What is your approach to rank Most Popular in eZP?

Sunday 01 August 2010 10:49:15 am

There's a cronjob that reads Apache logs and updates the view_count value. More info here:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/features/cronjobs/the_cronjob_scripts#updateviewcount
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions/view_top_list

Or you can make a custom extension with an increment_view_count operator that receives an object id and increments the view_count value, and put it on the full view template.
And if you want to rank the most popular in the past X days, then you'll have to create a new table with columns contentobject_id, view_count, and date. The increment_view_count would increment the view_count column or insert a new row (if it's the first hit of the day) and you'll have to create a fetch function or an extended attribute filter that fetches the most viewed objects in the past X days.

http://ez.no/ezpublish/documentation/development/extensions/template_operator
http://ezpedia.org/en/ez/custom_fetch
http://projects.ez.no/types/ez_publish/extended_attribute_filter