title: Drupal 7 Display Hit / Page View counter
body: <p>I want to display a counter on my website. 
  The counter is to be done using Drupal, not by external providers. On the net I've found these instructions:</p>
  
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    <p>Drupal 7 - Hit/Page View counter for Articles
    Another task I had to spend more time that I needed to. You would think that a simple hit counter would be a readily availble in a modual. Anyway, heres what ya do:</p>
    
    <p>1) It's part of core; enable the core "Statistics" module. You can see the official notes at : <a href="http://drupal.org/project/statistics_advanced" rel="nofollow">http://drupal.org/project/statistics_advanced</a></p>
    
    <p>2) Go to: Administration » Configuration » System » Statistics. You may have to enable the "Statisctics" modual first.</p>
    
    <p>3) For the setting "Content viewing counter settings" check the "Count content views" checkbox.</p>
    
    <p>4) Be sure to set permissions for the module at admin/user/permissions, and configure it in admin/settings/statistics.
    IMPORTANT - On the giant Permissions panel, scroll down to the "Statistics" mod and enable permissions for "anoymous user" and "authenticated user"</p>
    
    <p>5) You can now show the total count of the page hits, it should display in the block region you assigned.</p>
    
    <p>IMPORTANT - The block name is called "Popular Content". Dont ask why.
    You can see it working below:</p>
    
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  <p>I moved the popular content block into the correct region but it will not show me the number of hits only the most popular content pages. I would like to be able to show the number of hits.</p>
  
  <p>Alternatives? 
  How about a php-script?<br>
  But where to put it: <a href="http://my-drupal-site.com/...path???.../counter.php" rel="nofollow">http://my-drupal-site.com/...path???.../counter.php</a><br>
  What is the html-code to run the script and to show the result?  </p>
  
  <p>(Please if you reply be aware of: I am drupal newbie,<br>
   experience status:<br>
   php: no<br>
   html, css, linux, bash programming: yes)  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>