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Puffin

04-22-2006, 08:01 AM

Good Morning! :)

I made the update from 1.5 beta to RC 1 yesterday in the evening and from this moment on my visitor number did not change...
First I thought this is a problem with my database but I observed the same at other sides as well...:confused:

btw. my other photoblog (www.view-s.de) runs on the same database but still with 1.5 beta and the counter functions....

If this is completely wrong here please delete this thread....I am just a user...:rolleyes:

Jens

http://www.look-s.de

Connie

04-22-2006, 09:01 AM

Jens,

there are some things which might bring problems at your photoblog ;=(

1) please: do use UTF-8-charset in your templates as all special characters, umlauts etc. are stored in that format!

your templates still have this:
meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

2) it is not good to have comments before the doctype-declaration in the html-files.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

3) validation shows 39 errors in your index.php, that is too much unfortunately
4) you have hard linebreak in your rss-link unfortunately

which visitor-counter are you using?

Puffin

04-22-2006, 09:20 AM

Hi Connie,
thanks für your answer. Unfortunately I am not skilled in webprogramming and finally I understand only that something is wrong with my index.php which I changed only for the akismet plug-in and at the RSS - feed section for the image size of the thumbnails.

Well I try to get some help with your remarks in the evening.

My counter (located on the about page) is at the bottom on the right and is just the tag of PP....it worked well in 1.43 and 1.5 beta....and still works at view-s.de with 1.5 beta.

Regards,
Jens

Sergio de la Torre

04-23-2006, 04:29 AM

I'm using advanced stats addon. When i upgraded to 1.5RC1 the counter stopped :confused:

Any idea?

Connie

04-23-2006, 06:57 AM

another user noticed that as well, that is one thing which must be fixed

Vernon.Trent

04-23-2006, 08:56 AM

yes, my counter also stopped.

Joe[y]

04-23-2006, 10:24 AM

a change has been made to the advanced stats addon which i assume must be a fix for this.. sadly our cvs repository which tells us what each edit is done for isn't keeping up with us! hehe.

greenperro

04-23-2006, 02:49 PM

oops, didn't see this thread. I replied to a similar posting in the help section. I'm having the same problem after upgrade too.

-mike

folgerj

04-25-2006, 04:28 PM

My count stopped (apparently with my upgrade this morning) The index is reporting the number of lines in the database (146) but the next autoindex shows 431. I just had someone comment and the count is still at 146. This morning I was at 425+/-:confused:
My info:
URL http://vistaphotos.net/blog/admin/index.php

PHP-version 4.4.1 (Pixelpost's min requirement: PHP version: 4.3.0 )

MySQL version 4.0.16 (Pixelpost's min requirement: MySQL: 3.23.58 )

GD-lib bundled (2.0.28 compatible) with JPEG support

File Uploads to pixelpost site are possible.

Server Software Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/0.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7g

EXIF Pixelpost is using exifer v1.5 for EXIF-information.

Paths
Guessed imagepath: /home/vistapho/public_html/blog/images/

Configured Imagepath: /home/vistapho/public_html/blog/images/

Image Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES. CHMOD: 0777

Thumbnails Directory: OK - Can we write to the directory? YES. CHMOD: 0777

Language Directory: OK

Addons Directory: OK

Includes Directory: OK

Templates Directory: OK

cmckibbin

04-25-2006, 08:37 PM

Yepyep, would love to see a fix to this issue ;]

raminia

04-25-2006, 08:55 PM

in the admin panel >> options >> general and at the bottom you see
Book visitors

is it set to yes or no? it should be YES

folgerj

04-25-2006, 08:55 PM

']a change has been made to the advanced stats addon which i assume must be a fix for this.. sadly our cvs repository which tells us what each edit is done for isn't keeping up with us! hehe.

Not that it probably matters but mine stopped at: 2006-04-24 14:27:22 This is several hours before I upgraded to 1.5. It seems to be pulling the number of rows which is 146. I had at the time it stopped at 431 which is labled as Next Autoindex in my DB.

