[support] D6: setting up a mantra counter

[sebastian]

The module "statistics" which is part of core should give you your 
counter. You can then also change the permission to decide who can see 
it [or everyone]...

This might be too simplistic though, as that would be based on a 
refresh. Not sure what method works best for mantras.

Otherwise you might consider having them type a phrase, over and over in 
a text-box. If the phrase is a match, the page loads with +1 counter. 
They would type a phrase, hit enter, type a phrase, hit enter etc.

Good luck.

On 2011-10-11 8:58 PM, Shérab wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> one of the site I'm administrating is the one of a tibetan buddhist center.
> In this tradition it is common to collect and gather mantras or prayers.
> So those who wnat recite prayers, count them and then the sum is
> computed.
>
> We would like to set up a counter on our site, so that everybody can say
> how many prayers or mantras they have recited.
>
> I'm wondering whether there are already solutions to handle this kind of
> things. I imagine that either it'd be automatic -- as soon as a person
> adds a number of mantras it is added to the collective counter, but then
> there'd have to be some sort of spam protection; or it could be manual,
> so there could for instance be a form where the person enters his/her
> e-mail and the number of mantras, and then the administrator of the site
> incremetns the counter manually. But actually none of these seems very
> satisfactory to me, so any suggestion would be warmly appreciated.
>
> Best wishes,
> Sherab.