Session and cookie-based traffic tracking

[trigger]

With session.start auto-configured on my webserver, I want to make my surfers sign up before they can access some premium content (selected pages, pdfs, etc.), but I want the session/cookie to store every page they access BEFORE they register, so I can get a complete picture of the content they have accessed. I want the register info plus all surfed pages accessed by that user/cookie/session to be emailed to me upon their departure from my site, whether it be closing the browser, backing up and out, going to a fabvorite, typing in the address bar, etc. Anybody know where I can get started on some scripts like this?

[DarkAngelBGE]

Hmm...I dunno if it's utterly significant that the information gets emailed to you immediatly when adress bar typed etc. You would get a thousand mails per day maybe.

Why not record a user's IP, then put all urls visited into this datarow and once the user with ip officially registers the email gets sent. So you only get one mail per new registered user.

[trigger]

I get approximately 500-1500 page requests a day, so it might be a good idea. Only if the user registers would I get that email, in a perfect PHP world. OK, I'll go look for some IP-recognizing functions, and be back with more ????s

[trigger]

OK, I'm not getting emails yet, and it doesn't redirect to the header location, but I'm not getting errors either...

<?php 
    if (getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP") && strcasecmp(getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP"), "unknown"))
            $ip = getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP");
        else if (getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR") && strcasecmp(getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"), "unknown"))
            $ip = getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");
        else if (getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") && strcasecmp(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"), "unknown"))
            $ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
        else if (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] && strcasecmp($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], "unknown"))
            $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
        else
            $ip = "unknown";
    return($ip);
    mail('webmaster@domain.com' , 'The IP Is...', $ip);
    header ( "Location: http://www.domain.com/index.htm");
?>

Got this off the php website.... Took the longer one, because it doesn't error out. See
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.getenv.php

[DarkAngelBGE]

Umm..make sure the parameters in your mail function are correct..