Bandwidth tracking

[dotwebbie]

Hey guys,
I've searched for this and only one thing came up that wasn't what I was looking for, unfortunately. I'm looking to do two types of bandwidth tracking, I hope.

1. Overall bandwidth usage total. Yeah, yeah, MRTG is nice, but simple numbers are nice too. 😛 I know it is possible in Perl, but a PHP alternative would be helpful.
2. Bandwidth tracking within an app. Might as well spill the beans. I'm planning to do a free image hosting site. I've seen scripts that do this, but I can't afford to pay for the script and see how they did it.

Any articles, tutorials, snippets, etc. would be welcome. I've looked, but couldn't find anything of use.

[w_geoghegan]

I'm not sure if your web host will allow this but in the php.ini you can set an option to call a fixed function on every single page.

Basically, you would write a function that determines the size of the data it's going to send.

Not an easy task.

The other alternative is to create an image serving script that records the bandwidth it used when sending that particular image.

Do a search on google for bandwidth tracking with php.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

William Geoghegan
GEOTEK Computer Services
- www.geotekcs.co.uk -

[dotwebbie]

I've been to the ends of google and have found nothing of help. 🙁

I'm my own host. 😉

One suggestion was to use ob* and handle it that way.

• the appropriate ob-related functions. I think that might work best. for the application, but what about the server level?