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1. deko
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   the last line in my footer.php is a call to an external script:

   <?php @ include '/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/myscript.php'; ?>

   so myscript.php runs with each page view.

   What I want to do is pass the current post name or page name with the script. Something like this:

   <?php
   $viewed = get(post_name);
   @ include '/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/myscript.php?id=$viewed';
   ?>

   The goal is to log all page views so I know which is most popular.
   Is this possible? Any suggestions?

2. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Wouldn't $post->post_title contain what you want?

3. deko
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Thanks MichaelH. I'll give it a toss and let you know.

   I've looked at a number of wp plug-ins but all I really want are the top 5 pages, sorted by page views, and the ability to insert these stats wherever I want on my blog.

4. deko
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   While $post->post_title certainly does return the post title, the problem is passing it to my script.

   This code doesn't work:
   

   <?php
   $viewed = $post->post_title;
   @ include '/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/myscript.php?id=$viewed';
   ?>

   It would work if I called it like this:
   

   $viewed = $post->post_title;
   @ include 'http://www.myblog.org/myscript.php?id=$viewed';
   ?>

   but I don't want my myscript.php publicly accessible.

   There must be an easy way to log post_title on each page view...

5. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Might want to look at some of the popular post plugins to get an idea of how they do it...

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/popular

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