It is great that k2 supports ajax. Although I have been using k2 for years, I just realized it and started using ajax to improve my k2 powered websites.

But I have had a problem.

On my page there are both item list from categories and a k2 content module showing the lasted item. I have made it so that when one of the items in the category is clicked, the item content in the module gets updated by ajax.
Live page is here, aoafinc.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=2&Itemid=150&lang=en-us It is under developed and mostly Chinese, but you get the idea.

It seems good but the problem is, the item hits won't increase. ( I had to use some javascript to fake the item hits number displayed under the title for now ) Is there anyway to solve this? I am thinking maybe I need to hardcode some PHP file so that every time the 'url+&format=json' gets displayed, item hits increased. But I really know very little about k2 core, so any direction or hints will be greatly appreciated!

As you can see the k2.js file uses the click event. Since the markup is generated after the loading of the page you should change the code to use the on() handler.

This will make the voting function available even if the elements are not loaded.

Thanks Sir but I'm asking about the item hits, a.k.a how many times the items have been viewed, not the item rates

Sorry my mistake.
The hits cannot increase since the page is not requested by Joomla!.
You can create a custom script which increases the hits column in the db.

Where $articleId would be the item's id. You can use this as a starting point.

Hello,

Where should I place this code?
Create a new php file?
And how can I call it?
Or somewhere else?

Thank you

Please do not double post.
It depends on what you want to achieve.
If you are loading items via AJAX or JSON you can look at this commit: github.com/joomlaworks/k2/issues/248

Or if you are using this is as a part of another module/ extension then you need to add this snippet to your code.

Finally if you just want to tinker with the db, you can increase the hits cell of the xx_k2_items table manually or with a mySQL script.

Sorry about the double post.

I just need to increase the number of hits on an article, automatically
When it is 10 hits to show 11, when 11 to show 12 etc.

I have to use a mySQL script.. automated.

thank you!

You can use this code (also you need to define $articleid)
and publish it in a K2 Tools module.

I really appreciate your help and quick replies.
I did that and nothing happens on the Article Hits.
Can you explain in (more) details how I can achieve that?

Article has 0 hits and the same after I published the module.

Thank you in advance

Make sure that the option to execute PHP code is enabled, furtemore make sure that the module is not cached. You can check that in the module's advanced settings.

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately is not working.
When you said 'Make sure that the option to execute PHP code is enabled,' where should I Find this?7
In the module or else?

Thank you

Yes K2 Tools (custom code functionality) has this option.

Hello Krikor,

I have done everything you said and unfortunately the script doesn't work.
I think that it cant find article id.
I tried to increase 1 to 100 and see if the hits change, but no luck.
I have also enabled cloudflare, is this a problem?

Thank you

That could be an issue since the output is cached The user is seeing a page generated from Cloudflare and not the actual item.

This is a known Joomla! issue (hits being cached) and I do not think that there is a solution available apart from that script.

Hello again,

I think that there is another solution.
I managed to make some changes to the item.php on /website/templates/template_name/html/com_k2/templates/default
Around line 324 I add the codeThat multiplies the real hits by 8.5 or whatever you want.
and also changedits 2-3 lines below to display the "multiplied" hits.
In that way you can see the real hits at the administrator side of joomla and at the front the "multiplied" hits in item view.
The same can be done in category view in the same folder.
So, the database is not altered in any way, just the displayed hits.
Hope that work for others also.