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.
Hi Sherab, I don't know if this will be helpful or not but thought I would mention it. I recently started a project on Drupal called Personal Notes. It's a module available for D6 only right now; it lets registered members add one or more bits of information - title and text only - which displays on a block for them only. So using this module http://drupal.org/project/personal_notes each site member can keep their own mantra tally; I'm afraid it wouldn't help with automatically maintaining a total though. Marty At 09:58 AM 10/11/2011, 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. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Dear Marty, it is indeed not obvious yet to me whether your module will be helpful or not. As you said one of the problems would be to compute the total. Another problem is that we do not currently allow our members to register on our site. This would of couse help a lot because it would make it clear whom one trusts. I didn't even think about that so I'm grateful to you for having pointed that out. Thanks for having mentionned the module ! It's always good to know what exists ! Best wishes, Sherab. PS: assuming we'd allow registered users to update the counter, how should we do to allow them to do just that and nothing else ? One solution I see would be to create a special content type and to enable editing for just that content type for the registered users, but creating a content type just to have the right permissions seems a bit clumsy to me. Best wishes, Sherab.
Dear Sherab, I don't personally see anything wrong with creating a content type and role just so they can work together. However I don't see that solving the problem necessarily. You still have to rely on each person 1. registering 2. being accurate in their updates Thinking it over I bet you could make a view, and use it in this case like you'd use an excel spreadsheet to aggregate and total all the nodes of this content type. Marty At 10:43 AM 10/11/2011, Shérab wrote:
Dear Marty,
it is indeed not obvious yet to me whether your module will be helpful or not. As you said one of the problems would be to compute the total. Another problem is that we do not currently allow our members to register on our site. This would of couse help a lot because it would make it clear whom one trusts. I didn't even think about that so I'm grateful to you for having pointed that out. Thanks for having mentionned the module ! It's always good to know what exists !
Best wishes, Sherab.
PS: assuming we'd allow registered users to update the counter, how should we do to allow them to do just that and nothing else ? One solution I see would be to create a special content type and to enable editing for just that content type for the registered users, but creating a content type just to have the right permissions seems a bit clumsy to me.
Best wishes, Sherab. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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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.
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