Where to start with building project Views and likes in Tailor?

[jubbot]

Thinking of using less amount of active plugin and go full time building the project using Tailor but I liked blog views and likes feature found in RatMD BlogHub plugin and wonder it is possible to have this feature using Tailor? If yes, something like this idea or what’s the correct approach to achieve project views and like counter display on project page and project list?

project/post.yaml 

fields: 
    project_views:
           type: integer

   project_unique_views:
          type: integer

   project_likes:
         type: integer

[daft]

Hi @jubbot

To get you started, here is a method of incrementing the project_views attribute via Twig using the newQuery call:

Update table field with Tailor

You might be able to do this in Twig: {% do post.newQuery.update({ view_count: (post.view_count + 1) }) %} This could be better since you only want to increment the number when the record is viewed on the frontend, rather than every time the record is fetched (model.afterFetch event).