How to make a view counter?

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Hello, I am new to Wix Velo and would like to create a view counter for a dynamic page.

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See this post: https://www.wix.com/velo/forum/community-discussion/views-counter

3

Your question is to general to give the right answer.

There are many ways of how to code a “view-counter” and it also depends on which elements you are using in your project.

-Do you use DATASETS?
-Do you use REPEATERS or TABLES or DYNAMIC-PAGES ?

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Yes I am using dataset and dynamic page, and I would like the counter to count the number of people going to the dynamic page.

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Hello just a quick reply, without testing. This could be the way how to do it…

$w.onReady(()=>{
    $w("#dynamicDataset").onReady(()=>{
        $w('#myButton').onClick(()=>{
            let currentItem = $w("#dynamicDataset").getCurrentItem();
            let viewCount =  currentItem.views + 1; 
            $w("#dynamicDataset").setFieldValue("views",viewCount); 
            $w('#dynamicDataset').save()    
        });
    });
});

You will have to improve the code.

Or even like this…

$w.onReady(()=>{
    $w("#dynamicDataset").onReady(()=>{
        
            let currentItem = $w("#dynamicDataset").getCurrentItem();
            let viewCount =  currentItem.views + 1; 
            $w("#dynamicDataset").setFieldValue("views",viewCount); 
            $w('#dynamicDataset').save()    
        
    });
});

—> “views” is a column in your DB where you will store all the views for every of dynamic pages.

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@russian-dima is possible to make this for unique viewers and not total? :slight_smile:

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@michaelstrauss307 For unique viewer, use wix-storage → local to store the user entry to prevent duplicates. OR by user IP (there are Velo examples to get user IP)

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you have Code please? I have o plan with Wix Code. Thank you :slight_smile:

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@michaelstrauss307 We recommend checking out some velo examples and learn code.

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