Steps in Creating a Simple User Log
If you want to keep track of who has been visiting your web site and their destination, it would be a good idea for you to create a simple user log. The user log that will be used here will be stored in on a flat file and will store four basic functions: a) Time when the user accessed your page; b) User’s IP address; c) If available, the user’s referrer, and; d) User’s browser. Make a log.html and CHMOD it to 777, giving all permissions to the file. Use the date () function to set time. The four basic functions are built into PHP (all you need to do is to define the functions and send them to a log HTML file) so all other variables are already predefined. Using fopen (), the second part of the script will open up log.html and write the data in using fputs ().