Script to make entries

We have our tables in place.
Its time to get with the code.

Lets get all the search engines and their attributes first.

$res_se = mysql_query('select * from search_engines', $conn);
$se = array();
while ($row_se = mysql_fetch_object($res_se)) {
    $se['id'][] = $row_se->se_id;
    $se['name'][] = $row_se->se_name;
    $se['regex'][] = $row_se->se_regex;
}


Lets collect our referers

$sql = 'select view_ref from view_log';
$res = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
$refs = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($res)) {
    $refs[] = $row->view_ref;
}
mysql_free_result($res);

Before we find out the keywords from the Referers, Let me explain how do you form a regular expression to grab out the keyword.
Let us consider someone searches a keyword “ruturaj” on google.com.
So the url where google shows the listing of my page will be
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=ruturaj&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
This will also be the referer.

The most important part of this URL is the string “q=ruturaj”, and then the keyword “ruturaj” from that string.
let us start…

/ Pattern starts..
.*google.* Allow any charecters around string “google”
?q= These will be charecters prefixing the keyword
([^&]*) Start a class, which will allow all characters. But it should not contain any &, which means any other GET query.
.* Allow any trailing characters
/i End the pattern, specifying that is case-insensitive

So the final pattern would be…
/.*google.*?q=([^&]*).*/i

We have the Search Engine Attributes, and the referers, now is the time to apply the regular expression of the search engines to referers and grab out the keyword term.

$keywords = array();
$keyword = '';
$keyword_count = 0;
$se_cnt = array();

for ($i=0; $i<count($refs); $i++) {
   for ($j=0; $j<count($se['id']); $j++) {
       if(preg_match($se['regex'][$j], $refs[$i], $matches))
       {
           $k = strtolower($matches[1]);
           if ( !isset($keywords[$k]) ) { //exists....
               $keywords[$k] = 1;
           } else {
               $keywords[$k] += 1;
           }
           if ( !isset( $se_cnt[$se['name'][$j]] ) ) { //exists....
               $se_cnt[$se['name'][$j]] = 1;
           } else {
               $se_cnt[$se['name'][$j]] += 1;
           }
           //echo "<p>$refs[$i]<br/><b>{$se['name'][$j]}</b> - " . urldecode($matches[1]) . '</p>';
           //echo "<b>{$se['name'][$j]}</b> - " . urldecode($matches[1]) . '<br/>';
           break;
       }
   }
}

Get the array sorted in descending order maintaining their indexes

arsort($keywords);
arsort($se_cnt);

Grab the indexes and the values in arrays…

$query_term = array_keys($keywords);
$query_term_cnt = array_values($keywords);

Finally strip out the url encoding out of the keyword.

$final = array();
for ($i=0; $i<count($query_term); $i++) {
    $final[] = array(urldecode($query_term[$i]), $query_term_cnt[$i]);
}

Creating tables

The first and foremost need is to have access logs, Since in this tutorial, we’ll be logging in MySQL, we need to have a table in which we can maintain a good access log.

For an access log here are the following necessary data fields

  • Accessed URL
  • Referer to the Acessed URL
  • User Agent accessing the document
  • IP of the Client
  • Datetime stamp


Access Log Table
Here is the table view_log

CREATE TABLE `view_log` (
 `view_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
 `view_url` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
 `view_ref` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
 `view_ua` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
 `view_ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
 `view_datetime` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
 PRIMARY KEY  (`view_id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT='Saves the log of viewing log'

Search Engines Table
Now we need to have a list of the Search Engines that link us to the site. I’ve taken the most popular of them, and the ones that I know..
The most important field that we have in this table is the se_regex, this field stores the regular expression, that will parse out the keyword from the referered URL.

CREATE TABLE `search_engines` (
`se_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`se_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`se_regex` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (`se_id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM COMMENT='Search Engines'

Now that we have a table structure in place lets populate some data into it.
I’ll explain the regular expressions for the engines in the next page.

INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (1,'Google','/.*google.*?q=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (2,'Yahoo','/.*yahoo.*?p=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (3,'MSN','/.*msn.*?q=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (4,'Netscape','/.*netscape.*?search=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (5,'AOL','/.*aol.*?query=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (6,'Alexa','/.*alexa.*?q=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (7,'AltaVista','/.*altavista.*?q=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (8,'AllTheWeb','/.*alltheweb.*?q=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (9,'A9','/.*a9.*?search=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (10,'DMoz','/.*dmoz.*?search=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (11,'Lycos','/.*lycos.*?query=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (12,'Terra Lycos','/.*terra.*?query=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (13,'Alexa','/.*alexa.*?q=([^&]*).*/i');
INSERT INTO search_engines VALUES (14,'Rediff','/.*rediff.*?MT=([^&]*).*/i');

Keyword Statistics Table
This table will hold keyword and its hit counter.

CREATE TABLE `keyword_search_stats` (
`keyword_search_stats` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`keyword` varchar(255) default NULL,
`keyword_count` int(11) default NULL,
`update` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
PRIMARY KEY (`keyword_search_stats`),
KEY `keyword_index` (`keyword`)
) TYPE=MyISAM

I’m creating an index on the keyword column, so that it is easier to search the keywords

Search Engine Statistics Table
This table will hold Search Engine and no. of referals from it.

CREATE TABLE `search_engine_stats` (
`search_engine_stats_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`search_engine` varchar(255) default NULL,
`search_engine_count` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`update` datetime default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`search_engine_stats_id`)
) TYPE=MyISAM

Search Engine Referer Keyword Tracking

You really want to analyze your source of traffic. Most of the times you install, use some of the free softwares available on the net. But If you are a programmer… You will want to know how to track these visitors, Search engine keywords, etc…

Here I’ll be showing the programmer’s point of view to develop a solution.

