Tracking each time someone click's a pdf

[Peter]

Does anyone know where I can find sample code that will help me track
whenever a user clicks on a pdf file ? My Isp provides me with a
logfile but it doesn't give me any type of description of what pdf it
was. Ideally I shouldn't even have to look at the log file.

I can see:
12 12675231 /broch/111100167.pdf

But I need something that will give a description like
12 12675231 /broch/111100167.pdf 8754 First St. San
Jose


Thanks,
Pete

ps. renaming the file by combining the file name + description isn't an
option.

 

[David Dorward]

Does anyone know where I can find sample code that will help me track
whenever a user clicks on a pdf file ? My Isp provides me with a
logfile but it doesn't give me any type of description of what pdf it
was. Ideally I shouldn't even have to look at the log file.

I can see:
12 12675231 /broch/111100167.pdf

But I need something that will give a description like
12 12675231 /broch/111100167.pdf 8754 First St. San

I'd write a script that could read the log file and add the description to
it. It should be pretty trivial depending on where the description comes
from.

 

[Roy Schestowitz]

__/ [Peter] on Saturday 14 January 2006 00:31 \__

Does anyone know where I can find sample code that will help me track
whenever a user clicks on a pdf file ? My Isp provides me with a
logfile but it doesn't give me any type of description of what pdf it
was. Ideally I shouldn't even have to look at the log file.

I can see:
12 12675231 /broch/111100167.pdf

But I need something that will give a description like
12 12675231 /broch/111100167.pdf 8754 First St. San
Jose


Thanks,
Pete

ps. renaming the file by combining the file name + description isn't an
option.

If you have a Linux box or emulation of Linux on another operating system,
apply the following example command to your log file.

sed 's/111100167.pdf/111100167.pdf 8754 First St. San Jose/i;'
logfile_input >logfile_output

sed 's/111100168.pdf/111100168.pdf 8789 Somewhere/i;'
logfile_input >logfile_output

[...]

It's a batch-mode search-and-replace (make it a script to replace everything
you typically would), which you can periodically run on a Linux server, for
example. I am not sure what you are trying to achieve, but I imagine that
you want to deliver a client a self-explanatory log file.

Hope it helps,

Roy