[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Spinball

The most useful thing would be to see where the majority of people are coming from. Within the thread with the most views, show the referers by their frequency.

The referrer information is not stored in the session table. It's not that hard to add, it just requires adding a new field to the session table, and trivial code changes to the /includes/session.php file. So, it is doable. But there are a few caveats, that may make it not so desirable. The session data is not cumilative, which means when the visitor clicks on a link (say to see the next page in the thread), the record will be replaced with this activity, and the referrer will be your site/forum, so it will not give you the data you really want, unless you run the script at the righ time. This means if you run the script, a couple minutes later, you may not find the actual referrer.

The best thing to do, IMHO, is that once you identify the time when the spike occured, is to look at the server logs for that time period (you will have the exact time down to the second), and just look at the "referrer" tag in the apache log.

If you still want the referrer though, I can send you to required steps by PM, to avoid having others here do the database updates if they'd rather not have this feature. Or if there's enough demand, I can list the steps here.