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I have a site where my host provides AWSTATS to track hit's view's etc...

On this site, I have users who logon to my site which uses PHP and a MySQL DB to store the user logon's and passwords.

But AWSTATS isn't picking up on these users as authenticated users. Is there a line of code or something I need to use to track users?

I also have Google Analytics installed on this site, and it doesn't seem to have an option for tracking individual users. Is there a way to do this?

What I am trying to accomplish is tracking of users; pages viewed, number of visits, and their IP addresses. What is the best way to go about this?

Solutions:

Forms authentication (what you're using) doesnt show as a real user for AWStats. You need to use basic authentication to get that to work, and in my opinion, its not worth it. You would be better off making your own stats logger in PHP if you need to track individual people around.

>> I also have Google Analytics installed on this site, and it doesn't seem to have an option for tracking individual users. Is there a way to do this?

No it only tracks trends.

As I said, if you want full user tracking, implement your own system that can feed off the session variables. Neither Analytics or AWStats will be able to help you here.


http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/User_Management/
http://www.php.net/session
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/class/21.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/excerpt/webdbapps_8/index.html
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/00/05/index2a_page7.html?tw=programming