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Posted by Xueilonox on November 1, 2004, 11:13 pm
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I'm working on a project that has a website with some streaming video. We're
tracking clicks on the custom video player (Windows Media Player) to a
mysql database (requirement).
Is there a tool/package out there (free or pay), that would allow us to
generate reports against the database? The reports are going to marketing
people so they need to produce pretty graphics. That's not a requirement
as far as I'm concerned, but it would be nice.
BTW, I'm not a webmaster so any obvious answers are not apparent. Thanks in
advance.
PS: Also posted in alt.www.webmasters
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Posted by Michael Vilain on November 1, 2004, 7:35 pm
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> I'm working on a project that has a website with some streaming video. We're
> tracking clicks on the custom video player (Windows Media Player) to a
> mysql database (requirement).
>
> Is there a tool/package out there (free or pay), that would allow us to
> generate reports against the database? The reports are going to marketing
> people so they need to produce pretty graphics. That's not a requirement
> as far as I'm concerned, but it would be nice.
>
> BTW, I'm not a webmaster so any obvious answers are not apparent. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> PS: Also posted in alt.www.webmasters
Can you explain more clearly what your want to do to "generate reports
against the database"? What are you looking for, specifically--reports
on utilization of the mysql database or web site analysis of the logs?
Website traffic analysis tools abound, some free, some not, some really
pricey. If they're "marketing people" who want graphs, you'll probably
have to go with the pricey. I've only ever used the free UNIX tools
like "analog".
Any package you buy won't tell you "What does this mean?" or "What am I
seeing here with this graph?" which you'll get with marketing types.
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Posted by Xueilonox on November 2, 2004, 5:36 am
Please log in for more thread options Michael Vilain wrote:
>
>
> Can you explain more clearly what your want to do to "generate reports
> against the database"? What are you looking for, specifically--reports
> on utilization of the mysql database or web site analysis of the logs?
>
> Website traffic analysis tools abound, some free, some not, some really
> pricey. If they're "marketing people" who want graphs, you'll probably
> have to go with the pricey. I've only ever used the free UNIX tools
> like "analog".
>
> Any package you buy won't tell you "What does this mean?" or "What am I
> seeing here with this graph?" which you'll get with marketing types.
>
Normally, you would run a program that generates a report based on your web
logs (how many hits, what page, etc). In this case, we have a media player
that's logging the information we want into a database (who hit play, stop,
rewind, etc). The important things is, we have the information.
Now, I'm trying to determine if there are any packages that would generate a
usage report from the information in the database (not the web logs). I
know we could probably write something but if some type of reporting
package will do it, that would be preferrable.
Hope that's a little more clear. TIA.
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Posted by Mark Parnell on November 2, 2004, 4:42 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:36:50 GMT, Xueilonox
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> Now, I'm trying to determine if there are any packages that would generate a
> usage report from the information in the database (not the web logs). I
> know we could probably write something but if some type of reporting
> package will do it, that would be preferrable.
Probably only something very basic if at all then, as it would depend
heavily on the database structure.
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Posted by Xueilonox on November 2, 2004, 6:51 am
Please log in for more thread options Mark Parnell wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:36:50 GMT, Xueilonox
> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
>
>> Now, I'm trying to determine if there are any packages that would
>> generate a usage report from the information in the database (not the web
>> logs). I know we could probably write something but if some type of
>> reporting package will do it, that would be preferrable.
>
> Probably only something very basic if at all then, as it would depend
> heavily on the database structure.
>
If it's just basic stuff, then basic will have to do for now. Just need
pointers. Thanks.
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http://www.digitalmerging.la
Blogging about new media and digital convergence.
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