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Taken over from Igor Kromin

This tutorial shows you how to use the LastEntries plugin and the PostViews plugin to see at a glance how many views the entries have had. This hack requires the PostViews plugin to be enabled.

Changed the file fp-plugins/lastentries/plugin.lastentries.php as follows:

Note that the first and last lines shown here are already in the file, so only the lines between the comments are relevant:

		$link = get_permalink($id);
 
		// --- new code: reads out file from PostViews plugin ---
		$dir = entry_dir($id);
		if (!$dir) return;
		$f = $dir . '/view_counter' . EXT;
		$v = io_load_file($f);
		if ($v === false){
		$v = 0;
		}
		// --- end new code: reads out file from PostViews plugin ---
 
		$string .= '<li>';

Then, a few lines further, the line directly above the $count++ line must be changed as follows:

		// --- modified line below: adding the number of views ---
		$string .= "<a href=\"{$link}\">{$entry['subject']} ({$v})</a></li>\n";
 
		$count++; // <-- existing code, do not modify

The result is something like this:

The entry view count is shown in brackets next to the entry name.