Re: [phpOpenTracker-general] Making POT go

On Fri, 26 May 2006 07:48 am, 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
>

Yep well POT does that so you write a PHP script to call an API function to 
get you the information you need. You could use your actionscript to call the 
webbug script both on load, and if the user clicks.

> 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?

Basically you write your own reporting system using the API described in the 
docs, using PHP. There is an example report somewhere with the distributed 
application, though I have not looked at it.

RG