Views Work Events (Views Work)

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BLOCK PAGEVIEW REGISTRATION EVENT

If you're deeper into development, Views Work exposes an event that allows you to programmatically determine if a page view should be registered or not.

A use case is where you may want to exclude specific pages from registrations, and exclude them from popular content.
Below is example code for a Craft module:

namespace modules;

use Craft;
use twentyfourhoursmedia\viewswork\events\BlockElementViewRegistrationEvent;
use twentyfourhoursmedia\viewswork\services\ViewsWorkService;
use yii\base\Event;

class Module extends \yii\base\Module
{
    /**
     * Initializes the module.
     */
    public function init()
    {
        // Set a @modules alias pointed to the modules/ directory
        Craft::setAlias('@modules', __DIR__);

        parent::init();

        // Example of blocking a pageview when the user agent contains the word 'bot'
        // (to block bots)
        Event::on(
            ViewsWorkService::class,
            ViewsWorkService::EVENT_BLOCK_ELEMENT_VIEW_REGISTRATION,
            static function (BlockElementViewRegistrationEvent $event) {
                //  if the registration was already blocked, don't check any further
                if ($event->blocked) {
                    return;
                }
                // Enter some expression here if the pageview should be blocked.
                // In this case we search for occurrence of the word 'bot' in the user agent to block some bots
                $request = Craft::$app->getRequest();
                $userAgent = strtolower($request->getUserAgent());
                if (str_contains($userAgent, 'bot')) {
                    $event->blocked = true;
                }
            }
        );
    }
}