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28. April 2012

CrazyStat 1.71 RC1 released

Filed under: CrazyStat,PHP — Tags: , , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 20:31

Today I released CrazyStat 1.71 RC1, the first Release Candidate of version 1.71. As there have already been two beta-versions tested by some testers, I consider this release candidate quite stable. I expect that no or only small changes will be made for the final version. Therefore, I’d like to encourage all CrazyStat users to update CrazyStat to 1.71 RC1. It is very simple, as described in the FAQ.

So what are the major changes?

  • New languages: Russian and Danish. Thanks a lot to the translators Vladimir and Liza! I hope CrazyStat will be translated into more languages soon. It is really not much work. Please contact me if you are interested.
  • PHP4 support dropped. I removed all workarounds for old PHP versions. Now at least PHP 5.1 is required. If your host is still running PHP4, you should really update or change to another hoster. PHP4 is not maintained for quite a while now. Also support for old GDlib-versions was dropped (1.x).
  • You can now link the entries of the file-module to the files. See the config setting you need to set.
  • IP anonymization reworked. This is now turned on by default. See FAQ for more information.
  • Average and total visiting time in hits-module
  • New logo by kartoffelpfluecker (thanks!)
  • Improved UTF8-support
  • New Browsers (Firefox-Versions), Bots, Operating Systems etc.
  • Lots of (smaller) fixes, i.e. producing PHP notice errors or invalid (X)HTML
  • Fix of a bug that caused weird ordering of the days-module sometimes
  • Fix of a bug that made Chrome transfer passwords unencrypted and corrupt the password file when changing passwords using Chrome

So this is more a maintenance release, not a major whole new version. See history for more details (with CrazyStat’s new public SVN hosted on Sourceforge, you can even track every individual change).

I hope you enjoy the new version. You can download it here.

Tell me what you think about it in the comments. In case you have problems, please ask in the support forum.

Enjoy using CrazyStat!
Christopher

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26. April 2012

How to include CrazyStat in WordPress

Filed under: CrazyStat,PHP,Wordpress — Tags: , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 00:52

Of course it is possible to include CrazyStat in wordpress. I will describe here how it can be done. This approach assumes you have your own wordpress installation and can edit templates. It might not work this way if your blog is hosted on wordpress.com or similar. But I guess using CrazyStat in these cases would still be possible. Contact me if you need to know how and I will have a closer look.

So I assume you have a running wordpress installation and installed CrazyStat like described in the readme (at least steps 1-6 of quick install instructions). I assume you have a backup of your wordpress installation (at least the themes folder).

So the question is where to put the include code:

<?php @include_once("stat/src/include.php"); ?>

Log into the wordpress admin panel and click appearance/editor (German: Design/Editor). Make sure you selected the correct theme in the dropdown menu on the top right.

In case you do not want to use a counter

Click on “footer.php” on the right. You will see some HTML / PHP code in the editor. Put your cursor just before </body> (which should be quite at the end).  This is the best place to insert the CrazyStat code:

<?php @include_once("stat/src/include.php"); ?>

The path is seen from the wordpress root-directory. This code assumes you installed CrazyStat in the wordpress root-directory under “stat”. In case you installed it one level higher, you would need to use:

<?php @include_once("../stat/src/include.php"); ?>

Save your changes.

You might also need to adjust $config_rel_path. See config-documentation for details.

In case you want to use a counter

In this case, you’d need to find the place in your template where you want to place the counter. This should normally be somewhere after <body> in header.php, before </body> in footer.php or in sidebar.php. Unfortunately you need some HTML experience to find the correct place here. Use the same code as above.

In case you have problems

Please ask in the CrazyStat support forum in case you have problems or questions (no registration required at the moment!).

I hope I could clarify this for some people. Maybe I will do a wordpress plugin sometime. If you think this would be a great idea, tell me in the comments.

Alternative option: Use the WordPress plugin mzz-include-CrazyStat (Update 2017-02-17)

The problems with the solution described above are:

  • Whenever the theme is updated, the change of the footer.php might get lost.
  • If you switch to another theme, you need to add the CrazyStat code again.

To solve these problems, CrazyStat user Morgan Jassen developed a small helper plugin that just inserts the include code:

Find it here: https://github.com/mjassen/mzz-include-crazystat

I just found this today and have not tried it yet, but think it is the better option. Thanks, Morgan!

17. April 2012

CrazyStat 1.70 detects Firefox 11 as 1.x (fix)

Filed under: CrazyStat,PHP — Tags: , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 00:25

Hey,

CrazyStat version 1.70 (and before) detects Firefox version 11 (and upwards) as “Firefox 1.x”.

Firefox versions were really coming up fast lately, so I did not finish version 1.71 to get all those new versions added before they come out.

To fix this issue in 1.70 (or before), simply add “Firefox/11=Firefox 11” to stat/usr/keywords/browser.txt or even better download the current browser.txt from SVN. Just replace the file and clean the cache.

Note that you can easily customize browser detection as described in FAQ.

Of course this won’t be an issue in upcoming 1.71.

Greetings,
Christopher