Hits Snippet: How to output number of hits?

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Sal Baldovinos Reply #1, 11 years, 2 months ago

I want to output the string of hits. Doesn't seem to be a parameter within the snippet. I would like to have a data-hits="" attribute on a template for a getResources call.

Example output:

<li data-hits="55"> ... </li>

How can this be done?

Use Case: We're using getResources to simply output child resources. We've added data attributes to be read via jQuery to do live filters on the page. One of the filters is "most read". We want to be able to read the hits of each resource so they can be filtered by most read.

This question has been answered by sepiariver. See the first response.

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sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 2 months ago

I think it's [[+hit_count]].

tpl - hit_key, hit_count, and id (of hit) paramters will be passed into the provided chunk for each result.

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Sal Baldovinos Reply #3, 11 years, 2 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Aug 13, 2015, 12:25 AM

I think it's [[+hit_count]].

tpl - hit_key, hit_count, and id (of hit) paramters will be passed into the provided chunk for each result.

Tried the [[+hit_count]], but it pull the hits for the current page in and not the actual resource.

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Sal Baldovinos Reply #4, 11 years, 2 months ago

Current Setup:

html_footer (chunk)

[[!Hits? &punch=`[[*id]]`]]

tpl_case_study_module (tpl chunk for getResource ... code cleaned up for readability)

<li class="js-filter-grid-item" data-my-id="[[+id]]" data-page-hits="[[+hit_count]]" data-filter-tags="[[!TaggerGetTags? &resources=`[[+id]]` &rowTpl=`space_separated_tags`]]" data-title="[[+alias]]" data-pub-date="[[+createdon:strtotime:date=`%Y%m%d%H%M`]]" data-is-featured="[[+featured]]">
	<img class="tooltip-img" src="[[+page_image]]" alt="[[+longtitle]]">
	<h4>[[+menutitle]]</h4>
	<p>[[+introtext:ellipsis=`75`]]</p>
	<a class="link" href="[[~[[+id]]]]">View the Case Study</a>
</li>

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Sepia River Reply #5, 11 years, 2 months ago

This *should* work:

<li class="js-filter-grid-item" data-my-id="[[+id]]" data-page-hits="[[Hits? &hit_keys=`[[+id]]` &tpl=`hitTpl`]]" data-filter-tags="[[TaggerGetTags? &resources=`[[+id]]` &rowTpl=`space_separated_tags`]]" data-title="[[+alias]]" data-pub-date="[[+createdon:strtotime:date=`%Y%m%d%H%M`]]" data-is-featured="[[+featured]]">
	<img class="tooltip-img" src="[[+page_image]]" alt="[[+longtitle]]">
	<h4>[[+menutitle]]</h4>
	<p>[[+introtext:ellipsis=`75`]]</p>
	<a class="link" href="[[~[[+id]]]]">View the Case Study</a>
</li>

Assuming the "hitTpl" chunk has [[+hit_count]] in it, it should return the number of hits for resource [[+id]]. Let me know how it goes.

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scottblair Reply #6, 11 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Sepia!

This is what worked for reference:

data-page-hits="[[Hits? &hit_keys=`[[+id]]` &tpl=`hit_count`]]

Much appreciated,
Scott

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nuan88 Reply #7, 11 years, 2 months ago

Thank you for providing a working solution, and glad you got it going!

This is one particular function that I feel is so important, and MODX has yet to simplify and provide a standardized solution. Sepia River has worked very hard on this function (sincere thanks!) and has achieved much, but documentation and extendability are both limited, so far.

Plus I love going through recent posts and encountering your colleague's great handle. Keep in touch as ya'll progress!

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