Contemplate Reporter

1.0b

5/27/03
The Reporter now includes a new way to view your site traffic: a Flash-based, real-time display. From the bottom of the Reporter's month menu, click Real-Time Display under Other Views, and a Flash (.swf) movie will open in a new window. That movie will poll your reporter/data file every few seconds and display the number of new hits on a continuously updated line chart. You can change the time period for the data polling by changing the real-time update interval setting in preferences.ini. The real-time display requires the Flash 6 plug-in.

1.0

8/29/03
The Reporter now properly displays the time and date of the last hit on the months page. Previously, it would show the time and date of the last hit from the first month in the list.

The real-time display window now opens properly in Internet Explorer for Macintosh. Previously, the window opened with a file not found error.

The get_setting function now contains an extra line to ensure that Contemplate will evaluate a setting of "0" in the preferences file as false in every language. The ASP version was evaluating "0" as true, resulting in some preference settings not taking effect.

A few visible and internal uses of the term "extractor," an earlier name for the Assembler compontent of Contemplate, have been changed to "assembler."

1.0.1

10/30/03
If you're using Apache's mod_rewrite or other software to rewrite dynamic URLs, you no longer need to use "assembled" as the string that triggers the rewrite. If you wish to use a different string, you can open each of the server-side scripts included with your version of Contemplate, look for the $URL_rewriting_flag variable definition, and change it in the script. (This setting is not available in the preferences file because the scripts need it in order to read the preferences file.)

Previously, the PHP and Perl versions of the Reporter were not properly sorting date entries in the All Dates view. All versions of the Reporter now sort the All Dates view by date.