Dass — Sat, 15 May 1999 01:58:00 +0000

Thanks!
Should have thought of that!

How would I open it though? or would it open "prepared"?

Dass — Sat, 15 May 1999 00:55:00 +0000

The main problem is how will I collect all the values and keys inside the %associative arrays when im calling up the .txt and getting all the data?

Sat, 15 May 1999 00:34:00 +0000

My dirty trick for this problem is to use Perl to generate Perl source code that defines the associative array. You print that code in a file and you can simply require it to get the info.

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Dass — Fri, 14 May 1999 19:05:00 +0000

I am using associative arrays because, I want the stats program to get how many people use a browser, and how many people came from the same http_refer

for example.

browsers, if the certain type of browser the visitor is not using isnt in the %associative array, than that KEY will be placed in it with a VALUE of 1. If a visitor comes using IE4, and IE4 is already in the array, than

than 1 will be added to the value for IE4.

Understand or no?

Joseph Bannon — Fri, 14 May 1999 17:43:00 +0000

I think you should store everything in 5 files, once for each.

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Fri, 14 May 1999 17:12:00 +0000

dass, let me ask a simple question: why do you want to use associative arrays at all???
if you store information like this:
file 1 = counting hits. as I interpreted your variable names, you will just need to get one number for totalhist, one for the each site the user came from.....
file 2= used browsers

you'll have no problem anymore, do you?

if this doesn't help or I misunderstood something, please tell me what kind of data you'll need for your statistics and we sure can help you more...

cu
patrick

Dass — Fri, 14 May 1999 01:11:00 +0000

OK. So far there is not too much code, but I have begun creating a Site Statistics program.

As for the split stuff.
$totalhits------Total # of hits

$totaluniquehits-Totl # of Unique

@uniquehits-contains an array of visitors REMOTE_HOST

%browsers-an associative array of types of browsers as the keys, with values of how many people have used that browser

%referdom -An associative array of where visitors came form, and how many visitors came from there as the value.

Now, can all of this info be stored/used in the CGI program? or how else can I do this?

Joseph Bannon — Fri, 14 May 1999 00:50:00 +0000

I think we should have an option to turn the smiles off.

Joseph Bannon — Fri, 14 May 1999 00:49:00 +0000

Try this:

open(FILE,"file.txt");
@filedata = <FILE>;
close(FILE);

($totalhits,$totaluniquehits,$uniquehits,$browsers,$referdom)=split(/:/,@filedata[0]);

Without seeing the rest of the code, I can't really tell what you are trying to do.

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