[FX.php List] Web activity logging in FMP?

[Joel Shapiro]

Great, thanks Steve!
(And Good Morning ;)

-Joel


On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Steve Winter wrote:

> Hey Joel,
>
> Not that I've noticed, but then I've tended to do this with new  
> systems, so I don't know if they might be faster without the  
> logging, but I've certainly not seen any issues with performance  
> which would make me try and turn it off...
>
> With value lists, I tend to load them all into a session variable as  
> part of a user login process so that they are available anywhere/ 
> everywhere, so it's a single call, to a single layout to load them...
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>
> On 14 Jul 2010, at 05:41, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jonathan, & Thanks for this Steve!
>>
>> So I take it you don't find a problematic peformance hit with all  
>> these extra calls to FM? (incl. for actions like just loading  
>> valueLists(!))
>>
>> Best,
>> -Joel
>>
>>
>> On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Steve Winter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Joel,
>>>
>>> As usual, depends on client... when it's over to me I tend to log  
>>> pretty much all transactions, particularly when implementing my  
>>> 'microSave' approach which uses Ajax to deliver an FM-like web  
>>> application experience (come to my DevCon workshop to find out  
>>> more ;-)
>>>
>>> I generally add a pretty simple table which has action, result and  
>>> ipAddress fields, then a 'key field' which can be used to map  
>>> these logs records back to a unique user in the system. I then  
>>> have a 'helper' function which does the logging... in the example  
>>> below for one client, the unique ID field in their db is  
>>> _kf_RecruitID, so here's the function;
>>>
>>> /**
>>>  * Log function to save actions back to the FMP log table
>>>  */
>>>  function logAction($log) {
>>>  	$fm = dbConnect();
>>> 	$cmd = $fm->newAddCommand('Log');
>>> 	$cmd->setField('action', $log['action']);
>>> 	$cmd->setField('result', $log['result']);
>>> 	$cmd->setField('ipAddress', $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
>>> 	if(isset($log['uniqueID'])) {
>>> 		$cmd->setField('_kf_RecruitID', $log['uniqueID']);
>>> 	}
>>> 	$result = $cmd->execute();
>>>  }
>>>
>>> You'll see that I'm testing for uniqueID, because some actions  
>>> which need logging might not be attributable to a specific user,  
>>> for example an invalid login attempt...
>>>
>>> Then in all my other functions which interact with the db, I have  
>>> code something like;
>>> 	logAction(array('action' => 'valueListsLoaded', 'result' =>  
>>> 'Success'));
>>> so in this case the function called was loading value lists, and  
>>> it was successful...
>>>
>>> This is the log entry from my 'microSave' function;
>>> 	logAction(array('action' => 'microSave: '.$field, 'result' =>  
>>> 'Success, saved value: '.$value, 'uniqueID' => $_SESSION['logID']));
>>> so in this case the action ends up with something like 'microSave:  
>>> First name' and result 'Success, saved value: Fred'. This can then  
>>> be linked back to the correct record in the db through the  
>>> uniqueID field, which in this implementation, is currently living  
>>> in a session variable (and before anyone comments, I know that  
>>> value exists before I get to this point in the code, because if it  
>>> didn't exist, and error would have been thrown further up the  
>>> function ;-)
>>>
>>> In these examples I'm defining the array directly within the  
>>> function call. In other places I do something like;
>>> 	$outcome = array('action' => 'doLogin');
>>> then later on I can have logic like
>>> 	if(error = 401)
>>> 		$log['result'] = 'User not found';
>>> 	else
>>> 		$log['result'] = $result->getMessage();
>>>
>>> As always YMMV but hope this helps :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On 13 Jul 2010, at 04:23, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> Just curious - How much logging of web activity do people here  
>>>> tend to do in FM (or MySQL...)?  All login attempts?  Just  
>>>> successful logins?  More?
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> -Joel
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