Gossamer Forum: Products: DBMan: Installation: Is it possible to register the number of hits of a record??

You would have to modify the record within the "long record" subroutine.

You could do it like this:

Code:
open (DB, "<$db_file_name") or &cgierr("error in modify_records.  
unable to open db file: $db_file_name.\nReason: $!"); 
  if ($db_use_flock) { flock(DB, 1); } 
  @lines = <DB>;	# Slurp the database into @lines.. 
close DB; 

LINE: foreach $line (@lines) { 
  if ($line =~ /^$/) { next LINE; }	 
  if ($line =~ /^#/) { $output .= $line; next LINE; } 
  chomp ($line);			 
  @data     = &split_decode($line); 
  if ($data[$db_key_pos] eq $rec{$db_key}) { 
    ++$rec{'Count'}; 
    $output .= &join_encode(%rec);	 
  } 
  else { 
    $output .= $line . "\n";		 
  } 
} 
open (DB, ">$db_file_name") or &cgierr("error in modify_records.  
unable to open db file: $db_file_name.\nReason: $!"); 
  if ($db_use_flock) { 
    flock(DB, 2)  or &cgierr("unable to get exclusive lock on $db_file_name.\nReason: $!"); 
  } 
  print DB $output;			 
close DB;

I would add this directly to the html.pl file, in the "long record" subroutine, either before or after the page prints out.

You would need to change the "$rec{'Count'}" variable above to whatever the name of your counter field is.

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JPD