[support] Download Tools module or file counter module

Rolf Kutz rk at vzsze.de
Tue Oct 25 19:25:30 UTC 2011


On 25/10/11 10:10 -0500, Jim Ruby wrote:
>Anyone know of a way to get a count of files that have been downloaded other
>then the public file conter module as this one uses a php link to count the
>file and makes the links to long. It looks like Download Tools and the file
>counter module are not ready for d7 yet.

If you do deep linking, your only help are the
webserver logs, since no java script will be
loaded. Analytics software also fails if people
block them (ghostery) or disable java script.

An alternative would be to use aliases or short
links and somehow count these:

http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect
http://drupal.org/project/shortlink

regards
Rolf

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