Have you considered using an existing solution with metrics and reporting surrounding it? You can give read only access to clients as well.
http://edwardawebb.com/programming/php-programming/cakephp/piwik-analyze-visits-cakephp-site On Mar 30, 1:39 pm, JamesF <usaexportexpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > i did see that article but i think im goign to go with a different > approach... > > i'm making a table called visits with four fields > > id ->auto increment > listing_id ->related listing id > timestamp ->now() > ip_address ->users ip > > basically whenever a listing is view i will execute an insert on the > database logging the information. when i display the stats i will run > queries off the table. > i have a feeling this isn't going to be very MVC compliant but bottom > line is i need to get it working. i have a few concerns about database > performance but i think it will be better to do it this way than a log > file/cron job method. > > On Mar 30, 12:21 pm, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Have a look at this > > HitCountBehaviorhttp://dsi.vozibrale.com/articles/view/simple-hitcount-behavior-for-c... > > > I haven't used this, though it's been on my list of things to investigate. > > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:14 AM, JamesF <usaexportexpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a simple way of keeping track of page views. The > > > application is a rental properties website and I would like > > > advertisers who list their properties to know how many times they have > > > been viewed. > > > > Anyone have a tried and true method for this ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---