Download Counter

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Hello, is there a way to add a bric that would allow me to insert a “download” link or button in a web page, and display a counter that would show the number of downloads already performed?

(Obviously) the bloc’s script would have to run on the server side (PHP?)

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Hello, it is only for your knowledge, or you want the public knows ?

I use for myself this tool, as you can have both situations:

There you have the instructions:

Install

  1. Download CCounter 2.0 from the official website at phpjunkyard.com. Unzip the file to a folder named, for example, downloadmanager .
  2. Upload the folder to your website via FTP or similar. And uploaded the folder to /assets/downloadmanager .
  3. Use your browser to open the folder you just uploaded. In the example, go to www.your-domain.com/assets/downloadmanager .
  4. Follow the installation steps that appear. Don’t forget to delete the folder named install .

Configure

To set up a counter for a specific file:

  1. Upload your file to your website and copy the url, for example: www.your-domain.com/files/awesome-file.zip
  2. Go to CCounter’s admin console by visiting its main folder on the browser. Following the example, open the URL www.your-domain.com/assets/downloadmanager and login.
  3. Open the New link page and submit your chosen link as a new link. Paste the URL of your file.
  4. After the URL is submitted, a special tracking URL is generated by CCount, for example www.your-domain.com/ccount/click.php?id=123 .

Use it

Every time you want to provide a link to your file ( <a href="..."> ) use the URL generated by CCount (e.g. www.your-domain.com/ccount/click.php?id=123 ). When a visitor clicks that URL, CCount will count the click and redirect the visitor to where the real file is (e.g. http://mydomain.com/files/myFile.zip ).

Display it

To show the number of clicks or downloads of a file you need to:

  1. Place the following code inside the <head> tag of the webpage where you want to display count statistics: <script src="https://www.your-domain.com/assets/downloadmanager/display.php"></script>
  2. Paste the next snippet exactly where you want the count to appear: <script>ccount_display('LINK_ID')</script> , e.g. <script>ccount_display('123')</script>

Hope it will help you…

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Hello @Pealco, Awesome tool! Thank you for sharing.

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