[Zope] Help with Page Counter (Python script), please

[Uwe Schuerkamp]

Hi folks, 

please bear with me for now, I am an all-out Zope/Python newbie and
only recently converted from Perl/CGI development ;-)

I'm trying to implement a simple page request counter by checking for
a property named "requestCount" in a DTML method, adding the property
if not found, incrementing it otherwise and returning the new value.

I'm using the following python script: 

from Products.PythonScripts.standard import html_quote
request = container.REQUEST
RESPONSE =  request.RESPONSE

o = container.index_html
if (o.hasProperty("requestCount")):
   print "request count property found, incrementing"
   count = o.getProperty("requestCount")
   o.manage_changeProperties(requestCount=count+1)
   return o.getProperty("requestCount")
else:
   print "request count property NOT found, incrementing"
   o.manage_addProperty("requestCount", 1, "int")
   return o.getProperty("requestCount")


this script lives in the top level of my Zope installation. 

When I try to get a hit counter by including the script output as a
DTML-var like this:

<dtml-var incRequestCount>

in any subfolder the property of the Zope root folder is incremented
(where the Python script lives), but not the container of the current
object / container / folder whatever.

Say I have two index_html methods in subfolders, each using the 

<dtml-var incRequestcount> 

statement, there is only *one* counter associated with those methods
instead of two which get incremted separately.


Sorry for any confusion, I hope I have made myself clear! 

Cheers & thanks in advance for any help / slaps on the forehead, 

uwe 


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