Picture clicks/views

gr

Joined: 2003-05-22
Posts: 17
Posted: Sat, 2004-05-29 11:00

I think the number of views/clicks on an image should be recorded even though the click counter is off. I've had my gallery running for a couple of years now, with a lot of visits. But when I turn on the click counter it starts at 0. That kind of sucks. The counter should always be on, and there should be a "show clicks" which could be set on or off.

Other than that this is a great piece of code. ;)
 
robert070612

Joined: 2003-08-05
Posts: 565
Posted: Thu, 2004-08-26 12:38

You can do that right now...
• enable clicks in the configuration wizard
• manually comment out the album/photo viewing code
...and that's exactly what I do.

best wishes, Robert
 
gr

Joined: 2003-05-22
Posts: 17
Posted: Thu, 2004-08-26 12:46

Thanks for the reply - but, by doing that the click counter doesn't show in any of the albums. I'd like it to be set individually for each album/user...
 
robert070612

Joined: 2003-08-05
Posts: 565
Posted: Thu, 2004-08-26 15:00

The most significant point of your post seemed to be to avoid the counter being zero'd... so turn on counting now and hide the display of clicks until you've got a hack. That way you won't start at zero. For the hack you might look at *albums_permissions.php* and try something on the lines of a new *Users who can view clicks* if/else clause?

best wishes, Robert
 
gr

Joined: 2003-05-22
Posts: 17
Posted: Thu, 2004-08-26 15:15

Thanks again, but I enabled the counters for all my albums/users a while ago, so it's up and running now. I wasn't and I still isn't looking for a hack. This post was placed in the "Suggestions and Feedback" category for a reason. :) I just didn't like the fact that every counter was at zero even though the albums/pictures had been up for a year.
 
robert070612

Joined: 2003-08-05
Posts: 565
Posted: Thu, 2004-08-26 15:41

I hear you. I'm in a similar boat.

I was trawling various clicking issues, as I am tasked with reloading some 7000 off 500px images with their more modern 300px versions... without zero'ing their legacy click counters. G1.4.4 has successfully done the intermediate filesize and thumbnail images but won't handle the full size legacy images.

Having said that I am ambivalent about the value of their clicks, well, clicks in general. I've noticed, indeed directly monitored on occasions, a somewhat *flock of sheep* trait in browsers (the human type not the software ones). When faced with a field of thumbnails, some of which are effectively underlined by clicking totals, they subjugate their own intelligence, curiosity, tastes, individuality and blindly click away at the largest totals. Such unexpected totals that have probably been built up by similar flocking behaviour;~/ [that's a sheepish grin]

So, I would be in the boat that wanted to selectively switch *off* the clicks;~)

I somehow think your answer, should one arrive, is quite likely to be of the flavour *Wait for G2 to do this*. I don't actually know if it actually does but I'd guess its database approach would be amenable to this sort of thing. You could try raising it in the G2 forum and see if you can get it hooked into the development track.

Good luck with your clicking thread:-)

best wishes, Robert