exclude search from statistics log

[cowsaplenty]

How do I exclude the searches that I do myself from showing up in the weekly stats logs report?

[David]

There is no automatic way. If you really wanted to do this, then I would suggest pre-filtering the log using your IP address. Assuming you have a static IP address.

[cowsaplenty]

how do I pre filter it?

[David]

The log is just a text file in CSV format. So there are plenty of options, including
By hand in notepad.
With a search and replace in a more advanced text editor like UltraEdit
In Excel
With the Linux grep command (with the -v option) if you are on a Linux server

Or you could edit the search.php script to filter before writing the log. Or edit the report.php script to filter when reading the file.

[cowsaplenty]

We use cgi, not php on our server.

Can this still be done in cgi?
That is, editing it so it excludes our ip?

[Ray]

The CGI is a compiled executable coded in C++ for performance. We provide the source code as part of the Zoom SDK but it requires a great deal of technical knowledge (and the appropriate compiler, and development environment) to do so.

[David]

Even if you use CGI for search, you could still use the report.php script for looking at the stats.

[cowsaplenty]

actually, I noticed all the searches had the same ip address...shouldn't they be different?

[David]

Generally yes, if different people are doing the search. But it does depend on how you call the CGI. Are you calling it from the web server directly, or via some other application or script? What is the URL for your search function?