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http://www.warkensoft.com/tutorials/website-statistic-tracking.html
Often, in order to keep track of these traffic statistics a webmaster will use some sort of script or program which monitors visitors and creates reports based on their needs. These scripts can range in size and complexity from a simple hit counter on a page, to a fully integrated data-mining application. They can also range in price from free unsupported scripts, to thousands of dollars for an integrated system. In many cases though, the first option is relatively useless, and the second is unnecessary (and usually outside of the budget). As is true with many things in life, the best solution is usually somewhere in between.
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Oct 16, 2006
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Often, in order to keep track of these traffic statistics a webmaster will use some sort of script or program which monitors visitors and creates reports based on their needs. These scripts can range in size and complexity from a simple hit counter on a page, to a fully integrated data-mining application. They can also range in price from free unsupported scripts, to thousands of dollars for an integrated system. In many cases though, the first option is relatively useless, and the second is unnecessary (and usually outside of the budget). As is true with many things in life, the best solution is usually somewhere in between.
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You can get quite a bit of information about your visitors without having to use a third party tracking software. I'll outline the PHP commands you can use to capture some of this data. The details you capture can be saved into a database, and retrieved later to check your site's performance and user details. The following information is captured using the server variable ($_SERVER) which is available from PHP 4.10 onwards.
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Capturing click data is useful when you want to look at trends such as pages that are looked at the most, or amount of traffic.
To do this you would need to call the function below each time a page is loaded to capture the click data such as user ip, page title and url. Ofcourse you can capture more info here, for example date.
Further on you would need to save the click data in a database or text file (for example a csv file ready to be viewed in excel).
To do this you would need to call the function below each time a page is loaded to capture the click data such as user ip, page title and url. Ofcourse you can capture more info here, for example date.
Further on you would need to save the click data in a database or text file (for example a csv file ready to be viewed in excel).
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Logging Your Website With PHP Using a Flat File
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Getting information about your visitors is interesting and sometimes useful for generating statistics, especially when you have a high traffic.
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