where to put a "hit counter"

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I plan to write a hit counter to record the following information:

userAgent

urlReferrer

url

userHostAddress

userHost

time, etc.

I am wondering how to implement this: an extention, module, or something different.

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A widget. You can put this widget in the layout so that it is used for each page display. Inside the widget, you can then record the needed page request information.

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Thanks, that is fast.

I will write the widget and then share it here once it is done.

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moho can u share ur widget when done? thanks

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if this is only viewable by you, you could always take advantage of google analytics, incredibly easy to install.  ;)

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Hi, it is done for now and I am testing it. Currently it is implemented as a model with a seperate database. I will try to implement it as a widget later on.

DrakNSF, I am using google analytics but google does not record the following information:

IP address,

detailed agent info (such as what browser and what kind of computer),

detailed referral information,

detailed time of visit,

and more importantly, Yii-specific information such as username. :)

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most of the data can be found in web server logs, such as apache custom log http://httpd.apache…ig.html#formats