Hit Counter from Admin Section

[MAD_king]

Hi,

May someone can help me out?

I am trying to get the Hit Counter from the Admin section into the shop.

I tried it with following code, put it in the footer.tpl

<?php
echo '<div align="center"> Visitors: ' . $counter->fields['counter'] . '</div><br />' . "\n";
?>


but it shows only on the main page not on the other pages.
What made I wrong?

Using 1.38a


Thank you

[Ajeh]

Prior to displaying the counter you need to obtain the data from the counter table:

  $counter_query = "select startdate, counter from " . TABLE_COUNTER;
  $counter = $db->Execute($counter_query);
  $counter_startdate = $counter->fields['startdate'];
//  $counter_startdate_formatted = strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG, mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($counter_startdate, 4, 2), substr($counter_startdate, -2), substr($counter_startdate, 0, 4)));
  $counter_startdate_formatted = strftime(DATE_FORMAT_SHORT, mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($counter_startdate, 4, 2), substr($counter_startdate, -2), substr($counter_startdate, 0, 4))); 

[MAD_king]

Thank you some much. Sometimes I got some on my eyes.

[aly22]

I'd really like to do this, as well!
Where is footer.tpl?

And would the full code look like this:

<?php
  $counter_query = "select startdate, counter from " . TABLE_COUNTER; 
  $counter = $db->Execute($counter_query); 
  $counter_startdate = $counter->fields['startdate']; 
//  $counter_startdate_formatted = strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG, mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($counter_startdate, 4, 2), substr($counter_startdate, -2), substr($counter_startdate, 0, 4))); 
  $counter_startdate_formatted = strftime(DATE_FORMAT_SHORT, mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($counter_startdate, 4, 2), substr($counter_startdate, -2), substr($counter_startdate, 0, 4)));  
echo '<div align="center"> Visitors: ' . $counter->fields['counter'] . '</div><br />' . "\n";
?>

??

[chuck]

Okay, I have to rant ...

Why do people put hit-counters on their websites? It strikes me as only beneficial to stroke the site-owner's ego, and possibly amateurish.

It's just my opinion, but it seems to me that having a hit-counter is suitable for a MySpace site where teenagers are looking for proof of popularity.
But for a professional eCommerce website running a business which provides valuable products for its customers ... a hit-counter shown to customers seems like a distraction and counter-productive.

If you're trying to make it look like your site is popular when it isn't, why not spend energy on marketing and promoting your site, rather than staring at a hit-counter hoping it'll go up?

Okay, rant over.

[haredo]

Easy chuckie,
Do you need some coffee today.

[aly22]

Not helpful ;) my client wants a hit counter on her site.

[aly22]

ok found it - includes/templates/templates_default/common

Works great!

[gmrm]

How did you put the hit counter on there as my client wants one 2 :)

[aly22]

I put the code found above in Ajeh's post (above) at the end of this file:

yourstore/includes/templates/templates_default/common/tpl_footer.php

I placed it as follows, just below the line:
<!--eof- site copyright display -->

<?php
  $counter_query = "select startdate, counter from " . TABLE_COUNTER; 
  $counter = $db->Execute($counter_query); 
  $counter_startdate = $counter->fields['startdate']; 
//  $counter_startdate_formatted = strftime(DATE_FORMAT_LONG, mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($counter_startdate, 4, 2), substr($counter_startdate, -2), substr($counter_startdate, 0, 4))); 
  $counter_startdate_formatted = strftime(DATE_FORMAT_SHORT, mktime(0, 0, 0, substr($counter_startdate, 4, 2), substr($counter_startdate, -2), substr($counter_startdate, 0, 4)));  
echo '<div align="center"> Visitors: ' . $counter->fields['counter'] . '</div><br />' . "\n";
?>

and just above the very end of the file that looks like this:

<?php

} // flag_disable_footer

?>