Log users & downloads

cjsa · - Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Halifax, NS

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there is a way I can get php to log what users log onto my server & what files they download. What I'd like to log file to look like would be the following info.

Say at 1:01 PM user JohnDoe logs on & downloads ad-aware.zip file, it would add this line to the log file.

13:01 JohnDoe ad-aware.zip
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

You would have to create one big script for this to work , I can create
such a script but it would take some time , i won't work with this untill
I get my current script debugged which will be for the new Abyss Beta.

I should have a neat litte script in the
future , check hotscripts.com for a log
script that logs downloads. Good Luck!

iNaNimAtE · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

You're aware that Abyss already includes a very comprehensive log file, right?
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cjsa · - Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Halifax, NS

Thank you for your replies. Yes I was aware that abyss does create a log file but it sure is hard to fing information in.

Like in this sample:

24.222.153.220 - - [27/Jun/2004:08:54:58 -0300] "GET /images/ty.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 7592 "http://www.nsplaza.no-ip.com/software/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - eric [27/Jun/2004:08:54:57 -0300] "GET /software/ HTTP/1.0" 200 29275 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - eric [27/Jun/2004:08:54:58 -0300] "GET /software/mail.swf HTTP/1.0" 200 1778 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - - [27/Jun/2004:08:54:58 -0300] "GET /images/readinfo.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 844 "http://www.nsplaza.no-ip.com/software/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - eric [27/Jun/2004:08:57:49 -0300] "GET /software/apps.php HTTP/1.0" 200 31002 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - - [27/Jun/2004:09:00:05 -0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6628 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - - [27/Jun/2004:09:00:05 -0300] "GET /images/mail.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 1096 "http://www.nsplaza.no-ip.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
24.222.153.220 - - [27/Jun/2004:09:00:05 -0300] "GET /logon.swf HTTP/1.0" 200 1732 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

Especially when it is pages & pages long. I was just wondering if there was a simply way to do it through php.

Thanks again people.
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:46 pm Post subject:

There are log analyzers such as WebLog Expert that do a good job, and then there are scripts. AWStats is a popular one (although I believe it is written in Perl). Just go to www.hotscripts.com to find one you like (in PHP).
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mcwilliams132 · - Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Posts: 167 Location: Oshkosh, WI

The best FREE web analizer that I know of is Funnel Web Analizer...

http://www.funnelwebcentral.com/

It's basically point and click and away you go...

you can thank me later...
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00squeaky · - Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 60

unless you want to publicly display a users downloads, then this is a pretty pointless topic because of abyss's (what a word!) log file.

but if yoou would want to track downloads publicly,

get a MYsql database
make a hidden form for the id of the download
define a function that could be executed onclick!.
query the databas within that function.
should be all.

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