[ic] adding non table reports (more in depth traffic statistics)

[Julia Jacobs]

Howdy!

I would like to add more in depth traffic statistics to Interchange's
reports.  I use Interchange version 4.8 on Red Hat 7.2 with a standard
foundation type catalog.  The stats I'd like to add are:

really important
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referring URLs
referring search engines and keywords

not so important but would be really cool
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monitor resolution of visitors
country of visitors
browser of visitors
page of entry
exit page
files / documents / images downloaded if any
error messages
OS's of visitors
plug ins of browsers

I know webalizer outputs to mySQL and Interchange's reports will custom read
tables. . . .

webalizer also can be manipulated with php and mySQL so  you don't have to
edit those dreaded webalizer.conf files and create a new directory for every
domain on the hosting server:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/hampton20010904.php3

I have not attempted this but took a look at the article.

Anyone done anything along these lines?

I'm willing to trade for a 10 page, easy to read tutorial I give to my
clients that they use to prepare their images and product info for a
foundation type Interchange eCommerce website.  I give them this tutorial
along with a sample.xls and template.xls file.  I then upload the images and
.xls file into the web site. I specify in my contract (as well as make it
VERY CLEAR to the client) that any cleaning up or further work  that needs
to be done to the database / images will be charged by the hour.  This makes
my life MUCH easier.

I would not mind contributing this document to the list, but I would like to
get some sort of decent traffic solution for my server that does not require
paying an arm and a leg, trying to decipher someone's cryptic undocumented /
unsupported code (I'm not much of a perl, php or cgi programmer), or hand
editing / saving configuration files for every domain on my server (so far
I've got over 40).

Thanks!

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Julia Jacobs
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