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.