Display the click counts in frontend

Just in case someone is interested: I integrated a shortcode to handle the frontend display:

function surl_link_shortcode($atts) {
	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
	'id'  => '',		# ID of the url
	'title' => '', 		# Title of the url
	'clicks' => 0,		# display the counter
	'link' => 1,		# do we need a link?
	'linktext' => '',	# Which text should be displayed?
	'target' => '',		# Which text should be displayed?
	), $atts));

	# default values
	$url_id = ($id) ? intval($id)  : 0;
	$url_title = ($title) ? $title : '';
	$url_counter = ($clicks) ? true : false;
	$url_link = ($link) ? true : false;
	$url_linktext = ($linktext) ? $linktext : '';
	$url_target = (in_array($target, array('_blank','_self','_top'))) ? $url_target : '_self';
	$url_href = '';
	$url_count_value = 0;

	if(($url_id == 0) && ($url_title != '')) {
	    # no id found, but there is a title
	    $linkdata = get_page_by_title($url_title,OBJECT,'surl');
	    $url_id = $linkdata->ID;
	}

	$url_meta = get_post_meta( $url_id ); // array of metadata
	$url_href = get_permalink( $url_id ); // the permalink

	if(isset($url_meta["_surl_count"][0])){
		# is there a meta found?
		$url_count_value = intval($url_meta["_surl_count"][0]);
	}

	# initialize the shortcode output
	 $theShortcode = '';

	# Build the a tag if needed
	if($url_link && $url_href != ''){
		$theShortcode .= '<a href="'.$url_href.'"';
		$theShortcode .= ' target="'.$url_target.'"';
		$theShortcode .= '>';
	}

	# output either linktext or permalink
	if($url_linktext != ''){
		$theShortcode .= $url_linktext;
	} else {
		$theShortcode .= $url_href;
	}

	# Close the a tag if needed
	if($url_link && $url_href != ''){
		$theShortcode .= '</a>';
	}

	# ouput the counter, if needed
	if($url_counter){
		$theShortcode .= ' '.sprintf(_n('(%s click so far)','(%s clicks so far)',$url_count_value),$url_count_value);
	}

	return $theShortcode;
}

Just add it to the __construct():

add_shortcode('surl_link', array(&$this, 'surl_link_shortcode'));

After that you can use a shortcode like this:

[surl_link id=” title=” clicks=1 link=1 linktext=’Your linktext here’ target=’_self’]

Hope that helps someone 😉

Could you please post the shortcode you used?