README.md

Light Traffic Monitor

This a simple traffic monitoring class i use in my blog. See it like a smart counter.

Use it if:

• You want a small piece of code to handle this parts
• You have no strategic needs
• You have low traffic website

Features

• Set a session with a unique id and a time to live (30 minutes).
• Don't store bots requests
• Methods to store and retrieve traffic data.

Usage

Ideally, you should have a database with a table like this:

CREATE TABLE page_views (
    id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    user_id VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    page VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    ip VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
    user_agent TEXT NOT NULL,
    timestamp DATETIME NOT NULL
);

Then you can use the class like this:

$monitor = new TrafficMonitor(LOCALHOST, DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_PORT);
$monitor->trackVisit();

Generate report

$report = $monitor->generateReport();
foreach ($report as $row) {
    dump("Page: {$row['page']}, Views: {$row['views']}") ;
}

Generate for a page in particular

$monitor->generateReportForPage($page);

Review the class for more.

⚠️ There is not so much work on this, so use it at your own risks.

Prerequisites

PHP/PDO/SQL

• tested on PHP 8.2