While we're on the subject of dynamic pages and
stats, I'm in the process of writing a press
release database which is shared by hundreds
of clients. I haven't given too much though
to how to handle the stats, but as I finish the
back end design, I'm becoming more concerned that
traditional stats methods (eg. using Analog to
generate a reprot from access_log). The reason
being is that while I've modularized the
design to manys scripts each script handles
everything. For example, 1 script will list the
available press releases for a category (Airlines
for example). ANother script will actually display
the release for a given company (id).
Since each script is handeling all the clients,
scanning the access_log will just result in
multiple calls to the same scripts but with
different ids. So it would be impossible to
breakdown who looked at release A and who looked
at release B. I've gievn thought to writing my
own logging into teh database but it seems like
I'd be re-inventing the wheel.
How do those of you who run dynamic Web sites
deal with stats. I'm particularily interested
in those of you who use 1 or 2 scripts to
generate the whole site and how to differentiate
between what sections were viewed since a single
script generated them all.
Jim
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Jim Serio - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Producer, World of Coasters
