How to place blog stats on front page?

[carl_galloway]

Hi all,

Is there some way of putting some basic stats on the front page of my blog, such as;

1 date of last entry
2 total number of entries
3 number of comments
4 number of visitors this month or totally

I want to be able to include this in my template, and don't want to create a plugin. I think all this information should already exist within the database since I'm using the stats plugin already.

If it is possible, would I be able to create an html nugget? This wouldbemy preferred mthod, or would I need to call the serendipity hooks from within (say) index.tpl or entries.tpl.

Any help would be great.

Cheers
Carl[/list]

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This won't work without creating a sidebar plugin. The statistics plugin only gathers that data on the backend, not on the frontend, so you must make a similar plugin that reads the data and prints it in the sidebar.

I've created such a plugin and committed it to SVN of the 1.0 version. You can use this plugin in your current version as well. Just download all the files from here: http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/serendipi ... statistics

(basically you only need the serendipity_plugin_statistics.php and the lang_en.inc.php file)

Regards,
Garvin

[carl_galloway]

Garvin,

Thank you for that. I've installed your plugin on my site if anyone else would like to see how it looks in its defaul format.

Cheers
Carl

[BabeSpot]

Thnks for this plugin Garvin! I have one question; is it also possible to show how many users (visitors) there are currently at your site?

[garvinhicking]

I just added this function to the repository, where you can fetch it. Or download the next generated nightly tarball.

Regards,
Garvin

[BabeSpot]

And also a lot of thank-you's for this one Garvin !