Log how many times a picture has been viewed

[anti]

Add a new field 'views' to pictures table and each time a picture is viewed (level == picture) increment the counter.

[anti]

Coppermine keeps ID-s of last 4 viewed images in a cookie and increases the counter only if the current picture is not one of those 4. This will will fail, if the client has disabled cookies.

Gallery 1 keeps ID-s in the sessions, also cookie based and will not work with cookies disabled

Maybe we can do IP based solution, like storing last X IP-s from which the image has been viewed and increase the counter only if the current IP is not one of those.

Granted, this will not a very reliable count, think big corporate firewalls with hundreds of possible users with a single IP. But log file analyzis should be used for exact analysis anyway, this is just a simple counter.

And probably deserves an option to turn it on/off, precisely because the value is not an exact figure. Could even default to off.

[angus@…]

Your talking about unique views though.

I personally think that "view" is fine. If the same person views the same photo several times in a session - eg keep coming back for whatever reason, I would be okay with that.

Obviously want to stop something where a user can simply keep refreshing the same page over and over to generate "fake" visits though I guess.