Counterfriends,

After a few weeks of running this plugin, I noticed that my database got cluttered with tens of thousands of bot- and spiderhits, in spite of the botdetection present in the previous versions. Sometimes as many as 5000 a day! So I decided to do things differently:

Bot hits (or non-human hits) are no longer registered as hits, but only aggregated on a per-rule basis.

The list with strings that identify useragents used by bots, crawlers and spiders is no longer hardcoded, but can be edited as rules in the admin panel and saved in te database. Per rule, the number of blocked hits is visible, so you can see how effective certain rules are. The plugin comes with a prefilled database of bots and spiders that have been bothering me the most in the past few weeks, and can be easily modified and extended.

Besides that, DBUCounter is now using the excellent browscap class and php_browscap.ini from http://garetjax.info/projects/browscap/ for better browser and os detection.

DBUCounter has been running pretty smoothly on my site, and the statistics are fairly clean, so I guess it's time to release this to the community.

A quick update:

NP_DBUCounter 0.94 [09-03-2008]

Get your copy >>>here<<< 

Upgrade instructions are available in the 'dbucounter' folder.

A last note: If you run into any permissions problem, chmod the folder 'Browscap/cache' to 777. 

As always,

enjoy!

omeslo 

edit: Patched to 0.94a