> -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:54 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: One thing I've always wanted to build... breadcrumb trail... > > Not the one that represents a folder structure or > hierarchy, but shows the exact places visited. > > Home > Services > Contact > Pricing > FAQ
I've done this on my site for years: www.depressedpress.com I call it the "ClickStream" - it's up near the top right. > Anyone know of a tutorial on how to do this? In my case a lot of this falls from application framework. I maintain an instance of a "session" component for each user - that stores information about them (browser information, clickstream, credentials, etc). The whole framework (all the CFC libraries) is here (look to the "Framework Package" specifically): http://www.depressedpress.com/Content/Development/ColdFusion/DPLibraries/Ind ex.cfm The actual clickstream component (a property of the session component) is really just an abstraction of an array: http://www.depressedpress.com/Content/Development/ColdFusion/DPLibraries/Doc umentation/DocViewer.cfm?Component=cfc_DepressedPress.Framework.DP_Clickstre am If you look at the "add" method that's the meat of it. I store the URL, the QueryString (if any), the title of the page (to make using the data easier - but it also means that your title is available), the datetime (let's you infer how long they've spent on each page) and a boolen "true" if the user was logged in at the time of the entry. Each user has a key and each session has a key - when the session ends the clickstream is saved to the database for later analysis. I could pull up clickstreams from previous visits (one of those "to do" items I never seem to get around to) this way. In any case the basic idea is just an array of URLs - what you do with the data is up to you. It can be as simple as "here's where you've been" or you can get into really cool custom analytics. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307200 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
