statistics

coolz

hi,
I want to host the statistics of my friend for he has no more mysql db. We are in a different hosting. All gathered information( ip add, referer, etc) from his website will be inputed to my database.

I tried to create a simple script to test if it will work. But it seems that I can't even get the correct I.P.
A different I.P. is displaying whenever i view the page 🙁 I am certain that it is not my I.P add. And also, it seems that i can't set a cookie.

What I did is I told him to include the file on his index.php like this

include("http://www.mywebsite.com/stats.php");

Stats.php is the file where all codes are written and it is located on my server.

Maybe that is the error!??

any ideas pls ? ? ?

Nate

You could have him do:

Then he doesn't have to have php pages... Not sure why the INCLUDE wouldn't work though. Depends how your script is written i suppose.

Weedpacket

Um, I'm a little confused here; your friend has a PHP site, and is using include() to run a script that is hosted on your site, yes?

You do know that if you include a PHP script over http the request goes via the web server on your site, which runs it on your server (not your friend's), and sends back the result as the response - exactly as if you'd requested it from within a page as Nate showed?

How exactly is your Stats.php script getting the IP it's displaying? It's not displaying the dynamically-assigned IP your friend is using when making the request is it? Have you tried a DNS lookup to see what if any name is registered to that address? It's not your friend's proxy server is it?

coolz

thanks for the replies

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Um, I'm a little confused here; your friend has a PHP site, and is using include() to run a script that is hosted on your site, yes?

yes

Originally posted by Weedpacket
You do know that if you include a PHP script over http the request goes via the web server on your site, which runs it on your server (not your friend's), and sends back the result as the response - exactly as if you'd requested it from within a page as Nate showed?

a bit confused on that

Originally posted by Weedpacket
How exactly is your Stats.php script getting the IP it's displaying? It's not displaying the dynamically-assigned IP your friend is using when making the request is it? Have you tried a DNS lookup to see what if any name is registered to that address? It's not your friend's proxy server is it? [/B]

this is a part of the script

$Ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
echo $Ip;

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And when I view his index page where inlude is located, it shows a different I.P. add. It's suppossed to show my I.P. Isn't it?

DonChris

i guess what you see is the IP of the Server calling your script...

DonChris

if you want to use JavaScript:

// place this at the end of your page:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
ref=escape(document.referrer);
document.write("<img src='http://www.mywebsite.com/stats.php?ref="+ref+"' border=0 width=1 height=1>");
//-->

// and in your script (stats.php) check for $_GET['ref']...

Weedpacket

Originally posted by DonChris
i guess what you see is the IP of the Server calling your script...

Yep; the script runs on whichever server it's stored on.

[man]include[/man]
... the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is then being included into the local script.

So the IP you're getting is the one your friend's server is using to make the request.

But don't you already know your own IP?

coolz

Yeah it seems that it is the I.P. of the server. I know my own I.P.

But how can I possibly get the I.P. of each visitors? Should i use what Nate suggested?

thanks

Weedpacket

Originally posted by coolz
Yeah it seems that it is the I.P. of the server. I know my own I.P.

But how can I possibly get the I.P. of each visitors?

Nate's suggestion just does the same thing (with a bogus image download thrown in).

If you mean you want the IP of the visitors to your friend's site, why don't you just have your friend use $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']? Asking your friend to request a resource from your server is a whole different request from the one the visitor made to your friend's server.

coolz

I tried it and it works. I can now see my own I.P.

However, a new problem occurrs. How I am be able to insert it and/or compare it on the records in the database hosted on my site? Will normal insert/update works? ( I decided to wait for any opinion before i try it ) Should I just include the connections and put the whole script (stats.php) on his site?

I'd like to get the unique visitors of his site and store/compare it on my database.