Analyze your data
If you have been running a website for some time, you probably have a lot of data waiting to be analyzed. I’m not talking about server logs - you should already have a tool to follow these. But the data from your users, recorded in the database, this is very valuable data that you can learn from.
If you included a created_at or an updated_at column in your tables, then you’re almost done. All you have to do to analyze the data is to query your database. Then you can see how many forum messages were posted day by day since the last month. Or the progression of your demo application usage. The ideal would be to display the data in a nice line chart, and to provide navigation and filtering controls to easily browse your statistics.
You have the data, all you need is a tool to visualize it. This tool is now available as a symfony plugin. I have the pleasure to release today a plugin called sfStatsPlugin, which does exactly that. Based on a simple YAML configuration file, the plugin will take advantage of the methods from your Propel Object Model to display a nice line chart from Google Chart API or a jQuery flot. It is fully i18ned, compatible with symfony 1.0 and 1.1, and released under the MIT License, thanks to my company’s sponsoring.
If you have some data waiting to be analyzed, download the plugin and try it right away. In minutes, you will understand how your site usage is evolving, with all the precision allowed by your object model structure.
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good work! =D
Looks like a nice plugin, especially for those social community websites who keeps track of a lot of it’s users activities
Really cool work as usual :), thank you
It makes thing easier