[Resolved] Page views counter with User custom field

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[chantellel]

Hi

I have about 300 Authors on the site now.
However I am trying to make a script where the Authors can see how many times their profile has been viewed.

Now, obviously because author.php isnt a page or post with a meta, I figured the view count would need to be saved in the users_meta instead.

So I created a field called wcpf-count for the users.

How would I go about this?

I thought about something like this

add_action('wp', function() {

if( is_author() ) {

global $authordata;

$user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$meta = get_user_meta( $post->ID, 'wcpf-count', TRUE );
$meta = '' !== $meta ? explode( ',', $meta ) : array();
$meta = array_filter( array_unique( $meta ) );

if( ! in_array( $user_ip, $meta ) ) {

array_push( $meta, $user_ip );
update_user_meta( $authordata->ID, wcpf-count', implode(',', $meta) );

}

}

});

Can you advise please

[Christian Cox]

Hi, I can show you how to save some value in a User profile custom field using PHP, and how to retrieve that value from a User profile custom field using PHP.
Your code:

$meta = get_user_meta( $post->ID, 'wcpf-count', TRUE );

Is $post->ID accurate here? I think not. You need an author's User ID, not a post ID.

Example:

$meta = get_user_meta( 12345, 'wcpf-count', TRUE );

The variable $meta will contain the value of the wpcf-count field in the profile of User ID 12345. Replace 12345 with the correct User ID, or a variable representing the correct User ID. Try hard-coding a value first, then replace that with a variable and test again.

Your code:

update_user_meta( $authordata->ID, wcpf-count', implode(',', $meta) );

You have a syntax error here. The second parameter, wpcf-count, is not correctly surrounded by quotes.

Example:

update_user_meta( 12345, 'wcpf-count', 'some value' );

Replace 12345 with the correct author's ID, and replace 'some-value' with the correct value to store in the custom field. Try hard-coding the values first, then once things work as expected replace the hard-coded values with variables.

[chantellel]

Can I put this in my Author.php?

Im already called $curauth->ID at the very top of the page using

$curauth = (isset($_GET['author_name'])) ? get_user_by('slug', $author_billing_company) : get_userdata(intval($author));

Here is what I now have

add_action('wp', function() {

if( is_author() ) {

global $authordata;

$user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$meta = get_user_meta( $curauth->ID, 'wcpf-count', TRUE );
$meta = '' !== $meta ? explode( ',', $meta ) : array();
$meta = array_filter( array_unique( $meta ) );

if( ! in_array( $user_ip, $meta ) ) {

array_push( $meta, $user_ip );
update_user_meta( $curauth->ID, 'wcpf-count', '1' );

}

}

});

I have added it to my author.php But the script does not do anything

[Christian Cox]

Can I put this in my Author.php?
Again, I can tell you how to use the methods get_user_meta and update_user_meta to modify User custom fields.