logging info.

forcer

i'm still in learning processes with vb. i was just wondering how you can log information about people who visit your site.

for instance

ip | hostname | whatever else | ect

in a text file about each user.

what sort of information can be logged? how is it written to a file?

WinterDragon

you could just do...

$ipaddress = "0.0.0.0";
$hostname = "blah.stupid.com";
$name = "Jon";

$data = $ipaddress . $hostname . $name;
$fp = fopen("log.txt", "a+");
$fout = fwrite($fp, $data);
fclose($fp);

That will append to the file with information... shrugs You might want to of course get the correct data... 🙂

daphreeek

<?php
include("databaseinfo.php");
$ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

if ($nolog !=1) {
   $sql = "INSERT INTO accesslog (ip, page, section) VALUES ('$ip','$PHP_SELF','$section')";
   $result = @mysql_query($sql);
?>

I use that and include it in every page on my site after I set 2 variables, $page and $section, so I know what pages where visited and by who and in what order.

It stores all the info in a database table:

CREATE TABLE accesslog (
  time timestamp(14) NOT NULL,
  ip varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  page varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  section varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
  PRIMARY KEY  (time)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

It works well. I also have a page which gives a summary to anyone who wants to look so they can see what info is gathered.

Hope that helps
- Matt