[Plugin: Podpress] "Show Download Stats" not working

  • Resolved raymer

    (@raymer)


    14 years, 3 months ago

    I’m having the same problem that mia is having – stats aren’t showing any data. But I am also having a more basic problem (which is probably related) and so I thought I would start a new thread.

    In the podpress general settings, setting “Show Download Stats” to enabled doesn’t seem to do anything. I think in old versions of podpress that I used it wrote the number of downloads out after the download link in the post. That hasn’t happened for the last several versions. Sorry I can’t remember exactly which version I last saw it work in.

    How do these stats work, do they require write access to the plugin dir? Do they use the db?

    Thanks,
    Ray

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  • Thank you for the compliment!

    To log also the db error messages add some further lines in the podpress_function.php:

    for Counts Only:

    function podPress_StatCounter($postID, $media, $method) {
		global $wpdb;
		switch($method) {
			case 'feed':
			case 'web':
			case 'play':
				$sqlIoU = "INSERT INTO ".$wpdb->prefix."podpress_statcounts (postID, media, $method) VALUES ($postID, '$media', 1) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE $method = $method+1, total = total+1";
				printphpnotices_var_dump($sqlIoU);
				$result = $wpdb->query($sqlIoU);
				printphpnotices_var_dump($result);
				ob_start();
				$wpdb->show_errors();
				$wpdb->print_error();
				$err_msg = ob_get_contents();
				ob_end_clean();
				printphpnotices_var_dump($err_msg);
				break;
			default:
				return;
		}
	}

    If it is a multi site blog then add to the wp-config.php the conatnt ERRORLOGFILE and define the absolute path to the error log file e.g.
    define( 'ERRORLOGFILE', '/htdocs/myblogname/wp-content/plugins/podpress/errorlog.dat' );.

    For the Full logging method:
    the end of the podPress_StatCollector() function should look like this:

    printphpnotices_var_dump($query);
		$result = $wpdb->query($query);
		printphpnotices_var_dump($result);
		ob_start();
		$wpdb->show_errors();
		$wpdb->print_error();
		$err_msg = ob_get_contents();
		ob_end_clean();
		printphpnotices_var_dump($err_msg);
		return $wpdb->insert_id;

    BTW: I’m testing with a multi site installation and the WP ERRORLOGFILE shows that the backslashes you can see in the query string in the printphpnotices log file are not in the actual query string.

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