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Joomla 1.5
com_content

This change will display the number of times each article has been read (hits) in the Joomla 1.5 Article layout.

You can see how it looks on the article pages.

Open file joomla_root/components/com_content/views/article/tmpl/default.php in any text editor and go to line 130.
The table row were interested in looks like this -

 
<?php if ( intval($this->article->modified) !=0 && $this->params->get('show_modify_date')) : ?>
<tr>
  <td class="modifydate">
    <?php echo JText::sprintf('LAST_UPDATED2', JHTML::_('date', $this->article->modified, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC2'))); ?>
  </td>
</tr>
<?php endif; ?>

You need to add the conditional clause to display the number of hits for the article.
The <?php endif; ?> have been moved as well -

 
<?php if ( intval($this->article->modified) !=0 && $this->params->get('show_modify_date')) : ?>
<tr>
  <td class="modifydate">
    <?php echo JText::sprintf('LAST_UPDATED2', JHTML::_('date', $this->article->modified, JText::_('DATE_FORMAT_LC2'))); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <?php if ($this->params->get('show_hits')) : ?>
      <span style="float:right;">          
         Read : <?php echo $this->article->hits; ?> times
      </span>
    <?php endif; ?>
  </td>
</tr>

Now the number of times the article has been accessed (hits) is displayed.

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You would need to replace the 2 words with JText constants and and put them in the language files

Hi,
Great plugin! Works perfect!
But how can I translate the text before and after number of hits in multilanguage pages?

no good - tried on Joomla 1.5 - default installation - http 500 server error.

tks so much! Smile

It doesn't work for me Embarrassed

Thanks for the help Smile

Very informative, thanks.
Hint: if you change and nothing happens, check if your layout already has a com_content override at /template/layout_name/html/com_content/article/default.php

The problem is that the hits have to be stored somewhere and unless it's an article then the hits aren't stored.
Try making the link go to a page that has the pdf to download.
Then use my plugin http://www.gjcwebdesign.com/page-views-in-content.html to report the hits..

Thank you for your article. It works for me. Anyway, I am trying to look for a way to show it for specific link. For example, I add a pdf file for download. Then at the end of the link I want to show # of hits. See my example below:

(Title)WMC Annual Report Download ### times
Description: sdfjalsdfjoweuraslkdjfoqwejlaskhgfoqwjsadf
asfhasodfjwoeiufaskljdglkajdsfjasdklf

In this case, can you help me. (for joomla)

or just like your below

This will never work for a blog style home page as it's dynamic and the hits are not stored anywhere.
You could add a similar code to the com_content/views/frontpage/tmpl/default_item.php and have the number of hits per article.
Haven't tried it but it would be something like item->hits; ?>

Hi I have successfully done with the articles but not for the front page. I have tried to copy and paste your code to

C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\Joomla\components\com_content\views\frontpage\tmpl\default_item.php

on line 96. It works fine for the Last Update showing but hit counter does not work. Will you help me in this issue?

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