Session, Popular post and View Count

I'm making a popular blogs display based on view count but I'm having problem using session.

My blog show method

  public function show(Request $request, $id)
    {
        if (Session::get('id') !== $id) {
            Post::where('id', $id)->increment('view_count');
            Session::put('id', $id);
        }

           $comments = Comment::where('blog_id', $id)->with('user')->orderBy('created_at', 'ASC')->paginate(4);
           $blogs = Post::where('id', $id)->with('user')->first();

a user only updates the count when he viewed it once
but when a user keeps changing between two blogs the two blogs keeps incrementing by 1.
can you please suggest the best and easiest way to solve this problem. thank you!

SaeedPrez

9 years ago

Best Answer

Level 50

There are many ways to do this,..

Basically you need to save the Id of all blogs the user views. So we need to a save an array or we could format the session keys like blog_1 where 1 is the Id.

$blogKey = 'blog_' . $id;

// Check if blog session key exists
// If not, update view_count and create session key
if (!Session::has($blogKey)) {
    Post::where('id', $id)->increment('view_count');
    Session::put($blogkey, 1);
}

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jericopulvera

9 years ago

Level 7

@Prez amazing!!! I've been testing this for hours and you solved it easily.

SaeedPrez

9 years ago

Level 50

@Eco012390 you'll get there, I've been doing this on and off for ~20 years.

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Osama-Mustafa

4 years ago

Level 1

I searched many articles on the internet, and found many complicated solutions, but your answer is great and works as expected ... Thank you very much

journey4tech

8 years ago

Level 1

how can we increment more than 1 time . i want to show more view count in my blog. please help me

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