Notify by email

[kas9]

I am trying to set up a email notification if one of the pages on my website is visited. Is there some simple code to send a small message to an email address when a page is visited.

[michaewlewis]

to do that, you would need a php script in the page which, upon load, would use the mail() function to send the message.

[soybean]

What type of info would this message contain?  Most web hosting services provide statistics on web traffic.  Would an email notification be much more useful? 

[Computer Hope Admin]

If your web host doesn't supply you with statistics (or even if they do) I'd highly recommend Google Analyitics. By far the best website traffic monitor I've seen and it's 100% free, even for a large site such as Computer Hope.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

[michaewlewis]

they may be trying to set it up for a "secure" webpage.... or maybe so they can know when a friend made it through a maze of webpages to get to that one page. hmm. could be a cool game.

[stevejohnson1958]

I don't understand why you'd want to do this....

To me...your inbox would be flooded with email...even if a bot visited it.

Why not just use the stats provided by your host to see how much activity this page is generating?

[Astoria]

I agree with saviour, your inbox will be flooded.

Why not create an "admin" page where you can see when, and by what IP adress the site (or even page) has been visited?
All that would take is some PHP and a MySQL database and your set.

That's the way I would do it.

[Computer Hope Admin]

A few years ago I wrote a wrote a Perl script that would text me each time a visitor hit a page. Got real annoying after the first day, especially at night. It's so much better to simply review logs. Although I may understand why you may do it. I created a script so I could know when a visitor was on a page and may need to chat. Unfortunately (although probably could of been adjusted) search engines frequently visited the page so in addition with high traffic to the page and search engines it really wasn't worth it.