Re: Newbie challenge to brainiacs

The challenge is to do it without SQL. Which blog do you recommend? "David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson@wcox.com> wrote in message news:3CE1523D.83490E06@wcox.com... > 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