Button with counter

Feature Requests
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I hope I may present the following problem. I have created a simple page with two buttons for readers to order a free book. They can choose a book for iPad or laptop/computer by pressing one button. I would like to connect a counter to those buttons that registers how often one of the two books is downloaded. I guess I'll have to connect an extra script to each button, but unfortunately, I don't know how to make that script with the counter.
https://www.janmac.nl/Kievitenteller/Kievitenteller.html

Would be very happy with help.

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This looks like a job for Web Analytics. Here's what I would likely do if I wanted to track button clicks...

  1. Download and install Matomo on a web server — https://matomo.org
  2. Add the JavaScript tracking code to the page.
  3. Add the "onclick" code. It's explained here — https://matomo.org/docs/event-tracking/

Downsides...

  • It's a bit technical. (It's not terrible though)
  • You'll need a web host to run the software... something that supports PHP/MySQL
  • Now you have to maintain web analytics software. (It's not too bad, generally, but could be really rough if something goes horribly wrong.)
  • There are privacy issues. (Matomo is pretty good about this. There are settings to handle GDPR issues.)

Upsides...

...and no... I don't work for Matomo... but I did consider it. :smile:

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Photics, thank you very much for your unbelievable quick response. I have signed up and am going to study matomo.
I hope it will work out with my limited knowledge of programming.

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You don't need to sign up to use Matomo, but you can pay Matomo to do the hosting for you. If you have a lot of traffic, that option could get expensive... but I suppose that's relative. If the information helps you save money or improve sales, then $29 a month for tracking 50,000 page views (Cloud plan) might not seem so bad.

There's not much programming here.

<a href="mailto:name@example.com" title="Email Us" onclick="_paq.push(['trackEvent', 'Contact', 'Email Link Click', 'name@example.com']);">Email Us</a>

An "onlick" event added to a hyperlink should get it done. It can be added as JavaScript code too. That involves programming...

https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide#manually-trigger-events

...but it's not too bad.

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Photis, I thank you really very much for your efforts but I'm still looking for a solution. As a complete programming layman it is very difficult for me to understand why there is no possibility to make a script only within Hype that easily triggers a counter when choosing between two possible answers. I made another example to avoid becoming boring:
https://www.janmac.nl/two%20beer/two%20beer.html
Please anybody, make my day…

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Lots of ways to do this, here's a good example that doesn't require a database:

https://www.kavoir.com/2010/05/simplest-php-hit-counter-or-download-counter-count-the-number-of-times-of-access-visits-or-downloads.html

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Wow, as I had hoped there are many different possibilities within Hype...
Now I can ask an old pupil of mine to help me solve this.
Great answer. Thank you Daniel