README

About extention

This extension allows you to organize the collection of data about website visitors. Data is stored in a database.

What visitor data is collected

Javascript and php are used to get information about visitors:

By Javascript:

• Detect if client cookie enabled
• Detect if java enabled
• Detect if client has totuch device
• Timezone offset
• Type connection (like 4g etc.)
• Current url
• Referer url
• Client screen width
• Client screen height
• Client color depth
• Client browser language
• Client history length
• Client processor ram

By php:

• Visitor ip address
• Visitor user agent
• Visitor referer url
• Server name
• Auth user id
• Port
• Cookies http
• Os
• Client info
• Client device type (desctop etc.)
• Device brand
• Client device model (if detect)
• Detect is bot
• Host by ip
• Is proxy or vpn
• Date and time visit

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

First download module . Run the command in the terminal:

composer require "coderius/yii2-hit-counter"

or add in composer.json

"coderius/yii2-hit-counter": "^1.0"

and run composer update

Run migrations in root folder project:

php yii migrate/to m190926_110717_hit_counter__table --migrationPath=@coderius/hitCounter/migrations

Usage

Include module in app config file. In advanced template go to common/main.php and set to config array next params:

    $conf = [
        ...
    ];
    
    $conf['modules']['hitCounter'] = [
            'class' => 'coderius\hitCounter\Module',
        ];

    $conf['bootstrap'][] = 'coderius\hitCounter\config\Bootstrap';

In view file past hit counter widget:

<?= \coderius\hitCounter\widgets\hitCounter\HitCounterWidget::widget([]); ?>

Testing

For tests neded test database and tables. Documentation about creating test db is at tests/_app/README.md.

In order to run the tests you need to do the following:

• Set alias in terminal to phpunit:

alias phpunit="/var/www/html/yii2-hit-counter/vendor/bin/phpunit"

• Go to root folder module 'yii2-hit-counter' in terminal and run tests:

phpunit