Statistics/counter question!

Hi,

bought vBSEO yesterday, took 5 minutes to install, a few minutes to customize, this is a really smooth working product

Now my question:
We use a lot of rewrites throughout our entire site and those rewrites also show up in our statistics script (SlimStat), which is a very very practical thing.

(instead of some anonymous php pages with some variables you instantly see by the url what page someone was looking at, for example "/artikel/technik/battlemixer-stanton-sa-5/232.htm")

I noticed, that vBSEO doesn´t do that. Forum-Pages still show up as - for example "/forum/showthread.php?t=10854".

Is there a way to change that behaviour and also see the rewritten urls in our stats package?

Thanks in advance,
Gerald

Hello Gerald,

some other statisctics analyzers (such as Google Analytics) are working automatically with vBSEO URLs, but for this script small modification is required:

in inc.stats.php file
FIND:

$stat["resource"] = SlimStat::my_esc( $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] );

REPLACE WITH:

$stat["resource"] = SlimStat::my_esc( $_SERVER['VBSEO_URI'] ? $_SERVER['VBSEO_URI'] : $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] );

That should work

Works like a charm, you even support 3rd party products

Thanks very much, it _is_ much more useful

Greets,
Gerald

Oops, one more similar question:

On our homepage (hiphop.at), i output the latest posts. This is done with a variant of the external.php, which uses the following code:

PHP Code:

    // ---------------------------------------------------
    // FUNCTION: output_NewestReplies
    // DETAIL:   Outputs X newest threads ordered by
        //           last post descending. $a
    //           specifies amount to show (Default 5)
        //           and $f can specify certain forums
    //           to grab from (1,3,4), by default it pulls
        //           from all forums.
    // ---------------------------------------------------

    function output_NewestReplies($a = 5,$f = ""){
    global $db, $Data;

    // Define amount to show
    $Amount = ($a)? intval($a) : 5;

    // Define Forum(s) To Pull From
    $Forums = ($f)? $f: '';
    $SQL    = '';

        if($Forums){
        $SQL = " where forumid NOT in({$Forums}) and open != '10'";
        }

    // Load Template
    $Template = LoadTemplate("newest_threads.html");

    // Collect Data
    $NewestReplies = $db->query("select * from ".TABLE_PREFIX."thread{$SQL} order by lastpost desc limit 0,$Amount");

        while($Thread = $db->fetch_array($NewestReplies)){
        $Data .= ParseTemplate($Template,
                            array(
                                'threadid'     => $Thread['threadid'],
                                'threadname'   => $Thread['title'],
                                'postuserid'   => $Thread['postuserid'],
                                'postusername' => $Thread['postusername'],
                                'replies'      => vb_number_format($Thread['replycount']),
                                'views'        => vb_number_format($Thread['views']),
                                'lastposter'   => $Thread['lastposter'],
                                'date'     => $Thread['dateline'],
                                'time'     => vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $Thread['dateline']),  
                            )
            );
        }

    doOutput();
    } 


and a HTML template, which just outputs

HTML Code:

<a href='{url}/showthread.php?t={threadid}&goto=lastpost'>{threadname}</a><br />

Is it possible to also use vBSEO URLs there?

Thanks again and in advance :-)
Gerald

You can use special vBSEO functions for that: vBSEO Functions for Extensibility

Basically, this code may help:

if(@include_once('includes/functions_vbseo.php'))
$output = make_crawlable($output);

Thanks again!
I couldn´t get it to work with your function, but with a combination of the linked functions it now works like a charm!

Greets,
Gerald

Great!