How to change AXS tracking software to show Firefox

Submitted by Patrick Grote on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 5:38am.

AXS tracking software is a great package to use for tracking the visitors that come to your site. It installs simply, is open source and has very many uses.

The program will install itself onto your site and learning to use it is simple. Here is a screenshot of some of the results:

Notice that I highlighted the Firefox 2.0 entry. AXS doesn't ship with Firefox 2.0 support, which is due to the fact it hasn't been updated since 2004. Yes, that's right, AXS hasn't been updated since 2004.

Still, it's a great product and with just a little work you can add support for Firefox 2.0.

I came across this post on the support forums , so I thought I'd add it here:

Open ax-admin.pl and go to the subroutine "get_browser_name". at line 2882, insert the following before "else { return 'Netscape'; }":

elsif (m!firefox!o) { return 'Mozilla Firefox'; }

Next, go to the "get_browser_ver" subroutine. at line 2933, insert the following before "elsif (m!mozilla/(\d).(\d)!o) {":

elsif (m!firefox.?(\d).(\d)!o) { return "Mozilla Firefox v$1.$2"; }

Simple as that. When you make the changes make sure you FTP the changed file back to your server.