NAME

AnyData::Format::Weblog - tiedhash & DBI/SQL access to HTTPD Logs

SYNOPSIS

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 operations

DESCRIPTION

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

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

AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT

copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> all rights reserved