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dw_dev_training2010-05-08 01:26 pm
anarres) wrote in dw_dev_training2010-05-08 01:26 pm
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Questions about the statistics system
Hi all! I'm getting ready to start my GSoC project on Usage and Business Statistics, and I'm just starting to realize how much stuff I don't know! I hope this is the right place to post some questions about the statistics system:
1. How can I use the stats system modules in a perl script? I would like to write a simple script like this as a way of learning about how the stats system works:
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use DW::StatStore;
use DW::StatData;
use DW::StatData::AccountsByType;
my $accounts_by_type = DW::StatData::AccountsByType->load_latest( DW::StatStore->get( "accounts" ) );
# MORE CODE...
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but if I do this within my Dreamhack perl complains that it can't find the modules I asked it to use (even though exactly the same code works fine within /stats/site.bml!) I've tried adding an absolute path to the modules, but it turns out that these depend on a bunch of LJ modules which I can't find.
2. How can I get my Dreamhack to display /admin/stats.bml? (This is only displayed to users with admin priviledges).
3. What are 'crumbs'? I've seen this word in a couple of places, and I've no idea what it is.
4. Just to check, is it the case that if I'm editing a BML page, I should convert it to Template Toolkit?
5. /stats.bml uses the old legacy stats system - is it going to be replaced, or left as it is? If it's going to stay, should I add graphs to it (i.e. display the info on this page in graph form - apart from Age Distribution, which already has a graph)?.
1. How can I use the stats system modules in a perl script? I would like to write a simple script like this as a way of learning about how the stats system works:
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use DW::StatStore;
use DW::StatData;
use DW::StatData::AccountsByType;
my $accounts_by_type = DW::StatData::AccountsByType->load_latest( DW::StatStore->get( "accounts" ) );
# MORE CODE...
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but if I do this within my Dreamhack perl complains that it can't find the modules I asked it to use (even though exactly the same code works fine within /stats/site.bml!) I've tried adding an absolute path to the modules, but it turns out that these depend on a bunch of LJ modules which I can't find.
2. How can I get my Dreamhack to display /admin/stats.bml? (This is only displayed to users with admin priviledges).
3. What are 'crumbs'? I've seen this word in a couple of places, and I've no idea what it is.
4. Just to check, is it the case that if I'm editing a BML page, I should convert it to Template Toolkit?
5. /stats.bml uses the old legacy stats system - is it going to be replaced, or left as it is? If it's going to stay, should I add graphs to it (i.e. display the info on this page in graph form - apart from Age Distribution, which already has a graph)?.
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Re #5: the plan is that eventually, those stats it provides that the new system doesn't provide will get converted and merged in, at which point graphs for them would be nice. But that's low-priority.