Zorbstats 0.24 review

Zorbstats is a simple Web statistics generator like BigBrotherWebstats but using PHP and MySQL . Follow next steps to install the

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Zorbstats is a simple Web statistics generator like BigBrotherWebstats but using PHP and MySQL .

Follow next steps to install the script:

tar -zxvf zorbstats-0.24.tar.gz

1) Create a database called, for example, zorbstats:

mysqladmin create zorbstats

2) Check the permission to zorbstats
you must have the right to select,update,delete,insert,create,drop,alter acces on the db zorbstats.

3) Put the zorbstats directory on your website.

4) Edit the file "statsconf.php" to set the database options.
call the page /config/install.php

5) add this line in your index.php or index.html

replace /var/www/html/zorbstats with the directory you choose

6) modify the include path in zorblogs.php & zorblogpages.php
replace /var/www/html/zorbstats with the directory you choose

7) call the stats page zorbstats.php

8) For logging a page of your site, just add this line in the top of page


replace /var/www/html/zorbstats with the directory you choose
In zorblogspages.php enter the correct parrameter for the DB connection

9) Call the page /config/zorbrefresh.php
(You can call this script each times you want to refresh all logs.)

10) You can put a counter where you want on your site
by calling this :


11) you can add a bots manualy with the page /config/config.php

Requirements:
In order to setup ZorbStats the folowing prerequisits are necessary.

A Linux Box (http://www.linux.org) Installed and working properly. It Work also on windows
Apache Web Server (http://www.apache.org)
PHP (mod_php) Apache module (http://www.php.net) compiled with library GD 2.0
MySQL database server (http://www.mysql.com)
If you are using a GD < 2.0, just replace imagecreatetruecolor() by imagecreate()
in files : zorbhourgraph.php zorbmonthgraph.php zorbyeargraph.php

The above doesn't mean it work with other configurations, OS's, DB's etc, but we only provide INSTALL instructions for the above configuration.

Set-up of these required packages is beyond the scope of this document and if you are unsure you should check with each of the appropriate web sites for further details.