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We had some recent questions about using Zoom and Analog to generate an internal search query report based on web server logfiles. (i.e. create a list of words people were searching for on your site).
Analog is the well known free website log file analyzer, many hosting companies have it installed as part of the hosting package. While Analog is highly functional it can be tricky to configure for novice users, as it relies on text files to set its configuration options.
Zoom Search has an internal logging and report generation function that actually does more than Analog. See,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/logging.html
and
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/screen7.html
So you don't really need Analog.
But if you prefer to use Analog to generate a search word report using Zoom, you can do so by editing your Analog configuration file and adding these two lines,
INTSEARCHQUERY ON
INTSEARCHENGINE /search.php zoom_query
It generates a nice little pie chart and a table. This was tested on Analog V5.3.
Note that if you are using the ASP script or CGI then you need to instead use,
INTSEARCHENGINE /search.asp zoom_query
or
INTSEARCHENGINE /search.cgi zoom_query
If Zoom is installed in a sub folder on your site, then you need to use,
INTSEARCHENGINE /foldername/search.cgi zoom_query
Here is what people were searching for on our site in the last few days.
Analog is the well known free website log file analyzer, many hosting companies have it installed as part of the hosting package. While Analog is highly functional it can be tricky to configure for novice users, as it relies on text files to set its configuration options.
Zoom Search has an internal logging and report generation function that actually does more than Analog. See,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/logging.html
and
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/screen7.html
So you don't really need Analog.
But if you prefer to use Analog to generate a search word report using Zoom, you can do so by editing your Analog configuration file and adding these two lines,
INTSEARCHQUERY ON
INTSEARCHENGINE /search.php zoom_query
It generates a nice little pie chart and a table. This was tested on Analog V5.3.
Note that if you are using the ASP script or CGI then you need to instead use,
INTSEARCHENGINE /search.asp zoom_query
or
INTSEARCHENGINE /search.cgi zoom_query
If Zoom is installed in a sub folder on your site, then you need to use,
INTSEARCHENGINE /foldername/search.cgi zoom_query
Here is what people were searching for on our site in the last few days.