By Daniel_Hatcher on

Just a quick question, i have a table called node_counter in my database, only it is empty. What is it used for and how would i go about using it in a Module?

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nancydru
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Try enabling the statistics module (core). It shows how many times a node has been viewed, and you can set that to display automatically.

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nexus7 commented

With Drupal 5.1 I have done this and node_counter doesn't update with a new node that's why nodes never had a value to show is this an error or only my misconfiguration problem???

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My database that I used statistics on has values in there. Are you sure you have the statistics module turned on? Do you see a "Recent Hits" entry under Admin >> Logs?

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nexus7 commented

This was a misconfiguration, sorry :)

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Wutimer commented

What was the misconfiguration? We're having the same issue in a Drupal 6.2 version.

node_counter is empty.

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e302us commented

go to /admin/logs/settings, enable counter

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jaredeckersley commented

At what point does an entry get inserted into node_counter?

We have setup 2 mysql accounts: 1 for inserting nodes and node revisions, and the other for the public facing web server. It appears that entries are being made in the node_counter table the first time nodes are visited. While this is ok, I would like to restrict the public facing account to updates only. Is this a configuration setting?

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kevinquillen commented

This also is not working for me. I can't find any setting for it other than Enable Counter.

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aborg commented

go to
admin/reports/settings
and turn on counter checkboxes

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bagusbean commented

I went to my /admin/logs/settings and enabled both node and access logs and it seems to be working.

There's a link to /admin/logs that has lots of stuff, but nothing that I see is purely "Nodes".

THere's /admin/logs/pages that seems to report on all url's hit. I really just want Forum statisitics.

I looked in my node_counter table and it actually seems to only be recording hits to nodes.

Where is the front end for looking at what's in there?

Thanks,

Bagus

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ccshannon commented

FYI readers, If you try to browse to admin/logs/settings you'll get a 404.

It's admin/reports/settings

It can also be found by navigating to Administer >>> Reports >>> Access log settings

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It's "logs" in Drupal 5 and "reports" in Drupal 6.

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