Question

I have made some statistics which I want to insert into database to see traffic stats.
I mostly have HTML pages so I used POST method to get statistics posted by a PHP file, but it is not working no stats are inserted into database table.

HTML Codes

    <form action="_global/stats/stats.php" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="stats" value="true" />
    </form>

PHP Codes

        if (isset($_POST['stats']))
    {
    $stats = $_POST['stats'];
    }
    else
    {$stats="false";}

    if ($stats == "true"){ 

        if(!empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){
        $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
        }else{$url = "";}

        if(!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])){
        $user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
        }else{$user_ip = "";}

        if(!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'])){
        $user_port = $_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'];
        }else{$user_port = "";}

        if(!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])){
        $server_ip = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
        }else{$server_ip = "";}

        if(!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'])){
        $server_port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
        }else{$server_port = "";}

        if(!empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])){
        $request_type = mysql_real_escape_string ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
        }else{$request_type = "";}

        if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){
        $browser_type =  mysql_real_escape_string ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
        }else{$browser_type = "";} 

    mysql_query("INSERT INTO jinendra_statistics.statistics SET url='$url', user_ip='$user_ip', user_port='$user_port', server_ip='$server_ip', server_port='$server_port', request_type='$request_type', browser_type='$browser_type' ");

    }

Please See what’s going wrong here and suggest any possible way to do it.

Update

PHP file with these codes is working i get values in database. but using it with HTML doesn’t insert values in database.

        if(!empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){
    $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    }else{$url = "";}

    if(!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])){
    $user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    }else{$user_ip = "";}

    if(!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'])){
    $user_port = $_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'];
    }else{$user_port = "";}

    if(!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])){
    $server_ip = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
    }else{$server_ip = "";}

    if(!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'])){
    $server_port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
    }else{$server_port = "";}

    if(!empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])){
    $request_type = mysql_real_escape_string ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
    }else{$request_type = "";}

    if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){
    $browser_type =  mysql_real_escape_string ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
    }else{$browser_type = "";} 

    mysql_query("INSERT INTO jinendra_statistics.statistics SET url='$url', user_ip='$user_ip', user_port='$user_port', server_ip='$server_ip', server_port='$server_port', request_type='$request_type', browser_type='$browser_type' ");

Answer 1

To anyone reading this: There were two issues that were fixed.

1) The query had incorrect syntax, and

2) The process of submitting the form was also incorrect.

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mysql_query("INSERT INTO jinendra_statistics.statistics (url, user_ip, user_port, server_ip, server_port, request_type, browser_type) VALUES ('$url', '$user_ip', '$user_port', '$server_ip', '$server_port', '$request_type', '$browser_type')";

You want to use SET for UPDATE and the syntax I provided for INSERT.

---

this/page.php

<?php

if(isset($_POST['stats'])){

 if(!empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}else{$url = "";}

if(!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])){
$user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}else{$user_ip = "";}

if(!empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'])){
$user_port = $_SERVER['REMOTE_PORT'];
}else{$user_port = "";}

if(!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'])){
$server_ip = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
}else{$server_ip = "";}

if(!empty($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'])){
$server_port = $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
}else{$server_port = "";}

if(!empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])){
$request_type = mysql_real_escape_string ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
}else{$request_type = "";}

if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){
$browser_type =  mysql_real_escape_string ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
}else{$browser_type = "";} 

mysql_query("INSERT INTO jinendra_statistics.statistics SET url='$url', user_ip='$user_ip', user_port='$user_port', server_ip='$server_ip', server_port='$server_port', request_type='$request_type', browser_type='$browser_type' ");

if(mysql_affected_rows()){
    // it worked, redirect, confirm, etc
}
else{
    // it failed
}

}

?>


<form action="this/page.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="stats" value="true" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit Stats" />
</form>

Try this out. Enter the name of the file you save this as in the action.