I've found from all of this that my really fast climbing numbers are due mostly to all the bots and rss feeds hitting my blog. Is there anyway to determine what a real person hit would be and have only those numbers shown. This would be much more revealing to how we're really doing. I was wondering why I wasn't getting to many comments... Bots don't leave comments...

raminia

04-25-2006, 09:00 PM

booking every hit is almost useless. we stopped to support that in 1.5 BETA because of several security issues. but we added it with a ON/OFF switch in 1.5RC. to know how many visitors you have you can try google analytics which is very more powerfull. There is no need of a software like Pixelpost to track every visitor. there are many many good tools out there for free to do that.

blinking8s

04-26-2006, 06:24 AM

I dont even want to track visitors, but by user demand many want to display it on their blog...even before it tracked uniques....which is just lying to yourself it its not a unique IP count really...

but for real stats, ramins last post is correct...MUCH better free stuff out there to use.

fifi

04-26-2006, 03:06 PM

I have also the problem that the counter stopped, after upgrade from beta 1.5 to rc1
http://www.fifi.at

6521 visits
an the addon shows the same and is on.

any solution :rolleyes:

GeoS

04-26-2006, 11:15 PM

http://forum.pixelpost.org/showpost.php?p=28766&postcount=16

Im closing this topic as solved. All comments please put to topic linked above.

Solved at CVS and under link above.

Im merging 3 topics.

folgerj

04-27-2006, 02:11 PM

']a change has been made to the advanced stats addon which i assume must be a fix for this.. sadly our cvs repository which tells us what each edit is done for isn't keeping up with us! hehe.
I'll though this out there and based on the fact that I'm not a sql programmer please be patient. I looked in index.php and you are calling .$pixelpost_db_prefix. visitors"" and in my database it calls it "pixelpost_prefix". assuming the period and dollar sign are programming conventions does the fact that the _db_ doesn't match up cause any problems for the visitor count?

Piercey

04-27-2006, 02:42 PM

I had over 40000 visitors before the update. Now it says only 2258. :(

I went into phpmyadmin looking to fix the number but couldn't find anything. Any idea on how to change the number so it reflects what it should be?

Thanks!

Joe[y]

04-27-2006, 06:03 PM

this is fixed and you'll see the result of the fix in 1.5final.

by the way, 40000 visitors or whatever is not an accurate representation of unique visitors - Pixelpost recommends you employ a third party stats system, for example google analytics.

elis

04-27-2006, 06:15 PM

']Pixelpost recommends you employ a third party stats system, for example google analytics.
Hi, Joe[y],
have you (or anyone) an invitation code of Google Analytics for me?
Thank you! :)

Vernon.Trent

04-27-2006, 06:48 PM

http://www.sitemeter.com/
is a pretty nice service and free.

blinking8s

04-27-2006, 07:22 PM

http://haveamint.com worth every penny of the $30

Joe[y]

04-27-2006, 07:56 PM

you sign up on a list and they send you an invite not long after - i got an invite 2 or 3 days later actually... it's well worth the wait (although i use haveamint.com - but you have to pay for that)

GeoS

04-27-2006, 10:21 PM

And I didnt get any invitation to google analytics for about half a year :/

dfreye78

04-28-2006, 07:07 AM

I found the reason for stopped counter after upgrade to RC1 version:

includes/functions.php line 214 reading now

VALUES(NULL','$datetime','$host','$referer','$ua', '$ip','$ruri')";

should read correctly

VALUES(NULL,'$datetime','$host','$referer','$ua',' $ip','$ruri')";

this solves the problem!

Greatings
Dieter

Sergio de la Torre

04-28-2006, 01:02 PM

Fine!! Thanks dfreye78 :)

GeoS

04-28-2006, 09:41 PM

dfreye78:L Your solution work not in 100% but mine yes!!!!! Did you try mine?

Now Im wondering if I should edit your post?

One more time - 100% working solution (also with new MySQL 5 server because all problems with yours can be at this platform) is here:
http://forum.pixelpost.org/showpost.php?p=28766&postcount=16

PS Im closing this topic as solved.