[Pugged] Hit tracking, initial record.

[Chris Hettinger]

Any good free, recommended, log parsers? The package you have work dave,
is that a commerical app you have to purchase?

-ch

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Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [Pugged] Hit tracking, initial record.


Chris Hettinger <cjh@raccoon.com> said:

> I have a small function which is to store some visitor tracking 
> information to my site. I am storing a session_id, user_id (applicable

> only they are logged in), url, timestamp, and the ip of the request.
> 
> In my header file, Line 1 is a include of functions.php, below that 
> (line 2) I make a function call to a tracking function. The function 
> simply sets the timestamp, determines the request ip, then writes the 
> data into a mysql table.
> 
> The issue however is the Session ID. On the very first instance of 
> viewing my site, the record is written but there is no Session ID. If 
> I refresh the page or continue my visit and browsing to another page, 
> thus another call to the tracking function each record after has the 
> session id.
> 
> Not sure I have provided the full scenario here, questions... Ask 
> away.
> 

The only way I can think of to populate the session ID would be to have
a dummy page that just started the session, then have that page redirect
to the real home page, where it would write a valid session ID.

As far as if you need to be doing this sort of tracking - unless you
specifically need to do user based tracking, your apache logs and a
decent logging program will track that stuff just as well.

-dc

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