[pmwiki-users] PMwiki, counting page hits and flow off the login pages

[Foster Schucker]

Petko, your fix worked, thanks.  I created a page that shows if a person 
was able to log in.  I need to spend some more time looking at the 
?action= items.

Moni, thanks for the pointer to TotalCounter.  It looks like it has 
everything I want, but will take some time to digest the manual so I get 
everything set up correctly.

Thanks

On 11/26/2020 1:36 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
> On 26/11/2020 17:32, Foster Schucker wrote:
>> First On my left margin I have
>>
>> * [[Main/HomePage]]
>> * [[Main/WikiSandbox]]
>>
>> * (:if authid:) User: [[Main.{$AuthId} | {$AuthId}]] (:else:)
>> [[Site.AuthUser | Please login]] (:ifend:)
>>
>> %sidehead% [[PmWiki/PmWiki]]
>>
>> This shows either the link to Site.Authuser so the user can log in, or
>> their user name as a link to their personal home page.
>>
>> After they do the authentication is there a way to send them off the
>> Site.Authuser page to some place else?  The page they were on before
>> they did the Auth would be best but Main.{AuthId} or  Main.HomePage
>> would also work.   I'm kind of following along in scripts/authuser,
>> but not seeing how I can get it to return to do a redirect.
>
> Yes, you can link to [[Main.HomePage?action=login]] however maybe you 
> don't need to -- a login form will appear when the user tries to 
> access a restricted area or action.
>
> BTW by default the wikigroup for user profiles is "Profiles", not 
> "Main". This group is linked when a user signs with 3 or 4 tildes ~~~ 
> or ~~~~ and there is a shortcut [[~Foster]] that also links to 
> Profiles/Foster.
>
>
>> Second question is there a way to count the number of times a page has
>> been accessed?   I found a cook book that seems to track edits, but
>> not just a plain read.  That cookbook seems to be plugging into the
>> list of functions that are called as part of the edit/update cycle.
>>
>> Having a page called Main.Pagecounts with a row for each  page name
>> and the access count would be fine, or a variable  that I could put in
>> the page to say "This page has been accessed {$Pagecount} times."
>
> No, there is no recipe that would be reasonably performant or 
> scalable. If you have only a few visitors per day, you may try some of 
> the recipes on the PmWiki Cookbook.
>
> I suggest using a web analytics software, see some free/open source 
> ones listed here:
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_web_analytics_software
>
> Some hosting providers offer web analytics/statistics in their hosting 
> packages, based on the server access logs -- check your hosting panel.
>
> Some people install Google Analytics, especially if they want to also 
> show ads. However, many visitors now have ad-blocking and 
> privacy-enhancing browsers or extensions, and external analytics may 
> be unreliable, notably with the providers that are known and popular.
>
> Petko
>
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