Trying to find a decent open source vistor tracking system that runs via php.

onicsoft

I am trying to find a decent open source visitor tracking wrote in straight php. Basically it needs to record all the details that php can get. I will not have access to display javascript, so no javascript, straight php is needed.

I am creating a site that will track forum posts and will be helpful to those business types that market on forums and would like to know how many views their forum thread/post gotten, which url they were on before going to their thread/post, if they viewed it multiple times, if they clicked on a link in the post to go to the website advertised in the thread/post. Is there anything else that php can record that might be helpful?

big_nerd

Try checking the data available with:

<?php
printf('<pre>&#37;s</pre>',print_r($_SERVER,true));
?>

I don't know of any open source visitor tracking, in fact I am unsure of what you expect to get from it.

Because PHP is a SERVER SIDE language it can't provide much. You may be able to parse search strings and take stats such as most visited topics

The information you are looking for may be more specific to the forum(s) you are running rather than a straight PHP implementation.

onicsoft

big.nerd;10916916 wrote:
Try checking the data available with:
<?php
printf('<pre>%s</pre>',print_r($_SERVER,true));
?>
I don't know of any open source visitor tracking, in fact I am unsure of what you expect to get from it.

Because PHP is a SERVER SIDE language it can't provide much. You may be able to parse search strings and take stats such as most visited topics

The information you are looking for may be more specific to the forum(s) you are running rather than a straight PHP implementation.

I expect to get as much information as possible for those that want to track forum posts. See if I was to go post something for sale say on digitalpoint.com I wouldn't know how many people visited the thread, if they revisited the thread a few times, if they came to it by search engine or if by another address on the forum, if they were looking for it by searching the forum, what country was most interested in viewing it on the forum, which search engines looked at the page, how many times they did this. Giving them a service and stats they might want/need for better advertisement targeting in the future. Some forums posts rank really high in SERP and show up in SERPS minutes to hours after it is posted and could be an great door way page to products for sale.

As for only being above to track this information on the forums I am running, I actually have a way to track forum posts that are not 'my' forums. Say I can track the demographic's of this forum post and it needs to be php/mysql based and not javascript based.

I did find something that I am going to try. It took a weeks worth of googling, but I found it.

http://www.phpopentracker.de/

But there was this other one that was the precode of haveamint.com that I used to use a bunch a long time ago and was sweet, but since lost the open source code and can't recall what it was called before it was renamed to haveamint. So, I can not find it.

Thank-you for your reply.