[Zope] Zope.org Feature Request - Product Download Counter

[J. Atwood]

Yup... the ZODB does grow with each hit. Not much of course, but some. I am
sure for a site such as Zope.org it would not be unmanageable. They most
certainly have automated ways of packing the DB.

J

> From: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:05:24 -0700
> To: <zope@zope.org>, "J. Atwood" <jatwood@bwanazulia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope.org Feature Request - Product Download Counter
> 
> Of course the only problem with a hit counter is that high traffic requests
> mean continually writing the object into the ZODB each time it gets hit /
> downloaded, whatever. Thats why I release FSCounter which uses the file
> system. I would like to expand this to cover multiple objects...
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Atwood" <jatwood@bwanazulia.com>
> To: <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:17 AM
> Subject: [Zope] Zope.org Feature Request - Product Download Counter
> 
> 
>> It would be really nice to know how many people are downloading the
>> products. This would also be a great feature to add to the actual
>> Zope distribution. I know you could get this from the logs (easily)
>> but you could also add a small counter to the product 'view' method,
>> something along the lines of what is in the Simple Url products (BTW
>> one of my favorites) and make it something you can turn on or off for
>> your products.
>> 
>> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('hitcount', hitcount + 1)">
>> <dtml-call "propertysheets.public.manage_editProperties(REQUEST)">
>> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(url)">
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> J
>> 
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