Item1128: Enhance CounterPlugin

Priority: Normal
Current State: Being Worked On
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Applies To: Extension
Component: CounterPlugin
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Reported By: WillNorris
Waiting For: WillNorris
Last Change By: BryanThale

• added better (imho) tag name, PAGE_COUNTER
• converted to use tag registration handlers
• keeps track of counter per topic
• can render the counter for any topic
• improved docs and examples

• rest handler to read the counter from an AJAX request or SSI
• counter for site as well as individual page counts
• optimization? force counts on only certain pages? (eg, "home", like some publish plugin's includetopics and excludetopics)
• file counter as a tie (to allow alternate stores like db, topic meta-data, topic form data, external file)
• perhaps move to pub, if "required" for external websites to "load" the data

• Make optionally session-aware so counter is only incremented the first time the page is viewed during a session so that simple page reloads don't bump the counter