NYCO Stat Collector for WordPress

A developer plugin for WordPress that adds hooks to enable the logging of data from the site to a specified MySQL database.

Installation using Composer

$1 This package uses Composer Installers to install the package in the Must Use plugins directory (/wp-content/mu-plugins):

composer require nyco/wp-stat-collector

Not using Composer? Download an archive of the code and drop it into the mu-plugins directory.

$2 Create a proxy PHP loader file inside the mu-plugins directory, or use the one included with the plugin:

mv wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-stat-collector/autoloader-sample.php wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-stat-collector.php

Initialization

The sample autoloader contains the basic code required to initialize the plugin. It will...

• Add the statc_register with a sample to get started with creating a trigger to write information to your database.
• Add the statc_bootstrap with a sample query to create tables in your database for the data to be stored in.
• Require all files containing classes.
• Initialize the StatCollector\StatCollector.
• Create an admin settings page under Settings > Stat Collector for configuration.

Configuration

• Host (including port)
• Name
• Username
• Password
• Send Notifications - Wether or not to email the administrator if there is a connection error.

Notices

• Tables Created - A notice that database tables have been created using the statc_bootstrap hook.
• Certificate Authority - A notice that a certificate authority has been found.
• Connection - A notice that a connection can be made using the credetials above.

SSL

Stat Collector uses the Amazon Web Services RDS certificate bundle for making MySQL connections over SSL.

Actions

statc_register

Hook for internal actions that collect information to write to the DB.

...args

• Class StatCollector - An instance of StatCollector.

Example

add_action('statc_register', function($statc) {
  add_action('my_action', function($data) use ($statc) {
    if (gettype($data) === 'string') {
      $statc->collect('my_table', [
        'my_data' => $data,
      ]);
    }
  }, $statc->settings->priority, 2);

  return true;
});

statc_init

Hook for plugin post-instantiation.

...args

• Class StatCollector - An instance of StatCollector.

statc_bootstrap

Hook for bootstrapping the database.

...args

• Class wpdb - An instance of wpdb with a connection to your database.

Example

add_action('statc_bootstrap', function($db) {
  $db->query(
    'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS my_table (
      id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
      my_data TEXT DEFAULT NULL,
      PRIMARY KEY(id)
    ) ENGINE=InnoDB'
  );

  return true;
});

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