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.