StatHat Class

stathat.php

<?php
// An simplified version of StatHat's own PHP code, wrapped in a class, with a lower timeout threshold.
class StatHat {
    private static function ez_key() {
    	return "Your_StatHat_Key_Here"
        //return $_SERVER['STATHAT_KEY'];
    }

    // StatHat's original code is very much _not_ asynchronous.
    // In the event of DNS issues, this will lock your app for TIMEOUT seconds.
    // It is set to 2 seconds, if you have frequent problems with timeouts, up the timeout, or fix your DNS :)
    private static function do_async_post_request($url, $params)
    {
        foreach ($params as $key => &$val) {
            if (is_array($val)) $val = implode(',', $val);
            $post_params[] = $key.'='.urlencode($val);
        }
        $post_string = implode('&', $post_params);

        $parts=parse_url($url);

	// Lower threshold prevents lockup in the event of DNS issues.
        $fp = fsockopen($parts['host'],
            isset($parts['port'])?$parts['port']:80,
            $errno, $errstr, 2);

        $out = "POST ".$parts['path']." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
        $out.= "Host: ".$parts['host']."\r\n";
        $out.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
        $out.= "Content-Length: ".strlen($post_string)."\r\n";
        $out.= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
        if (isset($post_string)) $out.= $post_string;

        fwrite($fp, $out);
        fclose($fp);
    }

    public static function ez_count($stat_name, $count)
    {
        self::do_async_post_request("http://api.stathat.com/ez", array('email' => self::ez_key(), 'stat' => $stat_name, 'count' => $count));
    }

    public static function ez_value($stat_name, $value)
    {
        self::do_async_post_request("http://api.stathat.com/ez", array('email' => self::ez_key(), 'stat' => $stat_name, 'value' => $value));
    }
}
?>