Display number of words in article at top of article?

[emeyer]

Any ideas on the best way to do this? I was thinking of adding a php to the template like this, but maybe you have a better idea. I started with this, but words without spaces between them and html tags didn't get counted:

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$html.='<dt>Word count:</dt><dd>'.str_word_count(strip_tags($this->item->fulltext)).'</dd>';

So now I have this:

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$wcount = preg_replace('#<[^>]+>#', ' ', $this->item->fulltext);
$wcount = str_replace('&nbsp;',"",$wcount);
$html.='<dt>Word count:</dt><dd>'.str_word_count($wcount).'</dd>';

[Per Yngve Berg]

The proper way to do it is to write a Plugin.

https://docs.joomla.org/Plugin

[emeyer]

Well, it doesn't actually work for my site design, because I wanted it in the article description next to the author, category, date created, etc. I put it the above in the template, and it does seem to work fine.

[sudo-web]

Because you want to have it on the article you can’t use the Template index.php file. As Per Yngve Berg said the proper way is a plugin.

It’s not so hard. You have to know that is the right event for your plugin. In your case you can use onContentPrepare. You only have to check if the call is coming from com_article and what type of view is called because I am not sure if you like to display it on every view.

Than just count the fulltext as you did and add the result properly.

Here some info about creating a plugin: https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Creating_a ... for_Joomla and some more information about the plugin events: https://docs.joomla.org/Plugin/Events

[emeyer]

But I don't need a plugin. I already made template overrides for all my content. I just needed to add four lines of PHOP to the template override. It's done.

[sudo-web]

Of course there many ways for a single problem, all we say is that this would be the prober way. I’m not sure is this issue solved for you, or do you have a concert question?

[emeyer]

Well, it seems to me the default options for article information display on blog and article pages haSn't be redesigned in 20 years. It would be simple to add these options, and a plugin can't insert them up there without template overrides. I did not ice there is no plugin for it though, so I guess most people dont care, considering how many zillions there are of the things these days.