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Getting Hits to display actual page hits

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    ianman Reply #1, 12 years, 7 months ago
    I am using hits to on my Articles blog to show the 5 most visited paged, using the following:

    On sidebar of site pages 
    [[!Hits?
&parents=`28`
&limit=`10`
&outputSeparator=`,`
&chunk=`hitID`
&toPlaceholder=`hit`]]

[[!getResources?
&parents=`-1`
&resources=`[[+hit]]`
&sortby=`FIELD(modResource.id,[[+hit]] )`
&sortdir=`ASC`
&tpl=`pageTitle`
]]


    The chunk called hitID referenced in that call contains this
    [[+hit_key]]


    the pageTitle tpl contains this
     <li class="title"><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]">[[+pagetitle]]</a></li>


    and on all the pages I want to have counted I have added this
    [[!Hits? &punch=`[[*id]]`]]


    What I cant workout is how to show how many hits each page has received, I planned in my pageTitle template to show something like pagetitle (hits)
    I am sure this has been asked on here before but a search of the forum did not reveal anything about hits.
    Can anyone point me in the right direction.

    Cheers

    Ian
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      sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 7 months ago
      It looks like you need to use the [[+hit_count]] placeholder somewhere in there.
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        ianman Reply #3, 12 years, 7 months ago
        Quote from: sottwell at Feb 09, 2014, 01:19 PM
        It looks like you need to use the [[+hit_count]] placeholder somewhere in there.
        Thats what I thought so I added [[+hit_count]] at then end on my pageTitle tpl but it outputs nothing at all, maybe I need do to something with it first so it knows to count the page views.
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          BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 7 months ago
          Since &toPlaceholder is set to `hit` I think you'll need this to show the results:

          [[!+hit]]
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            ianman Reply #5, 12 years, 7 months ago
            Quote from: BobRay at Feb 09, 2014, 05:03 PM
            Since &toPlaceholder is set to `hit` I think you'll need this to show the results:

            [[!+hit]]
            OK got ya yes that is starting to work it outputs at the end of every line the resource ID's 38,61,72,57,44,41,55,70,58,43

            Looks like I need some kind of snippet to sort the output.

            I am thinking I should use http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/hitspage instead, I have not tried that yet as I saw that hits is a recent version so I presumed better but maybe not for me.

            Thanks for advice