[Chameleon] Statistics for a chameleon server

[Jacob Delfos]

Paul,

I wasn't aware of the admin capability (admin.php?). I just tried it, but it came out blank.

I have implemented a simple counting solution, that gathers information from a user when a new session is started (I call a function from session.php). The information is just what I can get from php (IP, browser, etc.), but at least I get some idea of who comes around. It opens/creates a dbf file and adds a new record to it for each user. I had to give write permission to the folder where I placed the dbf file. I wrote a small phtml file to spit out the records, and give the totals. See http://spatial.hgm.com.au/cwcroe7/common/session/viewstats.phtml

I'm not sure if it should/could be a widget, because it doesn't really have to do with the functionality of the page. I have no doubt it could be implemented far more elaborately with more functionality than what I made, though. (e.g. you could make it write W3C format logs, and use an open-source web-statistics tool with graphs to analyse them).

If anyone is interested in the code, let me know.

regards,

Jacob


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba at magma.ca] 
Sent: 9 August 2004 19:57
To: J. Delfos
Cc: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Chameleon] Statistics for a chameleon server


Jacob,

that's a neat widget idea.  I think a generic logging widget would be a 
useful thing for quite a few people.  It may be useful to have it hooked 
into the admin capability perhaps.

Unfortunately, I don't have any plans to add such a widget, but if you 
or someone else does, I'll certainly look at incorporating it into the 
chameleon distribution.

Cheers,

Paul

J. Delfos wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I just wanted to ask whether anyone else has ever bothered to keep 
> statistics of their chameleon site, and what would be the best way to do 
> so? The problems I run into is that I don't want to use some image that 
> needs to be downloaded for statistics to be done remotely, because that 
> can hold things up (especially when using the 'onload' functionality to 
> trigger chameleon functionality). If I use an apache log analyser, I 
> usually would have to set up a whole statistics webpage, and I'm not too 
> happy with the security some of those things offer. Also, the statistics 
> from the log are not too useful, because users refreshing the page 
> (submitting) results in multiple entries, and if you run more than one 
> chameleon site you cannot tell easily what belongs to what (using a 
> database to split up results doesn't work, because the URL strings are 
> too long).
> 
> Does anyone have a better idea? Perhaps a statistics widget that uses 
> session info?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jacob
> 
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