Generating Statistics (Page Views, Unique Visitors) using PHP?

Question

I'm using the following code in the header of every page to try and gather records that I can use to produce website statistics, page views, unique users etc. The code runs without any errors but isn't inserting anything in to the database:

<?php 
include 'connect.php';

$browserType  =  $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$ipAddress  =  $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$month = "date('F')";
$year = "date('Y')";

$sqlPageViews  =  "INSERT INTO JB_Statistics ( browser, ip, month, year, recDate) VALUES ( '$browserType' , '$ipAddress' , '$month', '$year', CURDATE() );";
mysql_query($sqlPageViews);
mysql_close();

?>

Is there something missing here or is there a better way of acheiving this?

Answer 1

Well you do not need the

`month` and `year`

in you table because the date stores all of that.

PS try putting this at the end of your page so it stores it last, better for the visitor