To track most of the important aspects of search engine referals, are the HTTP_REFERER and the HTTP_USER_AGENT variables.

I’m assuming you have Apache as the web server and PHP as the scripting language with my favourite MySQL as the database server.

There are two ways that you can track the above content

  • Apache access logs
  • Database logging

Keyword Hits
So the final result would be like

Keyword Hit Count
keyowrd 1 100
keyowrd 2 70
keyowrd 3 60

Search Engine Referers
Search Engine hit counts

Search Engine Ref. Count
Google 100
Yahoo 70
MSN 60

In this tutorial, I’ll be focussing on the MySQL logging. So lets begin with it.

Scales and Chords in Scale of C

This entry is part 3 of 41 in the series Guitar

We’ll now play the scale of C, The major scale of C has no sharp or flat notes, it has plain notes. The notes in scale of C are C, D, E, F, G, A, B

In any scale the 3rd and 4th note are separate by half note and same goes with the 7th and 8th note.
So when incrementing the frets, whiel playing the 4th note, just increment the 3rd note by 1 fret.

Let us play them in this fashion.

e||----------------------|----------------------|-------0----1----3----|
B||----------------------|------------0----1----|--3-------------------|
G||----------------------|--0----2--------------|----------------------|
D||-------0----2----3----|----------------------|----------------------|
A||--3-------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
E||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|

--5----7----8----8----|--7----5----3----1----|--0-------------------|
----------------------|----------------------|-------3----1----0----|
----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|

----------------------|------------||
----------------------|------------||
--2----0--------------|------------||
------------3----2----|--0---------||
----------------------|-------3----||
----------------------|------------||

All the notes have to be played in a down strokes. Play very slowly and at regular interval.

Let every note ring

Practice this 20-30 times till you can play the whole thing easily.

Alternate Picking
Now, that you can play the Note of C easily, let us start with a new way of picking strings… “Alternate Picking”
For alternate picking, every note you play, you pick in the opposite way to which you played the initial note.
ie. Start the C note by playing a down-stroke, the next note is the open String d, this you pick in up-stroke, then the E note you pick it in down-stroke, and so on…

You must grab this picking … So to start with… you do it very slowly, see every note that you pick, and register that note in your mind, and while playing that note try to find out the next note position and the type of stroke that has to be played.

Chords in Scale of C

[Tonic / Root / Key Note]    [Sub-Dominant]    [Dominant]    [Dominant 7th]
C                                  F                 G             G7
|                                  |                 |
Am                                 Dm                Em

Here is how to play each chord. Here the notations are each no. indicates finger no. 1 is the index finger, 3 is the ring finger, etc. The 0 at the begining denotes play open string. and x means do not play the string, or mute it. Each horizontal line is a fret.
C

0---|---|---|---|
|-1-|---|---|---|
|---|-2-|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
|---|---|-3-|---|
|---|---|-4-|---|

Am

0---|---|---|---|
|-1-|---|---|---|
|---|-2-|---|---|
|---|-3-|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|

F

|-1-|---|---|---|
|-1-|---|---|---|
|---|-2-|---|---|
|---|---|-3-|---|
|---|---|-4-|---|
x---|---|---|---|

You see 2 notes are to be played by the index or 1st finger, this means you need to bar the first finger, ie fret the e and B strings with 1st finger.
Dm

|-1-|---|---|---|
|---|---|-3-|---|
|---|-2-|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
|---|---|---|---|

G

|---|---|-4-|---|
|---|---|-3-|---|
0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
|---|-1-|---|---|
|---|---|-2-|---|

Em

0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
|---|-3-|---|---|
|---|-2-|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|

G7

|-1-|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
0---|---|---|---|
|---|-2-|---|---|
|---|---|-3-|---|

Firefox 1.5 released

Firefox 1.5
The latest version of Firefox, ie Firefox 1.5 (DeerPark) has been released with a new home. Mozilla.com

Here are some of the features in Firefox 1.5

  • Firefox 1.5 provides easier navigation for everyone, including those who are visually or motor-impaired. Firefox is now the first browser to support DHTML accessibility, which enables Web content to be read aloud – even new kinds of graphics-rich content. Users may navigate with keystrokes rather than mouse clicks, reducing the tabbing required to navigate documents such as spreadsheets. Firefox 1.5 is also the first browser to meet government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
  • Clear Private Data, Protect your privacy with the new Clear Private Data tool. With a single click, you can delete all personal data, including browsing history, cookies, web form entries and passwords.
  • New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
  • Improved pop-up blocking
  • Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
  • Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.

VirtualHosts little bit more…

You can make a domain run on a different port than 80, which is the default port of HTTP, in the previous examples of VirtualHost Configurations, I’ven’t specified the port, which implicitly is 80.

If you want to run the website on a different port, you need to make sure Apache is listning on that port. To do that, you set a directive Listen

Listen 8080

Alternatively you can also specify the IP on which it should listen.

Listen 67.66.65.64:8080

Now if you want to run a Name-based VirtualHost on a specific, you make sure that you set the NameVirtualHost directive to a specific port as well.

NameVirtualHost 67.66.65.64:8080

Once you’ve set the NameVirtualHost, you need to set the actual VirtualHost configuration as well.
there is just once change to be made…

<VirtualHost 67.66.65.64:8080>
...
</VirtualHost>>

Important: You should note that all the domains, ruturaj.net, www.ruturaj.net, yourname.com, should always resolve an IP address on which NameVirtualHost is defined. Without which, the configuration does not make any sense.

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