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Behavior Pepper (Plugin for Shaun Inman's Mint)

For about a month now Vocal Nation has been using a traffic analysis program by Shaun Inman called Mint. It's really well designed and I definitely recommend to anyone that wants a clean, intuitive way to check out their traffic. But as slick as it is, it is limited in its ability to track events that occur between pageloads. Since Vocal Nation uses some fancy ajax to load individual sections of a page and to open popups, these hits were not being recorded. Fortunately, Mint comes complete with a nicely done pluggin architecture for extending its base functionality.

To solve the problem mentioned above, I created the Behavior Pepper (within mint plugins are called pepper for some reason), which tracks javascript user events (like popups or ajax requests) occurring between pageloads that would otherwise slip through the gaps. After installation, you can specify which user events you'd like to monitor in one of two ways:

1) With Browser-Side Code: This method uses a seperate ajax request, and is triggered by a javascript function call within the client's browser. (Requires knowledge of javascript.)

2) With Server-Side Code: For logging an event from within your application's php code. (Requires knowledge of php.)

To download this pepper, head over to the peppermill at the mint site.
More information is available in the readme file once you download it.

Hope you dig it, and please keep me updated if you make any improvements.