<accessed> generates an access counter that shows how many times the page has been accessed. In combination with the <gtext> tag you can generate one of those popular graphical counters.

A file, AccessedDB, in the logs directory is used to store the number of accesses to each page. Thus it will use more resources than most other tags and can therefore be deactivated in the Main RXML parser module. By default the access count is only kept for files that actually contain an <accessed> tag, but that can also be configured.

Attributes

add=number

Increments the number of accesses with this number instead of one, each time the page is accessed.

addreal

Prints the real number of accesses as an HTML comment. Useful if you use the cheat attribute and still want to keep track of the real number of accesses.

capitalize

Capitalizes the first letter of the result.

cheat=number

Adds this number of accesses to the actual number of accesses before printing the result. If your page has been accessed 72 times and you add <accessed cheat=100> the result will be 172.

factor=percent

Multiplies the actual number of accesses by this factor.

file=filename

Shows the number of times the page filename has been accessed instead of how many times the current page has been accessed. If the filename does not begin with "/", it is assumed to be a URL relative to the directory containing the page with the <accessed> tag. Note, that you have to type in the full name of the file. If there is a file named tmp/index.html, you cannot shorten the name to tmp/, even if you've set Challenger up to use index.html as a default page. The filename refers to the virtual filesystem.

One limitation is that you cannot reference a file that does not have its own <accessed> tag. You can use <accessed silent> on a page if you want it to be possible to count accesses to it, but don't want an access counter to show on the page itself.

lang=ca es_CA hr cs nl en fi fr de hu it jp mi no pt ru sr si es sv

Will print the result as words in the chosen language if used together with type=string. Available languages are ca, es_CA (Catala), hr (Croatian), cs (Czech), nl (Dutch), en (English), fi (Finnish), fr (French), de (German), hu (Hungarian), it (Italian), jp (Japanese), mi (Maori), no (Norwegian), pt (Portuguese), ru (Russian), sr (Serbian), si (Slovenian), es (Spanish) and sv (Swedish).

lower

Prints the result in lowercase.

per=second minute hour day week month

Shows the number of accesses per unit of time.

prec=number

Rounds the number of accesses to this number of significant digits. If prec=2 show 12000 instead of 12148.

reset

Resets the counter. This should probably only be done under very special conditions, maybe within an <if> statement.

This can be used together with the file argument, but it is limited to files in the currentd directory and subdirectories.

silent

Print nothing. The access count will be updated but not printed. This option is useful because the access count is normally only kept for pages with actual <accessed> tags on them. <accessed file=filename> can then be used to get the access count for the page with the silent counter.

upper

Print the result in uppercase.

since

Inserts the date that the access count started. The language will depend on the lang tag, default is English. All normal date related attributes can be used. See the <date> tag.

type=number string roman iso discordian stardate

Specifies how the count are to be presented. Some of these are only useful together with the since attribute.

Example

This page has been accessed
<accessed type=string cheat=90 addreal>
 times since <accessed since>.