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Visitor Info Log - jwzumwalt - 2016-02-17
I thought it might be interesting to share with other folks how I am tracking my site visitor info.
Place the following code at the begining of the root directory index.php file.
PHP Code:
/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Visitor Log |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ */
function get_ip_location($ip) {
$location = file_get_contents('http://freegeoip.net/json/'.$ip);
return $location;
}
print_r($location);
$ip = "";
if(isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]) ) {
$ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
}
else if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]) ) {
$ip = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
}
else if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"]) ) {
$ip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"];
}
else {
$ip ="No IP";
}
if ($ip != "No IP") {
$location = get_ip_location ($ip);
} else {
$location='';
}
$info = date('Y.m.d H:i:s');
$info .= " ".$location;
$f=fopen("visitor.log","a");
fwrite($f,$info);
fclose($f);
Each time your site is visited, it will enter visitor information into a file in the root directory called "visitor.log".
A typical entry looks like this...
2016.02.17 07:15:19 {"ip":"67.61.123.28","country_code":"US","country_name":"United States","region_code":"OR","region_name":"Oregon","city":"Ontario","zip_code":"97914","time_zone":"America/Boise","latitude":44.0861,"longitude":-117.0188,"metro_code":757}
One word of caution before everybody gets all excited. The lookup time to this public database is about 3 seconds, so there is some page load latency .
During high internet usage, this free db may return blank or report "try again later"
My logs show about 1 out of 10 requests fail. And they may fail for periods of 2-3 minutes when I am testing.
This "Jason" data dump can be manipulated by a spreadsheet, database, or custom PHP program. At some time in the future I will probably write a custom analysis program in PHP. I use it to see daily activity and I find the the country of origin fascinating.
I do not know how to make plugins and don't expect to take the time to learn. But, if someone wants to take the time to convert this to a plugin, I would willingly contribute a db analysis.
A couple of enhancements that some folks might want is to limit the file size by date or size. Since I regularly do backups and ftp into my site, I regularly reset the file.
To trim the file to a certain number of lines, this routine can be used.
Code:
// trim file size
$max_lines = 10000;
$lines = file('visitor.log');
$line_cnt = count($lines);
if ($line_cnt > $max_lines) {
$delete_line = $line_cnt - $max_lines;
$lines = array_splice($lines, $delete_line);
// Write to file
$file = fopen('visitor.log', 'w');
fwrite($file,implode('', $lines));
fclose($file);
}RE: Visitor Info Log - Charpy1 - 2016-02-18
Thanks for sharing!
Yeah it could be very nice to have this informations somewhere on the backend panel.
I'm using a Piwik instance to have these information but a little plugin like this could be just fine.
RE: Visitor Info Log - elubben - 2016-02-19
Placed the code into my index.php file, and the only data that I get is 2016.02.17 07:15:19. The other data would be great and I'm wondering if I may have done something wrong?
Gene
RE: Visitor Info Log - jwzumwalt - 2016-02-19
(2016-02-19, 06:12:45)elubben Wrote: Placed the code into my index.php file, and the only data that I get is 2016.02.17 07:15:19. The other data would be great and I'm wondering if I may have done something wrong?
Gene
Thanks for the reply... no there is nothing wrong.
This is a good question and I should have explained this.
During high internet usage, the db will be blank or report "try again later"
When I look at my log, about 1 out of 10 requests fail. And they may fail for periods of 3-4 minutes when I am testing.
I do not know who maintains this free service but it is the only one I know about. Other companies that provide this service charge for each access. So, this is the best I have come across.
Sorry I did not make this clear - I will edit my original post.
RE: Visitor Info Log - elubben - 2016-02-19
(2016-02-19, 06:21:57)jwzumwalt Wrote:Great, it's working then!!! Thought I did something wrong in pasting to my index.php(2016-02-19, 06:12:45)elubben Wrote: Placed the code into my index.php file, and the only data that I get is 2016.02.17 07:15:19. The other data would be great and I'm wondering if I may have done something wrong?
Gene
Thanks for the reply... no there is nothing wrong.
This is a good question and I should have explained this.
During high internet usage, the db will be blank or report "try again later"
When I look at my log, about 1 out of 10 requests fail. And they may fail for periods of 3-4 minutes when I am testing.
I do not know who maintains this free service but it is the only one I know about. Other companies that provide this service charge for each access. So, this is the best I have come across.
Sorry I did not make this clear - I will edit my original post.
Gene