Tracking Resource Views with a TV and Plugin in Evolution CMS

Before analytics dashboards became the default answer for everything, many projects just needed one simple number: how many times was this resource viewed?

This older solution used a TV named hits and a plugin bound to OnLoadWebDocument. The plugin incremented the stored value and exposed the latest number through a placeholder.

Core plugin idea

$idtv = '12';
$id = $modx->resource->get('id');
$prosmotr = 0;

$tvs = $modx->getObject('modTemplateVarResource', array(
    'tmplvarid' => $idtv,
    'contentid' => $id
));

if ($tvs) {
    $prosmotr = $tvs->get('value');
    $prosmotr++;
    $tvs->set('value', $prosmotr);
    $tvs->save();
}

if ($prosmotr == 0) {
    $prosmotr = 1;
    $tv = $modx->newObject('modTemplateVarResource');
    $tv->set('tmplvarid', $idtv);
    $tv->set('contentid', $id);
    $tv->set('value', $prosmotr);
    $tv->save();
}

$modx->setPlaceholder('hitss', $prosmotr);

Rendering options

• for a direct TV value
• in resource listings with &includeTVs=`1`
• for uncached output in cached pages

This approach is simple, transparent, and still useful when you need a lightweight internal popularity signal without a heavier analytics dependency.