Hi all, I’m building a website where you see a list of external links (like hackernews). There are no single-link pages (like an article page) just a homepage with all the links. Besides a featured image, title, subtitle, date, I also want to show that how many clicks received each link. This is …

You would have to use the increment function as a result of an Ajax call that is triggered on clicking a link.

I thought I should use the increment function. Since I’m not really familiar with Ajax call, can you please help me, how can I trigger the increment function with Ajax clicking a link? Thank you very much!

As you already experienced, without any condition, the increment function is triggered every time you reload the page, which is not what you want, since you only want to increment the counter if a link is clicked. I’ll get back to you regarding the Ajax call later today. If you are in a hurry and w…

I’m not in a hurry. I’m looking forward to your answer later today. Thanks:))

In your template, you can check if an Ajax request was made like this and then increment the likes: <?php if(r::ajax()) { $page->increment('likes'); } ?> In your footer (jquery version) <?php echo js('assets/js/jquery.js'); ?> <script> $(function(){ $('.showcase-link').on('click', functio…

Thank you for your help, but unfortunately it still don’t want to work… This is how my modified code looks like at the moment: <div id="grid" data-columns> <?php foreach($page->children()->visible()->flip() as $article): ?> <div class="box"> <a href="<?php echo $ar…

This code <?php if(r::ajax()) { $article->increment('clicks'); } ?> should be in the template of the page that is called (i.e. probably the article.php template in your case). Change $article to $page in the new location.

You’re awesome! It works! But I have a small problem… When a user clicks on my link, that doesn’t link to a page on my site, but it leads to an external page, like a Facebook post. So, I tried your version, and if I set it to link to one of my page, your solution works, but my goal is to immediate…

Hm, but in that case the linked post does not have a text file where the click can be incremented anyway? Where do you want to save that click?

They have a text file, that’s not a problem. The problem is that the user will never land on the article.php subpage. Imagine like this: I have a page with full of boxes (let’s call this page a blog page for convenience). The editor can add a new box to this blog page by creating a new subpage in …

Counting clicks on article links

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