AnyData::Format::Weblog (3pm)

 use AnyData;
 my $weblog = adTie( 'Weblog', $filename );
 while (my $hit = each %$weblog) {
    print $hit->{remotehost},"\n" if $hit->{request} =~ /mypage.html/;
 }
 # ... other tied hash operations

 OR

 use DBI
 my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
 $dbh->func('hits','Weblog','access_log','ad_catalog');
 my $hits = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
     SELECT remotehost FROM hits WHERE request LIKE '%mypage.html%'
 });
 # ... other DBI/SQL read operations

This is a plug-in format parser for the AnyData and DBD::AnyData modules. You can gain read access to Common Log Format files web server log files (e.g. \s-1NCSA\s0 or Apache) either through tied hashes or arrays or through \s-1SQL\s0 database queries.

Fieldnames are taken from the W3 definitions found at

http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Config/Logging.html#common-logfile-format

remotehost usernname authuser date request status bytes

In addition, two extra fields that may be present in extended format logfiles are:

referer client

This module does not currently support writing to weblog files.

Please refer to the documentation for AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm for further details.

copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <[email protected]> all rights reserved