So we plan to track a user's activity within our website which are in PHP. What we want to know is track a unique session for a user from the time he first visits a page in our site, the pages he visited next, and visited last.

Some kind of tracking his footprint through our site. We actually have identified 2 methods:

• using a custom PHP code
• analytics.js.

We find analytics.js too much for this (and my take more time to setup including time for our Internal Team to familiarize/learn the tool). Considering what we need is just getting the timelogs of the user's session.

So we'll most likely be going with a custom code added to each of the pages that need tracking. This script will do the following:

• we will be pasting code snippets to pages that need tracking
• generate a unique session ID once he lands on any of the tracked pages
• records the activity on a database
• create an admin dashboard to visualize each of the user's activity, just a simple UI to showing the timelogs and pages visited

That's our plan so just wondering:

Questions:

• Is the above method acceptable?
• Are there any other alternatives that what was described above?

Thanks in advance Warrior Forum community!