On Nov 4, 2007 9:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to figure out problem, how to effective track click statistics > like user profile views > without hitting database or writing statistics to flatfile and processing by > cron. It would be best > to save them directly into memcache so they can be globally available, then > run in periods > database updates. The problem is that there could be thousands of different > profiles to count stats for > so using increment function is not an option. > Best would be if memcache would support "append" so I could save all hit IDs > under one memcache > key and then process the list to count frequency of IDs and issue db update. > So my question is, how do I handle such cases to have statistics written into > shared place to process later DB update? > > Goodwill > >
you don't need extra logging program, just place a random gif at your page where you can easily redirect all the stats to your httpd access log, write a program to parse it afterward.
