Quick Note: This module shows stats about other sites, it does not collect or display statistics about your own Pligg site.

This module requires cURL to connect to 3 separate websites to gather stats about the sites that stories are linked to on your site. If a story set up a source URL in step 1 of submission this module will activate and display the stats listed below on the story page. See the attached screenshot for a demonstration of what the stats block looks like.

• Google Pagerank - This stat will sometimes return a negative number or no result, in that case it is hidden from view
• Alexa Rank
• Domain creation date, according to Alexa.com
• Number of Google indexed pages
• Number of Incoming links, according to Google
• Estimated unique visitors a month, according to Compete.com
• Estimated total visits a month, according to Compete.com

This module will automatically embed itself into the story page and float to the right of the story content area. Edit the /templates/style.css file for this module to adjust the positioning or site_stats_init.php to use another module hook.

One last note is that this module WILL SLOW the load time of your story pages. There is no caching built into this module, so every time that the a page is requested that uses this module (the story page) it tries to connect to 3 different websites for the statistics. For best results you should either remove some portions of this module to reduce the number of pages it connects to, or you could build a cache feature so that it doesn't need to request stats on every page load.

[Runnertalk]

Looks intresting. Thank you for this.

[Katryne]

Hello !

I will try to attach a french lang.conf file.

I have 2 questions : how can I cope with French accentuated letters ? They just cannot be displayed and I have to translate "indexed" by "indexees" instead of "indexées".

Second question is about stats by cCompete : when Compete cannot find any stats for the site, instead of "no data found for the site", I get a huge error message, for instance :

Classement 4,307,710 sur Alexa.com

517 pages indexees par Google

38 liens entrant - estimation

-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> // must be included before jquery var $j = jQuery.noConflict(); // compete.com urls var media_host = 'http://media.compete.com'; // subdomains var snapshot_site = 'http://siteanalytics.compete.com' var main_site = 'http://www.compete.com' var member_site = 'https://my.compete.com' var reftools_site = 'http://referralanalytics.compete.com' var searchtools_site = 'http://searchanalytics.compete.com' var toolbar_site = 'http://tools.compete.com' // ! TODO: add try_catch block *INSIDE* function() {} $j(document).ready(function() { // site search generate_search_dropdown("site_profiles"); update_login_logout_link(); master_load(); // Apply transparency effect to PNGs for IE6 $j('body').supersleight({ shim: '/site_media/images/transparent.gif' }); }); div.ui-dialog div.popup-help-dialog span.definition { font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.2em; color: #333333; } Site Profile Error | Compete register visiteurs uniques mensuels - estimation

[Yankidank]

Originally Posted by Katryne

Hello !I have 2 questions : how can I cope with French accentuated letters ? They just cannot be displayed and I have to translate "indexed" by "indexees" instead of "indexées".

When translating a module file to another language you should append your language to the lang.conf file name. So in this case I've renamed your file to lang_french.conf. This way if a site has set their language to "French" it will automatically use this langauge file for this particular module.

Thanks your your contribution, I had to convert the document to UTF-8 to allow for accent characters to be saved. I attached the language file to this post, you can try to re-download it and make any corrections concerning those character accents that you were not able to add before.

I've fixed the bug caused by sites that don't have any data from Compete.com. Please download version 0.2.

[Katryne]

Well, my Pligg does not like the renaming of the lang file. Maybe because I did not set correctly beforehand the language to be used. If I let the name of the lang file being : lang_french.conf, here is what I can see below every story title :

Warning: filemtime() [function.filemtime]: stat failed for ././modules/site_stats/lang.conf in /homepages/18/.../htdocs/diggg/internal/template.config_loader.php on line 25

If I set the name back to lang.conf, everything is OK and I get all the é and the è that I want.

Can you explain to me how you can "convert the document to UTF-8" ? I have a similar problem with an other module and I'd like to solve it.

[Yankidank]

I use Notepad ++ for editing documents. Below is a screenshot for setting the document to UTF-8. If a document is already encoded as UTF-8 you shouldn't have a problem. My attached document should read as UTF-8 so you should be able to write those accents using it.

Make sure that your language file is /languages/lang_french.conf and that you set the site language to 'french' at Admin > Configure > Misc > Site Language. Then clear your template cache.

[Katryne]

I just tried the new version 0.2 and i still have the problem with Compete.

And I confirm that my Pligg cannot display correctly if I do not delete the original lang.conf and rename the lang_french.conf to lang.conf.
here is the error message that I get otherwise :

Warning: file_get_contents(././modules/site_stats/lang.conf) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/18/.../htdocs/diggg/class.config.php on line 49
Could not open ././modules/site_stats/lang.conf

Thanks for being so quick to react : I can hardly follow your modifications ...

[Katryne]

Make sure that your language file is /languages/lang_french.conf and that you set the site language to 'french' at Admin > Configure > Misc > Site Language. Then clear your template cache.

I hat already done all that. Everything is OK just as you write it. My lang file is indeed lang_french.conf, and the site language was already settled to french in site language and I just hammered on my keyboard several times to clear the the template cache. And still the lang_french.conf does not work.

Thank you for the notepad trick. I use the soft and had noticed the command, but never used it.

[Yankidank]

I tested the language switch myself so I know it works as long as you do as I described. I may not have been clear on this, but you don't need to rename the lang_french.conf language file for the module. So to demonstrate there should be a file /modules/site_stats/lang_french.conf. Then if your site is set to "french" it should automatically grab that file. And as I mentioned in an earlier post you will have to clear your template cache before it will show any changes.

I also can't reproduce the original problem that you reported. After I updated the module to 0.2 it fixed all errors caused by Compete.com.

[coockoosnest]

This stuff could have been really valuable, but the problem is that it is based on compete.com informations, which is far from reality -( i used it for a long time but couldn't go for long and switched to semrush and keywordspy. btw guys from semrush also have addon like the one in this topic, called seoquake.. pretty useful one