The Stickybeak

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The Stickybeak is a versatile website logging system written in the PHP scripting language. It's major features include:

• Image based loging
• Cookie based user tracking
• Cross domain user tracking
• P3P architecture
• Logs to a MySQL database
• Highly configurable
• User defined variables

The stickybeak uses dynamically generated images to provide a cross domain logging solution for websites. The system utilizes P3P architecture, allowing a single cookie to identify users across multiple domains. Comprehensive raw logs for any number of websites are stored in a single MySQL database table. The raw logs can be periodically analyzed and summarized using predefined criteria, the results of which are presented via a web interface. Multiple reports can be generated on the basis of domain, date, operating system etc. Alternately the entire log table results can be summarized into a single report, providing an insight into users movements between any number of different domains and websites.

Sample Log Entry

The following table shows the the information that The Stickybeak has collected about the current page request. This information has been stored in a database for later retrieval.

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