A simple html website visitor log

[phokur]

Hello there, can anybody point me in the right direction for a html approach to logging a person's ip when they visit your website? I have had so many people ask me for a myspace solution to seeing who is viewing their profile. I remember seeing a javascript way of doing it awhile back, but myspace does not allow anything other than html. The only way I know it's possible is this guy wrote one in php that works in myspace: http://www.danasoft.com/  I don't know php, but can anybody explain to me how he did it? He won't answer my emails. I've searched and can't turn anything up. I know some javascript, a good bit of html, and java if it matters. Thanks anybody willing to help, Scott

[Blackberry]

You can't do this by html, pehraps you can write it in PHP and import it with html, but there is now way you can do this in html

[phokur]

Yea that's how I assume danasoft.com did it. If I try to view the source of it I just get jibberish. I'd be happy with the php and importing it, but can anybody help me out or point me to a site that can?

[Rob Pomeroy]

"Simple" (he says).  You can use PHP to output a graphic image.  That image can be a blank (transparent) single pixel.  The PHP script that outputs the image can also do anything else that a PHP script can do, including logging the requesting IP address.  You'd need to host the PHP on a PHP-enabled web server.  Possibly you could use the PHP to track the IP visits in a MySQL database.

[phokur]

Can you link me to a site or something with an example of what you mean? Thanks for the reply though!

[Rob Pomeroy]

I haven't seen any specific examples; I just know what can be done.  Go over to the PHP official documentation.  Check out the image function section.

[death-of-dos]

you can always install a statcounter ( http://www.statcounter.com ) in your pages to log your visitors. it does show you their ip addresses.

[phokur]

That sounds like it would work, I went ahead and set up an account for a invisible counter that was pure html. It gave me this snippet:
<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank">[/url]
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

I insert it and myspace immediately turns it into my code into:

<a href="http://www.../" target="_blank">..[/url]

Any ideas why or how to fix this?

[Rob Pomeroy]

MySpace obviously strips bits out that it doesn't like.  All you need is this bit though:

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<img src="http://c15.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=1525483&java=0&securit y=a2bf4068&invisible=1" alt="counter hit xanga" border="0">

[phokur]

It turns that code into

..

Two dots... it must really hate javascript. is there any way to have it on a different website than somehow have it still count my myspace? Like importing it? Or shortcutting it...

[Rob Pomeroy]

Try this instead:

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<img src="http://c15.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=1525483&security=a2bf4068&invisible=1">Does that work?

[phokur]

Nope man, it alters the code as soon as I submit it  :-?

Here are a couple screenshots...

Before when inserting the code:


After I submit it:

[Rob Pomeroy]

That bites.  There's no reason for that to be edited out.  Does it allow you to link to any external images?

[phokur]

Yea, I can show external pictures, videos... heck I even put games on there from addictinggames.com
This code works fine for it, I got it from google.video, they have a put in your website link that gives you the code.

<embed allowScriptAccess="never"         style="width:650px; height:400px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://farm.addictinggames.com/D78AQSAKQLQWI9/2159.swf" allowScriptAccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="..ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL"  FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"> </embed>

It's pretty much the same as a personal website except it doesn't allow anything other than html. Maybe this is why nobody does it... it can't be done  :-?

[phokur]

That last post gave me an idea.

<embed allowScriptAccess="never"            style="width:0px; height:0px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://c15.../counter.php?sc_project=1525483&java=0&securit y=a2bf4068&invisible=1" allowScriptAccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="..ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL"  FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"> </embed>

I tried it, myspace doesn't edit it out. And it's invisible if I change the height and width. Not sure if it works though. I'll keep an eye on the statcounter site and see if I get any views. But it should work right?