Contemplate Reporter
1.0b
27 May 2003
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
29 Aug 2003
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
30 Oct 2003
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.
1.0.2
21 Nov 2003
The $URL_rewrite_flag variable is now properly declared as a global in PHP
functions. This problem primarily affected the Flattener and only affected
the PHP version of Contemplate.
1.0.3
18 May 2004
No changes were made to the Reporter in this release.
1.0.4
06 Aug 2004
IP addresses in all the Reporter views now include links to an ARIN
WHOIS lookup, so that you can easily check the owner of an IP address
and find out more about your visitors. Also, page names in the Reporter views
include links to the corresponding page in your site.
1.1.0
10 Dec 2004
The log site traffic option in preferences.ini is now set to 0 by default
in new Contemplate downloads, since leaving this on caused problems for some
webmasters who weren't ready to use it. When you're ready to use Contemplate
to log your site traffic, just change this value to 1.
Reporter.php now runs without warning messages if you've lowered your PHP error reporting level to show warnings. All internal variables are properly initialized to enable this change.
We've changed one instance of getYear() to getFullYear() in reporter.asp to improve Y2K compatibility.
1.1.1
19 May 2005
The Raw Logs link on the Months page has pointed to the wrong location since
the previous version. It now points to the correct location: ../data/reporter.