Counter Info - Emailing

Hello,

My knowledge is very limited of PHP, but I do have a basic understanding. I am trying to set up a counter while gaining some info about the visitor (referrer, browser, ip, country, etc.). Now this can either go to a designated txt file or can be e-mailed directly to me. If it does go to a txt file, is there a way to set up a command to have the content within the txt file, e-mailed to me? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Brandon

Yeah sure, you could just do both. I have to say, though, having user text uploaded to a file is something to avoid if possible, unless you are really an expert at security.

Thanks Mason for getting back with me. I was not talking about a user uploading file but instead a website hit counter. So that I can track how many visitors I have coming to my website. I want to gather the information that a visitor's computer give such as ip, referrer, browser, country and etc. and have them sent to me via e-mail. And I am at a loss on how to set the coding to accomplish that particular task. Any help would be great, thanks.

Brandon

I've never done this and I'm no email expert -- that said, my initial approach would be:

First, use a sniffer to set variables representing the various bits of information, such as

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$browser= $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

Then use the php mail() function and echo the variables inside the message. My first thought would be to do a series of "if" statements with concats, like

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$message_txt = 'Counter information for www.mysite.com: /n/n';

if ($browser) {
$message_txt .= "Browser: $browser /n";
} else {
$message_txt .= "No browser detected /n";
}

Newline characters can be tricky in mail programs so check your php.ini and read some documentation.

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