How to get post/page name?

  • the last line in my footer.php is a call to an external script:

    <?php @ include '/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/myscript.php'; ?>

    so myscript.php runs with each page view.

    What I want to do is pass the current post name or page name with the script. Something like this:

    <?php
$viewed = get(post_name);
@ include '/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/myscript.php?id=$viewed';
?>

    The goal is to log all page views so I know which is most popular.
    Is this possible? Any suggestions?

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  • Wouldn’t $post->post_title contain what you want?

    Thread Starter deko

    (@deko)

    Thanks MichaelH. I’ll give it a toss and let you know.

    I’ve looked at a number of wp plug-ins but all I really want are the top 5 pages, sorted by page views, and the ability to insert these stats wherever I want on my blog.

    Thread Starter deko

    (@deko)

    While $post->post_title certainly does return the post title, the problem is passing it to my script.

    This code doesn’t work:

    <?php
$viewed = $post->post_title;
@ include '/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin/myscript.php?id=$viewed';
?>

    It would work if I called it like this:

    $viewed = $post->post_title;
@ include 'https://www.myblog.org/myscript.php?id=$viewed';
?>

    but I don’t want my myscript.php publicly accessible.

    There must be an easy way to log post_title on each page view…

    Might want to look at some of the popular post plugins to get an idea of how they do it…

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tags/popular

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