Logging with PHP
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In this article, Tim shows us how to log hits on all of your web sites. They can even be on separate servers around the world.Figuring out where your hits are coming from and which pages are being viewed is not too difficult if you use a good log analyzer like Analog or something similar, but if you want to pull up reports on the fly at any time, you need to take a different route.
For about six months, I was importing my Apache logs into an SQL database and then running ad-hoc queries against that.
Unfortunately, that requires me to go out and manually grab those log files, tweak the format a bit, then import. I wanted something better - something that was continually updated, flexible enough to simultaneously support multiple sites, and multiple actions (page view, ad click, click-in, click-out, plus more if needed).
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