[Chameleon] Statistics for a chameleon server

[Paul Spencer]

Jacob,

the admin pages are not currently working but will be fixed up for the 
next beta.

Sounds like a cool utility.  Can it be extended to track useage by 
application as well?

I would be interested in adding it to the admin package as an optional 
component.

Cheers,

Paul

Jacob Delfos wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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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