Re: A MYSQL COUNTER

whenever they're is a new unique visitor, I want a script to email the member about who visited. And have a permanent record for each member of who viewed their pages, accesible when they login. "Rick Emery" <remery@excel.com> wrote in message news:EAA093B474ABD311A71E00508B5FE08305C2D12A@adntex03.us.excel.com... > The question you must answer first: what do you intend to do with the data > once it's collected? Will you simply review the data without sorting it or > performing data manipulation? If so, why incur the overhead of MYSQL? If > all you need to do is log the user page hits, use a text file; then use > grep/awk/sed/perl/php to search for specific users with their page hits, > etc. > > Define your requirements more explicitly, then choose a solution. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Walker [mailto:mwalker@mountaintopherbs.com] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 6:39 PM > To: Georgie Casey; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] A MYSQL COUNTER > > > This is too much for a text file. You should definitely use MySQL for > this. > > Matthew Walker > Ecommerce Project Manager > Mountain Top Herbs > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Georgie Casey [mailto:webmaster@filmfind.tv] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:22 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] A MYSQL COUNTER > > I need a way of tracking what user was logged in when vieweing a > particular > member page, so I'm thinking of having EVERY unique page view of each > member > page added to a MySQL database, which just the ip, time and date, server > name and browser, stuff like that. Is this too much for a MySQL DB??? > Should > I just write all the info to a textfile??? > > TANX > > -- > Regards, > Georgie Casey > webmaster@filmfind.tv > > *************************** > http://www.filmfind.tv > Ireland's Online Film Production Directory > *************************** > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/2002 > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.323 / Virus Database: 180 - Release Date: 2/8/2002 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php