This is something we’ve had kicking about at Nine Four for a while and I’ve not yet got around to putting it up on GitHub so thought I’d drop a copy here for a couple of people that have shown interest. It basically keeps a record of a visitors recently viewed entries using their session ID.

Implementation is pretty basic, include the following on any page where you want to track entries to the recently viewed list:

You could also pull the entry_id from a segment in the URL to negate the need to place this in between the weblog:entries tag. Then use the following to spit out details of the entries they have recently viewed:

Download here: http://ninefour.co.uk/labs/recently-viewed/

That’s it! Enjoy!

Taking it for a spin now Nathan - many, many thanks for being so responsive!

UPDATE: I’m very pleased to report that this works a treat and is EXACTLY what I was after! If you don’t ask, you don’t get

Many thanks Nathan. I definitely owe you one.

No worries, let me know of any issues or ideas for improvements.

Great. Have a project coming up to try this on. Thanks!

Will likely use this on my current project.

Uploaded the files, went to the Modules tab and got…

Error

Unable to load the following language file:

/lang.recentlyviewed.php

@Euan Make sure you upload the language file to the language directory in system.

I can’t seem to get this to work - I have this in my view template near the top

and this in my sidebar

But it’s not returning anything - any ideas?

Could you post the complete template content perhaps? It may be that the exp:recentlyviewed:add_entry tag is not within a weblog:entries tag pair…

I was having problems showing recently viewed results until I remembered that I needed to include extra bits into the weblog parameters, so in my case it looks like:

Any chance of an EE2 version?

All the best
Lee

Possibly, I’ve not tried migrating any of our add ons yet but this would be a nice simple one to start with.

Many thanks for getting back to me, I’ll watch out for it just in case it happens on day.

Is there some means of limiting how long the session data is stored?
I looked at the database to see what was stored and there were a lot of records. So I’m concerned that the volume of data could get enormous.

I am trying it on an outdoor activity booking site where it shows visitors which individual activities they have viewed so far.

Hi Paul, not at present no but it’s certainly something we need to add! I’ll post back here as soon as it’s done!

Hi all, I’ve made some adjustments to this module over the weekend to prevent against data bloat! You can grab the revised version here (http://ninefour.co.uk/labs/recently-viewed/). I’ve adjusted the module file names so you’ll have to uninstall the previous version and then install this new version for the changes to take effect. The tags have also been adjusted slightly to reflect this and the docs have been updated to take account of this.

Basically the module now limits the number of entry views that it tracks for any given user to 5 by default, however you can tweak this setting in the mod.recently_viewed.php file yourself to any figure. This will be added as a control panel setting in a future release.

Thanks for the great plugin and the much-needed limit addition in 1.1 ... I was about to do that myself!

Nathan,

I just downloaded and installed this but it isn’t putting out any results for me. The code I added is copied from your docs.

If I remove the recently_viewed tag it does spit out entry titles. Could there be a conflict with Structure which is running this particular weblog?

Hi Sean, could you post a more complete extract of your page template for me to look at?

Nathan, that is pretty much the whole template - it’s sitting in the sidebar surrounded by a div with a border on it so I know where it should display.