Php-Stats Setup

Advanced Configuration

There are a series of variables not essential to the operation of the script, but useful for those who wish advanced settings.

These options are in the file config.php:

$option[‘prefix’]=’xxx’; xxx is the prefix for the Php-Stats tables stored into mySQL.

Of course, don’t change it AFTER the installation.

(default = ‘php_stats’)

$option[‘callviaimg’]=X; 1: invokes the script through a transparent image size of 1x1

pixels (default)

0: call the script via JavaScript

Call by image has some advantages in terms of speed (the JS could

cause slowdowns to pages tracking).

If you are going to include the monitoring string between tags

<head> </head> you have to set this parameter to 0.

$option[‘persistent_conn’]=X; 1: uses a persistent connection to mySQL

0: the connection is opened and closed as needed

Recommended the value 0.

$option[‘autorefresh’]=X; X represents delay in minutes for automatic Php-Stats admin

pages refresh.

$option[‘show_server_details’]=X; Display server information in the main page.

1: show / 0: don’t show

$option[‘show_average_user’]=X; Show information about average user in the main page.

1: show / 0: don’t show

$option[‘short_url’]=X; Uses shortened URLs when possible on reports.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘ext_whois’]=””; The empty string ("") involves the use of the internal whois script.

If you want to use an external one, input its url (http://www...).

The variable containing the IP must be written as %IP%.

(example: http://whoisservice.com/?query=%IP%).

$option[‘online_timeout’]=X; Set 0 to use the automatic determination for the time a visitor

remain on the site; or enter the number of minutes regarded

as time-out (default: 5 minutes).

$option[‘page_title’]=X; Storing title of page views.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘refresh_page_title’]=X; 0: uses the title already stored previously.

1: stores the current title of the page (updated).

$option[‘log_host’]=X; Storing the hostname in the details, otherwise the only IP.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘clear_cache’]=X; Continuous recognition of cached data.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘logerrors’]=X; Log in the file php-stats.log errors generated from queries

or other major events.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘check_new_version’]=X; Notify availability of a new version of Php-Stats

(via email and message on the admin.php page)

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘bcap_auto_update’]=X; Automatic database updates for recognition of the browser,

systems and search engines (Browscap).

NB: it is necessary that your server allows connections

outwards.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘www_trunc’]=X; Set 1 to consider ‘http://www.' and ‘http://‘ the same url.

This avoiding double counting in the case of domains that allow

both extensions. Set to 0 otherwise.

$option[‘ip-zone’]=X; 0: disable recognition of the country by IP address

1: recognition of the country by Database (default)

$option[‘down_mode’]=X; 0: redirects

1: force download file

2: deprecated, will be removed soon

$option[‘check_links’]=X; Validate links entered for Click and Download.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘link_logger’]=X; Automatically intercepts all links on page and

records the clicks.

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$option[‘keep_view_mode’]=X; Retains the last display mode used in the pages of Php-Stats

(for example the choice of showing the URL instead of the title).

1: enabled / 0: disabled

$default_pages=array(…) This array contains default pages recognized from your server.

In this way pages as http://site.com, http://site.com/index.htm

or http://site.com/index.php are considered the same page by Php-Stats.