counter.php counts yahoo search engine as netscape

Regular Joined: Mar 14, 2005 Posts: 91

I noticed that counter.php is counting yahoo's spider as a user with a netscape browser. The reason is, is it sees mozilla in the user agent and counts it as netscape and moves on without checking if it is a spider.

Here is the fix...
Open includes/counter.php

Find...

Code:




/* Get the Browser data */





if((ereg("Nav", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("Gold", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("X11", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("Mozilla", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("Netscape", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) AND (!ereg("MSIE", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) AND (!ereg("Konqueror", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) $browser = "Netscape";

Change to...

Code:




/* Get the Browser data */





if((ereg("Nav", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("Gold", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("X11", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("Mozilla", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) || (ereg("Netscape", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) AND (!ereg("MSIE", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) AND (!ereg("Konqueror", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) AND (!eregi("Yahoo", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])))) $browser = "Netscape";

I added AND (!eregi("Yahoo", $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]))

This will keep the yahoo spider from being counted as netscape and start being counted as a search engine

Original Post

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:37 pm

So what do you think the chances of FB fixing this for the next version of nuke are?

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:13 pm

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:28 pm

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:32 pm

Send chatserv a PM and reference this post and ask him to include it in his next fixpack.

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:43 am

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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:19 pm

nice