logging

[Anon]

Hello,

I\'m trying to create an IP address logging stats script.

What I want to do is print out a report of the ip addresses that visited my website and how many times that ip address visited it.

here is what i\'m trying to work on

<?
$var_addr = getenv(\"REMOTE_ADDR\");
$addrFile = addr.log\";

// write current ip address
if (\"$var_addr\" != \"$ip_array\") {
// write the new ip address
$file=fopen(\"$addrFile\", \"w\")) {
flock($file, 2);
fputs($file, \"1|$addr\n\");
flock($file, 3);
fclose($file);
} elseif (\"$var_addr\" == \"$ip_array\") {
// increment the ip address
$file=fopen(\"$addrFile\", \"a\")) {
flock($file, 2);

 flock($file, 3);
 fclose($file);

} else {
echo(\"Error handling log file.\");
}

?>

yea its a bit confusing right now, but here\'s what i want to do, and i neeed help writing the code..

I want to create a log file, of ip addresses that visited my site.

If the current visitor ip matches an ip address already in the file, it will increment the count,
eg

2|xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

if its not there, it will add it to the flat text file.

I need help doing this, checking if the two ip address match and incrementing the count.

my email is [e-mail].

I need all the help i can get.

I\'m guessing i would need to create a do or for loop to check each ip address individualy and run it through if/else

i know this takes a long time to do the check, but i need it.

Thanks

[Anon]

If you want to do this in real time, you really need a database.
But first ask yourself if it needs to be realtime. If not, you may
be able to drop the whole thing, as your webserver access logs
will give you the same information, and there are many free
log-analyzing programs that you can run on a periodic basis
that will give you the access count per ip address.

But assuming it does need to be realtime, there is no substitute
for a database. I imagine you're not talking about a tiny subset
of ip address (like you might see if you were talking about access
just from an intranet in one of the private address spaces.)

Any lookup mechanism you cook up is likely to be inferior (i.e.
slower) than what would be provided by just about any dbms.

[Anon]

Speaking of web log examiners:

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

It's also open-source, should you want to use it for your own...however the source is in C, heh.

[Anon]

I definitely suggest webalizer. Set it up as a cron job every night and you will have all of the info you need!

Great program.