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Updated on 2025-04-08

Generate your own LOG file using PHP


If your server does not allow you to read its LOG file, then you have to stop and analyze your visitors? Make your own LOG file!
All you have to do is to use PHP to calculate the actual number of clicks, no errors, no errors like '304 Not Modified' and 'Internal Server Error'. Your code will generate its own LOG file.


<?php

/* User-defined variables */
$logfile = ""; /*Where is the LOG file written */
$timezone = "+0100"; /* Timezone correction */
$lookup_size = true; /* Set file permissions */
$document_root = "/usr/local/apache/share/htdocs";

/* He may or cannot count the same client
* You must set the $document_root variable to work
*/

function write_to_log($str) {
if($fd = @fopen($GLOBALS[ "logfile"], "a")) {
fputs($fd, $str);
fclose($fd);
}
}

function get_var($name,$default) {
if($var = getenv($name)) {
return $var;
} else {
return $default;
}
}

if($remote_host = get_var( "REMOTE_HOST", false)) {
$remote_host = get_var( "REMOTE_ADDR", "-");
}
$remote_user = get_var( "REMOTE_USER", "-");
$remote_ident = get_var( "REMOTE_IDENT", "-");
$server_port = get_var( "SERVER_PORT", 80);
if($server_port!=80) {
$server_port = ":" . $server_port;
} else {
$server_port = "";
}
$server_name = get_var( "SERVER_NAME", "-");
$request_method = get_var( "REQUEST_METHOD", "GET");
$request_uri = get_var( "REQUEST_URI", "");
$user_agent = get_var( "HTTP_USER_AGENT", "");
if($lookup_size == true && $document_root) {
$filename = ereg_replace( "\?.*", "", $request_uri);
$filename = "$document_root$filename";
if(!$size = filesize($filename)) {
$size = 0;
}
} else {
$size = 0;
}

$date = gmdate( "d/M/Y:H:I:s");
$log = "$remote_host $remote_ident $remote_user [$date $timezone] \"".
"$request_method http://$server_name$server_port$request_uri\" 200 $size\n";

write_to_log($log);

?>