When the tracking site goes down…
So, what is a geek to do when SiteMeter goes down? He writes his own tracking code and embeds it on his blog page!
Really simple PHP Code:
<?phpinclude([DATABASE CONNECTION INCLUDE]);$logtime = date("YmdHis");$ipquery = sprintf("%u",ip2long($REMOTE_ADDR));
if ($REMOTE_ADDR != [EXCLUDE SOME IPS]){ $query2 = "INSERT into logger.blog_log values ($logtime,$ipquery,'$HTTP_USER_AGENT','$HTTP_REFERER')"; mysql_query($query2) or die("Log Insert Failed"); mysql_close($link);}
print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=[IMAGE FILE]"/>";
?>
Then I create a table in my logging database to trap the results. Once I have that, I created an IFRAME call in an MT Typelist and away we go!
There is always a geeky solution to a customer service issue. If this works, I will cancel my SiteMeter subscription.
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