Custom Page Stats

[ihsahn]

Would someone be willing to put together a stats plugin that tells you how many people are viewing a specific custom page at that time (exactly like the regular sub-boards) and or how many visits the page has received. I am able to use the regular stats for every other aspect of my forum but I really don't want to have to use a third party to track my stats, it would be great if someone was able to create this. 

Thanks,
Ihsahn.

[David Clark]

Hey ihsahn,

Unfortunately I believe a third party solution would be the only way to achieve that. When it comes to plugins, developers aren't allowed to create anything that automatically saves data when users load the page. When tracking data with a plugin key, it has to be some sort of user-initiated action that triggers it, like the pressing of a button. To give a specific example, I'll quote our CEO Patrick:

Nov 16, 2012 15:58:23 GMT -8 VS Admin said:

Example of acceptable plugin:
You want to create a plugin to track how many people +1 a topic. You create a thread key, and have a button users can click to +1 the topic. When the user clicks the button, you call the plugin key's set() function which triggers the AJAX call.

Example of a prohibited plugin:
You want to count how many pageviews a user has on a forum. Every time a page is loaded, you automatically call set() on a user plugin key to increment a count.

[ihsahn]

No worries David, I am sure in the future this will be taken care of but it's not a huge issue or anything like that. Thank you for getting back to me though.