[pmwiki-users] TotalCounter upgrade zeross my prior page counts

IchBin weconsultants at gmail.com
Sat May 12 13:43:39 CDT 2007


IchBin wrote:
> I am using the Cookbook:TotalCounter 1.5 recipe. Using 
> ?action=recipecheck, which is fantastic, told me there is a newer 
> version of that recipe., I have tried to upgrade to the newer 1.8a 
> version but I find that the newer recipe resets all of my pages counts.
> 
> Is there some way to update to the newer TotalCounter recipe without 
> losing all of the prior page counts?
> 

OK, so I looked at the code and compared the differences between 
Cookbook:TotalCounter 1.5.to and the newer Cookbook:TotalCounter 1.8a. I 
found the file names for amassing the totals and its lock file names 
where changed:

    From: v1.5  $file =  .total.counter
	 v1.5  $lock =  .total.counter.lock

    From: v1.8a $file =  totalcounter.stat
	 v1.8a $lock =  totalcounter.lock


The recipe page says in red lettering: "Bug of deleted statistics is 
fixed!". This may have been because of locking or some other enhancement 
that was added. There is no mention on how to migrate from a prior 
version to 1.8a. I did not see the php script document this file name 
change. Well at least I did not find it.

I found that if you either rename the old files to the new names or 
change the code to point to these two old files all works and counts are 
maintained between these particular versions. Not sure if that should be 
mentioned on the recipe page but that is what I found out about my 
migration problem. I am not using the 'GEOIP' option.

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