Hey!

I've set-up webstats for my site in PHP based on files (it's a long story why) - everything works fine, but sometimes I got the values in files simply erased and it doesn't seem to be any hacking activity...

Can anyone tell me what to do to avoid such problems in future?? I've already created simple backup procedure which checks the value and if the value has been erased it brings back the last value, but still the problems with vanishing data are repeating...

I've already tried ignore_user_abort function but it didn't helped...

Help or just a hint - please!!!!

Frey

freyman,

It's pretty tough to nail down why something like that would be happening. Assuming you don't have problems in your code, the only other thing that might come to mind is file size. Are the files growing very large quickly and perhaps the PHP engine is having trouble with exceptionally large files? Again, just an idea.

I can't imagine that your host would be purging files?

I know this isn't much help -- I'm just thinking out loud in the hope it might benefit you in some way....

perhaps its a problem with the logging script, maybe it just isn't storing a value, or maybe the value is null and that is overwriting the existing value.

try setting a few debugging "stops" in your script and echo the values to the screen so you can see if they exist before they are written to your data file.

If you still can't figure it out we'll probobly need to see some code to help you any further.

Well...

1. file size isn't problem - I write only up to 10 values inside of files

2. yeah, that's what I was thinking, but I can't figure out why this is happening by the stats only and pretty rare... maybe some rarely used browsers just mess up whit this??

Thanks to both of You for help - since it didn't happen to anyone else I guess I just have to follow Cmonkey advice and improve the script to avoid writing null values to the file...

Thanks guys