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Mapping website visitors in real time using Google Maps
05/09/2006 By Vegard A. Larsen


This tutorial talks about mapping website visitors in real time using Google Maps API. You can geographically locate the visitors to the website, and tag their locations on a map, using Google Maps, Ajax, MySQL and PHP.

Check out the Real Time Demo here.

"A while ago I had an idea. What if I were to try to geographically locate all the visitors to my website, and tag their locations on a map? Using Google Maps, Ajax, MySQL and some PHP, it came together quite nicely."


Download the code:

The map: index.html. Displays the map, and contains the JavaScript functions.

Creating XML files: get_xml.php. Produces XML code with markers for the map.

Parsing the log: parse_log.php. Parses Apache's log, and puts it into a database. Then it geolocates the IP's found. This file should be run every minute, probably by a cron job.

Configuring: config.php. Contains database connection code.

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