BBClone

[johnqpublic]

Howdy,

There was a discussion a couple years ago about how to incorporate bbclone with cmsms.  There were instructions by Ted on one possible solution, but the file that was to be edited has, from what I can tell, been modified quite a bit since that time.  It looks like the difficulty is returning the title of the cmsms page for the counter script to operate properly.

Anyway, here is the earlier discussion:

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 258.0.html

Has anyone been able to get the counter script to work properly with CMS Made Simple?  Thanks for your time.

http://bbclone.de/

[kermit]

a bbclone module would be a nice addition for the project...

[cyberman]

There are some similar modules for CMSms (Visitors, Statistics ...).

[kermit]

There are some similar modules for CMSms (Visitors, Statistics ...).

i know that, and i've looked at them... but they are nothing like bbclone (no offense)... or even webalizer, awstats, etc....

cmsms uses many other open source projects, fckeditor, smarty, adodb, etc...  so i don't see the need to re-invent the wheel here. bbclone is the king of open source php-driven web site stats.. and no database either, so it should be fairly easy integrate... or provide the necessary tweaks in the core code to allow it's use outside of the cmsms admin panel.

[kermit]

it's too soon to know if it'll break, but at least it's recording data with page titles... AND it required a edit to the code in index.php (something i wanted to avoid)...  the one problem i can see right off the bat is the page links in the bbclone pages all point to the site root instead of to the individual page.. but at least it's sorta working.

anyhoo here goes..

extract bbclone to ./bbclone inside your site root.  (the downloaded zip file contained everything conveniently inside a folder 'bbclone', so extracting it from ./ did the trick here) -- add write permissions to ./bbclone/var and all the files in it except .htaccess -- modify bbclone config if desired.

edit cmsms's ./index.php to add the bbclone code, right after or right before (i don't think it matters) the echo of the page... 


echo $html;

// bbclone (these four lines -- the rest is just to show where it goes)
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $pageinfo->content_title);
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);

@ob_flush();

$endtime = microtime();


alternatively, you can use content_alias where noted in red. so long as cmsms requires unique page aliases, this'll work just fine. i figure my page aliases will remain the same, but a page title might change occasionally.. so this is the way i did it.

[cyberman]

bbclone is the king of open source php-driven web site stats..

Thanks for suggestion - don't know it before ...

For myself I'm using Google Analytics .

[kermit]

bbclone is the king of open source php-driven web site stats..

Thanks for suggestion - don't know it before ...

For myself I'm using Google Analytics .

some people choose not to give google any more data to mine than they're already getting on their own sites.

[johnqpublic]

edit cmsms's ./index.php to add the bbclone code, right after or right before (i don't think it matters) the echo of the page... 


echo $html;

// bbclone (these four lines -- the rest is just to show where it goes)
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $pageinfo->content_title);
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);

@ob_flush();

$endtime = microtime();


alternatively, you can use content_alias where noted in red. so long as cmsms requires unique page aliases, this'll work just fine. i figure my page aliases will remain the same, but a page title might change occasionally.. so this is the way i did it.

Thanks for the help, Kermit.  This seems to be working just fine.

[vilkis]

For those who like bbclone and want to include bbclone code in UDT and not in index.php for some reasons. I made some changes in some bbclone files and now it can be included in UDT.

[cyberman]

Maybe you can post the changes here ...

[vilkis]

Of course! In near future.

[vilkis]

So - I modified the following files:

constants.php         
mark_page.php       
conf/config.php       
lib/io.php

I did nothing else only made some variables global.  So if you find row with $GLOBALS - it's my modification        

These files come in next post.

[vilkis]

I can't see a php file type as allowed. So I added .txt extension to each file.
Vilkis

[vilkis]

Now UDT

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global $gCms;
$page_name =$gCms->variables['page_name'];
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $page_name);
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include(COUNTER);

should work.

Vilkis

[vilkis]

Well,  , the empty  files were attached - I reattached good ones.