[Tip and Trick] Finding out referrer of the users coming to your site

[Arantor]

Alex: yes, it probably could but it's unfortunately not as simple as that. At a minimum which portal are you using?

[Tiribulus]

Fancy running into Arantor in this thread too after he helped me out with what turned out to be this tweak in my thread.

He can explain this better than I can, it appears that the deprecated regular expression "ereg", which is used in this tweak can quickly tally up pages and pages of errors in your log.

See HERE for more info.

[Arantor]

That's not actually the problem here. Adaptation to put it in a block is not trivial.

[Tiribulus]

That's not actually the problem here. Adaptation to put it in a block is not trivial.

Were you addressing this to me?

[Arantor]

Indirectly, sorry. The last problem left in this thread was putting it into a portal block, which ereg probably won't be an issue with.

ereg being deprecated is only actually a problem on hosts that bother to update. Most users that run SMF are still running earlier 5.2 or 5.1, with a not inconsiderable percentage running 4.4 and 4.3, meaning that while this will become a problem, it probably won't be a huge problem for a while.

[Tiribulus]

Indirectly, sorry. The last problem left in this thread was putting it into a portal block, which ereg probably won't be an issue with.

ereg being deprecated is only actually a problem on hosts that bother to update. Most users that run SMF are still running earlier 5.2 or 5.1, with a not inconsiderable percentage running 4.4 and 4.3, meaning that while this will become a problem, it probably won't be a huge problem for a while.

Oh I see. I just was doing what Mr. Phil asked by putting the info from the other thread in here where the referrer thing got started. Sorry, I should have been clearer too. Nothing to do with the block question.

[- danny]

Alex: yes, it probably could but it's unfortunately not as simple as that. At a minimum which portal are you using?

TinyPortal v0.9.8

[JulesW]

I had to put in the code above the template_main_above for it to work, however, it also logs referrers which are coming from our own site. Also I replaced the ereg with preg_match. Could that be the cause? If not, any idea what could be?

(ereg gives me errors in the log: function ereg() is deprecated)

edit: Forgot to mention: I did escape the slashes with \/ but with or without, does not make a difference and every time its accompanied by the following error:

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2: preg_match() [<a href='function.preg-match'>function.preg-match</a>]: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash
forumurl/Sources/Load.php(1999) : eval()'d code
64


[Tiribulus]

<<< I had to put in the code above the template_main_above for it to work, however, it also logs referrers which are coming from our own site. >>>

I also am this way. On both counts. It seems like it didn't used to log hits from my own site though at first. I think, if I remember correctly.

I said on the previous page:

For some reason adding the code after template_main_above() broke my site in a hideous way, but adding it before works jist peachy.

[Tiribulus]

Trivial.

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if (empty($referrer) || preg_match("/slurp/", $agent) || preg_match("/bot/", $agent) || preg_match("/spider/", $agent) || preg_match("/crawler/", $agent) || preg_match("/http:\/\/gregnmary\.gotdns\.com:8080\//", $referrer)) {

I haven't tried it myself, but you may be able to simplify it to

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if (empty($referrer) || preg_match("/slurp|bot|spider|crawler/", $agent) || preg_match("/http:\/\/gregnmary\.gotdns\.com:8080\//", $referrer)) {


[JulesW]

Thanks Tiribulus, that solved my problem! I have been reading that other thread you quote, but I probably missed the fact you were talking about the refferer tip!

Also in case ppl are wondering. The

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if (empty($referrer) || preg_match("/slurp|bot|spider|crawler/", $agent) || preg_match("/http:\/\/gregnmary\.gotdns\.com:8080\//", $referrer)) {
works!

[Tiribulus]

Thanks Tiribulus, that solved my problem! I have been reading that other thread you quote, but I probably missed the fact you were talking about the refferer tip!

Also in case ppl are wondering. The

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if (empty($referrer) || preg_match("/slurp|bot|spider|crawler/", $agent) || preg_match("/http:\/\/gregnmary\.gotdns\.com:8080\//", $referrer)) {
works!

No trouble.

Except people should take note to change the URL to their own. I should have said that too.

[Tiribulus]

Does anybody know why I'm getting this error

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http://gregnmary.gotdns.com:8080/forum1/index.php?action=admin;area=logs;sa=errorlog;desc;start=0
2: preg_match(): Unknown modifier '/'
File: /srv/www/htdocs/forum1/Themes/brightforest_22/index.template.php
Line: 72 Repeatedly?

Here is the Code: Lines 72 and 73:

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if (empty($referrer) || preg_match("/slurp/", $agent) || preg_match("/bot/", $agent) || preg_match("/spider/", $agent) || preg_match("/crawler/", $agent) || preg_match("/http:\/\/gregnmary\.gotdns\.com:8080\forum1//", $referrer)) {
}Thank you very much

[Arantor]

There's a / too many in the gregnmary.gotdns.com expression.

[Tiribulus]

Thank you Arantor my old friend. Would it be that double // after forum1 at the end?

Also while were at it, did anybody ever figure out how to have this tweak not report internal hits from ip addresses on your own lan?
Thanks again

[Arantor]

Yup; the last / marked the end of the regular expression, but the extra one before it wasn't escaped properly. Either escape the second to last one (as \//) or remove it, it wouldn't hurt to leave it as a single one there.

[pearpandas]

Thanks, this will be very useful in order to really understand your analytics and how to improve them!