danatkinson

That’s quite effective and offers error checking (which is something mine doesn’t!) so thankyou. I have given some consideration to creating a plugin which lets the user pick out text from db output pages (just yesterday I made something for some person who wanted Jason Kendall’s stats pulling from the MLB db here from this page).

It’s easy to do if you know what you’re looking for so I might give it a whirl. Don’t think the demand would be high though!

Thanks again!

Never mind. I’ve written one myself. This will display ONLY the number downloaded:

<?php
$document = file_get_contents('http://wordpress.org/download/counter/');
$patterns = array ('@<!DOCTYPE.*?<h1>@si', '@</h1>.*?</html>@si');
$replace = array ('');

echo preg_replace($patterns, $replace, $document);
?>.

Hopefully I’ve put the code correctly between the backticks.

Very nice! I agree though, it’s a little big, although it could be resized, but it has more than I want (just the number).

What would be nice is if there is a feed available so that you could get the actual download number (like the Firefox counter). Does anyone have a WordPress download counter feed at all?

Thanks.

I have added the Firefox button to my sidebar.php file (http://www.dan-atkinson.com)

Maybe that’s what you want…

If you want it in your sidebar then do the following…

Go to:
*Site Admin
*Presentation
*Theme Editor
*Choose ‘sidebar template’ to edit

Go down to the bottom and add something along the following lines:


<img alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/>


Obviously this is set up to be my affiliate so you can go to spreadfirefox.com and set up your own affiliation.

Hope this helps.

If not, sorry for confusing you further. 🙂