Rick,

It's amazing how one gets locked into a PHP mindset. Do all that stuff you 
outlined in your reply, but why not have a second Java applet to update a 
remote database? PHP doesn't have ownership over the database.

Miles

At 08:06 AM 1/7/2002 -0500, Richard Spangenberg wrote:
>Miles,
>
>The reason for the javascript is that the hosting ISP does not support PHP.
>
>Each time a new session is started, the javascript would have to:
>- check for cookie
>-if it doesn't exist
>         -poll database for next new custome ID#
>         -set new cookie id
>         -update database with page info
>         -download java applet (does something else)
>
>I guess I wasn't sure if a non PHP supported domain could access the PHP
>database from a remot   server or not and how one would do that.  I am setting
>things up in PHP but fairly new at it.
>
>Rick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 10:52 PM
>To: Richard Spangenberg; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Remote Cookie ID and Web Statistics
>
>
>
>Why would you want to use Javascript? Just have some code at the top of
>each page which
>-checks for the cookie
>-if it doesn't exist
>     -identify customer, login page or however you choose
>     -set cookie
>     -update database
>-if it does exist
>     -update the database with some information pertinent to that page
>
>Or are these straight HTML pages, thus the need for Javascript to do
>something? I don't konw a lot of Javascript, but you could have it pop open
>a PHP page in a child browser window, back in the Z-order so that it would
>be behind your "main" page (only for Internet Explorer), and use it to do
>the above steps.
>
>For every page transition you would have to pass the appropriate parameters
>to the child window and force it to refresh. You will have some trouble
>with people who have Javascript and cookies turned off.
>
>As I said, I don't know Javascript, so this is just off the top of my head.
>A straight PHP solution would be preferable and I assume it's not possible
>either because the ISP doesn't host it or for some political reason.
>
>
>Miles Thompson
>
>
>At 10:28 PM 1/6/2002 -0500, Richard Spangenberg wrote:
> >Hello, - for something a little different...
> >
> >Does anyone have experience using Javascript on remote server html
>delivered
> >pages to capture data in a PHP MySQL database resident at my domain.
> >
> >I would like to build a customer profile database for a customer using a
> >permanent cookie on a visitor's browser client to ID them and track their
> >visits by page over time.  This is similar to a live or remote web
> >statistics process for a session but posting to a mysql database by some
> >mapped category by page in addition to the web stats.  I'd like to track
> >both the session and by posting to a visitor database, long term trends as
> >well.
> >
> >Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks, Rick
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> >
> >
> >
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