"hit" counter for panels

Hello,

I wanted this feature too, it's very usefull as i'm using this module to build a lot of pages in my site.
Thanks very much for Panels module.

to Dinis: You are using some workaround to achive this?

Hi Danielle, thanks for the reply

I'll implement something like your workaround while we don't have the "clean" solution.
I expect that someone give a look to this one.

Thanks again,
Rafael

This probably wouuld be more of a CTools feature for the page manager.

Actually, that workaround isn't *too far* from the appropriate solution.

The best solution is to module after statistics.module. For reference, this is how statistics tracks:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_exit().
 *
 * This is where statistics are gathered on page accesses.
 */
function statistics_exit() {
  global $user, $recent_activity;

  drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_PATH);

  if (variable_get('statistics_count_content_views', 0)) {
    // We are counting content views.
    if ((arg(0) == 'node') && is_numeric(arg(1)) && arg(2) == '') {
      // A node has been viewed, so update the node's counters.
      db_query('UPDATE {node_counter} SET daycount = daycount + 1, totalcount = totalcount + 1, timestamp = %d WHERE nid = %d', time(), arg(1));
      // If we affected 0 rows, this is the first time viewing the node.
      if (!db_affected_rows()) {
        // We must create a new row to store counters for the new node.
        db_query('INSERT INTO {node_counter} (nid, daycount, totalcount, timestamp) VALUES (%d, 1, 1, %d)', arg(1), time());
      }
    }
  }
  if ((variable_get('statistics_enable_access_log', 0)) && (module_invoke('throttle', 'status') == 0)) {
    // Log this page access.
    db_query("INSERT INTO {accesslog} (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) values('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, '%s', %d, %d)", strip_tags(drupal_get_title()), $_GET['q'], referer_uri(), ip_address(), $user->uid, session_id(), timer_read('page'), time());
  }
}

So the access log can track total hits. Creating something similar to node_counter for variants would not be too difficult, and you can use page_manager_get_current_page() to see if a page was hit and which handler was used, etc. An initial version of this module wouldn't take too long, though to be truly useful it probably also needs integration.

I'm unsure if such a module should actually ship with page manager or if page_manager_statistics should be a separate module.

Does anyone want to work on this? If I'm handed a working module I may well consider including it.

Closing this issue as outdated as Drupal 6 ctools is not supported. If this issue is relevant for Drupal 7, feel free to re-open and mark for Drupal 7 (or 8)