Re: [phpOpenTracker-general] Making POT go

Hello John--

I know how you feel, been there! I hope this helps get you started...

This is what my POT directory looks like:

/phpOpenTracker/
/report/
/scripts/
error.log
phpOpenTracker.php

I use POT to track multiple websites. So, inside the 
/phpOpenTracker/Config.php file, I have a the clients array setup 
with values for the sites I want to track:

1 => 'site1.com',
2 => 'site2.com'
...

Inside the /scripts/ directory, I have a "webbug" for each site:

webbug_site1.js
webbug_site2.js
...

In the files for site1.com and site2.com, I call the appropriate 
webbug, for example:

<script language="JavaScript" 
src="http://www.myPOTinstallationsite.com/POT/scripts/webbug_site1.js" 
type="text/javascript">
     </script>
     <noscript>
       <img alt="" 
src="http://www.myPOTinstallationsite.com/POT/scripts/image.php?client_id=1" 
width="1" height="1" />
     </noscript>

To review statistics, I visit:

http://www.myPOTinstallationsite.com/POT/report/index.php

(which I have protected with .htaccess). I'm using the sample 
report files included with the POT distribution.

One recommendation I would make is to set up your DB using 
MySQL_Merge. Otherwise, you'll eventually have really slow reporting.

I'm sure my email here also makes alot of assumptions, but I hope 
it's helpful!

cheers
SAM :)


John Oliver wrote:
> OK... I think I have it installed.  So... now what?  The documentation
> makes an awful lot of assumptions.
> 
> Basically, I think we want to use a web bug or something similar.  We
> have Flash-based banner ads out there, and want to have a "hit" passed
> back to us with an identifier for each ad.  We assign a "project id" to
> each ad, so if we can just get that, that'll be enough for us to tell
> everything else.  We added something to the Flash code that sent a "hit"
> back to a virtualhost I created so that a log entry would be generated
> with the pid, and I was planning on using some bash scripting to read
> out and count pids
> 
> Now that I found out about POT, it sounds great, but there's absolutely
> no clue about what to do with it!  If I was interested in info about
> HTML served up from our server, I can see some info.  But how would a
> "hit" from the outside access and pass info to POT?  Once stuff is being
> logged, where are the logs, how do I read them, where's the control
> panel or whatever to sort it all out?



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