PostViews plugin counts and does not show comment views

[Fraenkiman]

Hello all,

the PostViews plugin counts/- does not show visitor comment views.

Please add it to the milestone

Best regards Frank

[Fraenkiman]

Other findings discussed here.

Thought: check /fp-includes/core/core.fpdb.class.php regarding $q = $fpdb->getQuery(); $calc = $q->single;

[Fraenkiman]

When using PHP8.1 the following warning is stored in Serverlog:

Warning: Attempt to read property "single" on null in /var/www/html/flatpress-master-1106/fp-plugins/postviews/plugin.postviews.php on line 43

[azett]

Current status:

• Counting the views works fine; after activating the plugin and visiting a specific entry (not logged in), the counter file fp-content/content/[yy]/[mm]/entry_[yymmdd]-[hhmmss]/view_counter.txt is created and contains the number of views. With any further view, the counter value increases. So far, so good!
• However, the variable "views" does not seem to be assigned to Smarty properly. $smarty->assign('views', $v); on line 47 has no effect, {$views} is just not set in the template.

Needs further investigation!

[Fraenkiman]

Hi @azett,

as in most tricky cases, I can only shoot in the dark. My number of hairs on my head are not enough for a solid solution. We may need a new FP smarty plugin/smarty function that assigns the {$views} variable correctly.

these are my notes:

//core.fpdb.class.php
// do_action('entry_block', $id);

//Smarty 4
// $_FP_SMARTY->registerPlugin('block', 'entry_block', 'smarty_block_entries');

//Smarty 2
// $_FP_SMARTY->register_block('entry_block', 'smarty_block_entries');

function smarty_function_entry_block($params, &$smarty)
{
 return do_action('entry_block');
}

Best regards