Tracking user activity

[aqeel]

Hi

I'm coufused about tracking a user activity on a site i wana write script in php for it but i dont have any logic in my mind, can anybody please explain me what will be the logic, how can i calculate the activity of a user on a website. I don't wana show any fancy chart, right now i just need the statistics.

regards
aqeel

[bluewalrus]

What kind of tracking? You probably want some JS monitoring if you want to know what they do on a page.

[djr33]

Ignoring Javascript tracking of actions (which can integrate if needed), the basic idea is this:
1) Create a database with user accounts.
2) Store actions performed by the users and relate them using the user ID.

Then do whatever you'd like to with the data such as creating charts or just looking at number of hits... whatever you need.