Re: [phpOpenTracker-User] DB schema question

Sebastian Bergmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.phpopentracker.general
Organization www.sebastian-bergmann.de
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Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> Is there always at least *one* pot_visitors entry for each
> pot_hostnames entry?

  No, see below.

> But ... why are these being logged into the pot_hostname table?
> I would have thought that since my lock.ini file excludes these
> host there should be nothing associated with them in the DB, no?

  Request to which a locking rule applies have no rows in the
  pot_accesslog and pot_visitors tables, but unfortunetly in the other
  tables.

> Is my database corrupt?

  I doubt that.

> Does this query give me the number of unique visitors?
>
> # select count(distinct(host_id)) from pot_visitors ;
>  count
> -------
>    667

  No.

> I am hoping that using 'track_returning_visitors = On', it is
> possible to identify unique visitors?

  No, this allows you to retrieve information on how often a unique
  visitor returned to your site.

> Can someone explain to me what the number 10464 really means? :)

  It is the number of visits, or sessions, tracked by phpOpenTracker.

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