Quick and Dirty Hit Notifier

[lisag]

From time to time I like to get instant notification when my site is visited. I do this especially on landing pages when I first start promoting them. I do it all the time on my freelance portfolio site so I can see when people are checking me out.

It's not an elegant solution but it works for me. It might be something you would want to use, so here it is. It's in PHP. Just install it at the top of your index.php, after any include file statements, or add it to your config.php.

// send the admin an email
// Remember to change the values for $sitename and $admin_email!
$ttime = date("F j, Y, g:i a");
$sitename = 'Your site name goes here';
$admin_email = 'youremail@address.com';
$ip = getip();
$host = gethostbyaddr($ip); //Native PHP function
$origin = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
if (empty($origin)){$origin = 'an unknown link ';}
$message = "A visitor from $host ($ip) visited via $origin at $ttime.";
$subject = "New visitor to $sitename";
mail($admin_email,$subject,$message);
function getip() {
if (isSet($_SERVER)) {
if (isSet($_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"])) {
$realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
} elseif (isSet($_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"])) {
$realip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CLIENT_IP"];
} else {
$realip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
}
} else {
if ( getenv( 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' ) ) {
$realip = getenv( 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' );
} elseif ( getenv( 'HTTP_CLIENT_IP' ) ) {
$realip = getenv( 'HTTP_CLIENT_IP' );
} else {
$realip = getenv( 'REMOTE_ADDR' );
}
}
return $realip;
}

[GraphicsGurl]

Thanks for sharing! I'm going to use this on a couple of my sites..

[devilishsaint]

Its working well for me thanks for sharing good work

[Andrew G Gowans]

Thank you Lisa G,

I have a few totally new sites to which I can apply this and monitor the activity.

Regards
Andrew G.

[FifthDimension5]

This is great, the script mails you when a visitor lands on your page.

You can get even more stats (real time web stats) by using
whos.amung.us/

(free instantly see where your visitors are from)

For more advanced real time tracking including mouse movements of visitors there is this site: clixpy.com

[lisag]

I updated the code to replace the missing statement that adds the date and time of the visit to the email.

So if you are running the script and your notification email message ends with "at" and no date and time, just recopy the code at the top of this thread and reinstall.