SOS - tracking page/user details - SOS

[Pasha]

Hi, thanks for viewing this thread...

I need to find a script that creates an external file and stores this info:

- name of user;
- pages browsed and time spent on each page.

Please reply if you've designed/seen something like this.

Thanks,
Pasha

[the-FoX]

i haven't designed something like this but....
did the web users ahve to look in ?
do you have access to the username ?

than you can do the following:
- create a data store directory where you'll save for every user a textfile containg the sites he has visited
- every page you want to track, you have to use php at the beginningt (session_start())
- when the user opens the first page and the session varibale e.g. $already_visited isn't set, the variable willl be set and the url and time and so on will be logged in his personal data file
- so you can track every suer...

but is it allowed to track users by name ?

[Pasha]

Thanks! Yes, I need to know the names of users. I have their permission because this is a research project. We are trying to figure out what influences the way people read hypertext.

Thanks again.