Extension:ClickCounter

MediaWiki extensions manual

Click Counter Release status: beta
Description	Add some functions for counting user's clicks on predefined links
Author(s)	EnricoDagatalk
Latest version	0.1 (2009-05-20)
MediaWiki	1.11+
License	No license specified
Download	see below
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Download instructions

You can download the zp file here: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/clickcounter/clickcounter-0.1.tar.gz

Installation

To install this extension, Uncompress the tarball first launch the SQL in the /db/createtable.sql file to create the table for hosting the click logs, then add the following to LocalSettings.php :

#add configuration parameters here
#setup user rights here
require_once("extensions/ClickCounter/includes/CC_Setup.php");

and copy directory "ClickCounter" from the tarball to "extensions/ClickCounter" of your Mediawiki installation

Requirements

• MediaWiki version 1.11+
• MySQL 5+

Functionalities

Two new parser functions are provided by this extension:

{{#countit:<link> |<message>}}

to register the user's link, and

{{#getcount:<link>|}}

to retrieve the number of clicks for a certain link.

Administrator can see a complete list of click counts (link+number) from the Special page Special:CountSummary.