DemoUsage - Demo of CGI::Portable that tracks web site usage details, as well as e-mail backups of usage counts to the site owner.

	5.004

	Fcntl
	Symbol
	Net::SMTP 2.15 (earlier versions may work)

	CGI::Portable 0.50

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	use strict;
	use warnings;

	require CGI::Portable;
	my $globals = CGI::Portable->new();

	use Cwd;
	$globals->file_path_root( cwd() );  # let us default to current working dir
	$globals->file_path_delimiter( $^O=~/Mac/i ? ":" : $^O=~/Win/i ? "\\" : "/" );

	require CGI::Portable::AdapterCGI;
	my $io = CGI::Portable::AdapterCGI->new();
	$io->fetch_user_input( $globals );

	if( $globals->user_query_param( 'debugging' ) eq 'on' ) {
		$globals->is_debug( 1 );
		$globals->url_query_param( 'debugging', 'on' );
	}

	$globals->default_application_title( 'Demo Web Site' );
	$globals->default_maintainer_name( 'Tony Simons' );
	$globals->default_maintainer_email_address( 'tony@aardvark.net' );
	$globals->default_maintainer_email_screen_url_path( '/mailme' );

	my $content = $globals->make_new_context();
	$content->current_user_path_level( 1 );
	$content->navigate_file_path( 'content' );
	$content->set_prefs( 'content_prefs.pl' );
	$content->call_component( 'CGI::Portable::AppSplitScreen' );
	$globals->take_context_output( $content );

	my $usage = $globals->make_new_context();
	$usage->http_redirect_url( $globals->http_redirect_url() );
	$usage->navigate_file_path( $globals->is_debug() ? 'usage_debug' : 'usage' );
	$usage->set_prefs( '../usage_prefs.pl' );
	$usage->call_component( 'DemoUsage' );
	$globals->take_context_output( $usage, 1 );

	if( $globals->is_debug() ) {
		$globals->append_page_body( <<__endquote );
<p>Debugging is currently turned on.</p>
__endquote
	}

	$globals->search_and_replace_url_path_tokens( '__url_path__' );

	$io->send_user_output( $globals );

	1;

Please see the included demo called "website" for this file.

	my $rh_preferences = { 
		email_logs => 1,  # do we want to be sent daily reports?
		fn_dcm => 'date_counts_mailed.txt',  # our lock file to track mailings
		mailing => [  # keep different types of reports in own emails
			{
				filenames => 'env.txt',
				subject_unique => ' -- usage (env) to ',
			}, {
				filenames => 'site_vrp.txt',
				subject_unique => ' -- usage (page views) to ',
			}, {
				filenames => 'redirect_urls.txt',
				subject_unique => ' -- usage (external) to ',
			}, {
				filenames => [qw(
					ref_urls.txt ref_se_urls.txt 
					ref_se_keywords.txt ref_discards.txt
				)],
				subject_unique => ' -- usage (references) to ',
				erase_files => 1,  # start over listing each day
			},
		],
		env => {  # what misc info do we want to know (low value distrib)
			filename => 'env.txt',
			var_list => [qw(
				DOCUMENT_ROOT GATEWAY_INTERFACE HTTP_CONNECTION HTTP_HOST
				REQUEST_METHOD SCRIPT_FILENAME SCRIPT_NAME SERVER_ADMIN 
				SERVER_NAME SERVER_PORT SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_SOFTWARE
			)],
		},
		site => {  # which pages on our own site are viewed?
			filename => 'site_vrp.txt',
		},
		redirect => {  # which of our external links are followed?
			filename => 'redirect_urls.txt',
		},
		referrer => {  # what sites are referring to us?
			filename => 'ref_urls.txt',   # normal websites go here
			fn_search => 'ref_se_urls.txt',  # search engines go here
			fn_keywords => 'ref_se_keywords.txt',  # their keywords go here
			fn_discards => 'ref_discards.txt',  # uris we filter out
			discards => [qw(  # filter uri's we want to ignore
				^(?!http://)
				deja
				mail
			)],
			search_engines => {  # match domain with query param holding keywords
				alltheweb => 'query', # AllTheWeb
				altavista => 'q',     # Altavista
				'aj.com' => 'ask',    # Ask Jeeves
				aol => 'query',       # America Online
				'ask.com' => 'ask',   # Ask Jeeves
				askjeeves => 'ask',   # Ask Jeeves
				'c4.com' => 'searchtext', # C4
				'cs.com' => 'sterm',  # CompuServe
				dmoz => 'search',     # Mozilla Open Directory
				dogpile => 'q',       # DogPile
				excite => 's',        # Excite
				google => 'q',        # Google
				'goto.com' => 'keywords', # GoTo.com, Inc
				'icq.com' => 'query', # ICQ
				infogrid => 'search', # InfoGrid
				intelliseek => 'queryterm', # "Infrastructure For Intelligent Portals"
				iwon => 'searchfor',  # I Won
				looksmart => 'key',   # LookSmart
				lycos => 'query',     # Lycos
				mamma => 'query',     # "Mother of Search Engines"
				metacrawler => 'general', # MetaCrawler
				msn => ['q','mt'],    # Microsoft
				nbci => 'keyword',    # NBCi
				netscape => 'search', # Netscape
				ninemsn => 'q',       # nine msn
				northernlight => 'qr', # Northern Light Search
				'search.com' => 'q',  # CNET
				'searchalot' => 'search', # SearchALot
				snap => 'keyword',    # Microsoft
				webcrawler => 'search', # Webcrawler
				yahoo => 'p',         # Yahoo
			},
		},
	};

This Perl 5 object class is part of a demonstration of CGI::Portable in use. It is one of a set of "application components" that takes its settings and user input through CGI::Portable and uses that class to send its user output. This demo module set can be used together to implement a web site complete with static html pages, e-mail forms, guest books, segmented text document display, usage tracking, and url-forwarding. Of course, true to the intent of CGI::Portable, each of the modules in this demo set can be used independantly of the others.

This class does not export any functions or methods, so you need to call them using object notation. This means using Class->function() for functions and $object->method() for methods. If you are inheriting this class for your own modules, then that often means something like $self->method().

You invoke this method to run the application component that is encapsulated by this class. The required argument GLOBALS is an CGI::Portable object that you have previously configured to hold the instance settings and user input for this class. When this method returns then the encapsulated application will have finished and you can get its user output from the CGI::Portable object.

This POD is coming when I get the time to write it.

Copyright (c) 1999-2004, Darren R. Duncan. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. However, I do request that this copyright information and credits remain attached to the file. If you modify this module and redistribute a changed version then please attach a note listing the modifications. This module is available "as-is" and the author can not be held accountable for any problems resulting from its use.

I am always interested in knowing how my work helps others, so if you put this module to use in any of your own products or services then I would appreciate (but not require) it if you send me the website url for said product or service, so I know who you are. Also, if you make non-proprietary changes to the module because it doesn't work the way you need, and you are willing to make these freely available, then please send me a copy so that I can roll desirable changes into the main release.

Address comments, suggestions, and bug reports to perl@DarrenDuncan.net.

perl(1), CGI::Portable, Net::SMTP, Fcntl, Symbol, CGI::Portable::AdapterCGI.