Comments on: Your Own Personal MySpace Tracker

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:39:11 +0000

I asked because I had noticed mine changing frequently lately (at least once every week or two) and someone who likes to stalk me on myspace went unnoticed for weeks because their ip address changed a couple of times and I hardly ever check my trackspace account anymore.
I’m a total beginner at php and the like, but maybe I can pick up enough to implement something like that for myself. *heads off to start researching*

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:53:34 +0000

The IP address is unlikely to change between requests coming from the same user. It might change if the person is using DSL or if they are still unfortunate enough to be on dialup. The other consideration would be how often a user clears their browser cache vs how often their IP changes. It seems that this wouldn’t make much of a difference in the long run. I won’t be implementing this anytime soon but I may sometime in the future.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:03:49 +0000

How difficult would it be to change this tracker to where it would set a cookie to identify a return visitor, in case their ip address changes? I think that would be an awesome feature to add. trackspace.net uses this method and gets really good results; many hits are connected to the same person that I would’ve thought were different people otherwise.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:52:40 +0000

Not at home; I tried clearing my cookies for your site, however. At work, my cache and entire browsing history gets cleared every day for privacy.

I discovered I still get the error message on page two of my original tracker – but only on page two. The other pages display just fine. This is all very strange…

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:40:05 +0000

I haven’t changed anything so I’m not sure what could have been causing it. At some point did you clear your browser cache?

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:00:27 +0000

The old one suddenly started working again, yay!

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:54:04 +0000

I made a new account with you, and it works, so far; I’ve successfully signed up and logged in. The old account (which I would really love to get back into) is still kicking up that error message.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:40:11 +0000

Nope, same message. I’ve tried at home and at work, thinking that something could’ve possibly been messed up on one of the computers. Any ideas?

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:12:55 +0000

Well it could be but I’ve tried both IE and Firefox and I can’t get it to break.

http://mst.hackdd.net/tracker
http://mst.hackdd.net/index.php/tracker

After you login try going to those pages and let me know if it works.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:32:20 +0000

I downloaded the code for your tracker and set it up on a free hosting site. After many hours of learning, I finally got it set up – and it’s giving me the exact same message yours is. It must be in the code somewhere, somehow, right?