Flarumite Simple Discussion Views

IanM

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Flarumite Simple Discussion Views

This is a maintained fork of michaelbelgium/flarum-discussion-views, largely based on the now removed v0.1.0-beta.8.3 tagged release.

Why?

One of the Flarum forums I manage, needed a lightweight discussion view tracker, with minimal settings and options. Turn it on and forget about it, so to speak.

Features

Tracks how many times a discussion has been viewed and displays it per discussion on the discussionlist. Note: does not track unique views, rather every view, both as guest and registered member
Adds 2 sorting options: popular and unpopular
Adds 1 event which developers can listen for: DiscussionWasViewed
Adds 1 new permission where people can (re)set the viewcount of a discussion (default to admins)
Uses view_count column created on the discussions table, so should not impact load performance
Identify known crawlers with an option to not increase the view count for their visit. Uses jaybizzle/crawler-detect for identification

Installation

Install with composer:

composer require flarumite/simple-discussion-views:"*"

Operator

👏🏽 IanM Great Work!
Testing it right away 👍🏽

After Testing:
Really, great work @IanM, I have always thought of a way to make the discussion views extension use less db space and you made it possible and highly flexible.
More Success 👏🏽@IanM

Operator

👏🏽MichaelBelgium You did a great work on your version.

But, there are more differences than that which you have mentioned;

It uses only one single column in DB and doesn't create another table; "discussion_views" in your case.

IanM Uses view_count column created on the discussions table, so should not impact load performance

Instead of your "Reset Views Count", ianm's version, "Set Views Count".

robinodds

IanM_ Can I switch from Not Simple version to yours without losing views data?

Gatsu

Hello IanM, with flarum beta13 and php 7.4, I got this deprecated error in discussion.
Can you fix it?
Thank you very much.

https://ibb.co/0JVLfL4

MichaelBelgium

Interesting, basicly this extension is the same result if u disable "track unique" views and disable "enable viewlist" in my extension. Thought I'd satisfy every use case with those settings, hence thats what settings are for 🤔

fakruzaruret

Has it permission for guests to see views stats?

Ralkage

I don't remember how I wounded up in this discussion but I can at least give you this to tackle item 1 on the to-do list 🤣 I was using it for a small project I started for my web dev portfolio and I had this discussion up for some reason 😅

Edit: And now I remember that I needed this extension for my community and realized that I was also looking for a way to shoo away robots 🤖 😆

wloot

robinodds Yes

IanM

0.2.1

0.1.1 (beta 13)

Fix deprecated warning (Gatsu )

Thank you @luceos for providing a patch so quickly! 😃

luceos

Patch provided: flarumite/simple-discussion-views5

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IanM Welcome back @IanM 🙂

Gatsu

IanM Wow this is more than efficiency! Thanks a lot.

IanM

0.2.3

Support for Flarum beta 15

Please note: This requires beta 15, it is not backwards compatible. 0.2.1 remains for beta 14 support, 0.1.1 for beta 13

IanM

0.2.4

Address issue where DiscussionWasViewed properties were not accessible flarumite/simple-discussion-views7

IanM

0.3.0

Beta 16 ready

Updating

composer require flarumite/simple-discussion-views:"*"
php flarum cache:clear

enricodx

I had the Simple extension installed and wanted to get back to the MichaelBelgium one wich I used before the beta 16. If I remove the Simple version and try to enable the MB, I get an error asking me to reload the page again and again. The error is the red banner in the bottom left of the page that says "Oops something went wrong".
If I revert to the Simple one, it works fine as usual. Did I broke something? There is a way to clean all the views history and start from scratch?

clarkwinkelmann

enricodx check the Flarum log file at <flarum>/storage/log for 500 error details.

It could also be a javascript error, in which case you need to look at your browser developer console to see the error message.

enricodx

clarkwinkelmann This is what I get in the console:

{
"status": 500,
"options": {
"url": "https://www.zerodx.it/forum/api/extensions/michaelbelgium-discussion-views",
"method": "POST",
"body": {
"enabled": true
},
"background": true
},
"xhr": {},
"responseText": "{\"errors\":[{\"status\":\"500\",\"code\":\"unknown\"}]}",
"response": {
"errors": [
{
"status": "500",
"code": "unknown"
}
]
},
"alert": {
"type": "error",
"content": [
"Oops! Qualcosa è andato storto. Aggiorna la pagina e riprova."
],
"controls": false
}
}

If I go in this link:

"url": "https://www.zerodx.it/forum/api/extensions/michaelbelgium-discussion-views"

I get {"errors":[{"status":"405","code":"method_not_allowed"}]}

IanM

1.0.0

Adds 'ignore crawler visits' option to prevent view counts increasing from bot visits to your discussions - off by default
Flarum 1.0

Note this version requires Flarum 1.0.0 or later only

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IanM I was previously using michael's extension and I removed it to install this but I am getting error Oops, Something went wrong! while enabling!