Re: Newbie challenge to brainiacs

Jay Blanchard wrote: > The burning issue that begs to be answered is, why reinvent the wheel? There is a least a dozen blogs on freshmeat for PHP along... Unless your doing it just for kicks, which is OK. David > [snip] > > I want to try to find the hour that has the most hits > > The day of the week that has the most hits > > and the max and ave no of hits of these. > > I haven't given it a whole lot of thought but I'd be tempted to dump the > whole thing into an appropriately structured sql database and then use > SELECT's to extract the information you want. It'll likely end up > faster and less processor intensive than doing it in php by itself I > suspect. > [/snip] > > +1 > > Not only that, but then you will have the ability to create queries for > other important factors in the logs without having to recode, or create > code. > > Jay