> Not directly PHP related, but I'm building a site in PHP at the moment, so > I've been doing a bit of research... > I've been on the net for years, coding and surfing and coding. And not > always in that order. ;) But only recently have I heard about web > beacons, > or single-pixel gifs. Seems every site with these beacons mentions them > in > their privacy policy. Shows you how much I pay to attention to them. I > was > just curious as to how they work. Is it just a matter of viewing server > reports to see how often that image has been accessed?
I'm sure you could do a number of things with them. It could even be a PHP script that does some logging of it's own with sessions or cookies or whatever and then outputs the data for a single pixel gif. So you could have a plain HTML page that'll still access a .php page when it's loaded to track what users are doing. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
