how to display the number of views of an article with django

[JEAN MARLON MBAN]

how to display the number of views of an article with django

[Awa M. Kinason]

First, add a column on the article Model named "views_count" 

Then on the DetailView of the article, and on the GET method. add this:

 <code>  

article.view_count += 1
article.save()

# or  (asuuming you are using class based views)

self.object.view_count += 1
self.object.save()

 </code>

The problem with this method is that view_count will be updated each time the same person routes to that view or refreshes the page. To avoid this, you can add a list of 

counted articles in session. Something like

<code>

if 'counted_articles' not in session:
   session['counted_articles'] = []


# new line
if self.object.id not in session['counted_articles']:
   session['counted_articles'].append(self.object.id)
   self.object.views_count += 1
   self.object.save()

</code>

This will ensure that for each session, the article is counted only once. 

hope that helps, if you have any questions, feel free to post them below. 

[Binoy U]

Making the answer with the assumption that article is a modal.

You can add a field named count(PostiveIntegerField) and increment the count every time an article is viewed. I hope you have implemented article view as a DetailView or similar function view.

On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4:25:33 PM UTC+1, JEAN MARLON MBAN wrote:

[Awa M. Kinason]

I have made some typo errors in typing: view_count, please just adjust that in the code. So it should be "view_count" anywhere i mistakenly wrote "views_count"

On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4:25:33 PM UTC+1, JEAN MARLON MBAN wrote: