laravel-analytics maintained by arcticfalcon
comments powered by Disqus
Analytics tracking package for Laravel 4.x
Installation
Add to your composer.json following lines
"require": {
"arcticfalcon/laravel-analytics": "~1.0"
}
Run php artisan config:publish arcticfalcon/laravel-analytics
Then edit analytics.php in app/config/packages/arcticfalcon/laravel-analytics to your needs.
Add 'ArcticFalcon\LaravelAnalytics\AnalyticsServiceProvider', to providers in app/config/app.php.
Add 'Analytics' => 'ArcticFalcon\LaravelAnalytics\AnalyticsFacade', to aliases in app/config/app.php.
Configuration
provider - Provider to use, possible Providers are: GoogleAnalytics, NoAnalytics
Google Analytics
tracking_id - Tracking ID
tracking_domain - Tracking domain, unset or set to "auto" for automatic fallback
anonymize_ip - (true|false) anonymize users ip
auto_track - (true|false) auto tracking current pageview
Usage
In controller action (or anywhere else) use following statement to track an event or page view:
// tracking the current page view
Analytics::trackPage(); // only necessary if `auto_track` is false or Analytics::disableAutoTracking() was called before
// tracking an event
Analytics::trackEvent('category', 'action');
// tracking a custom line
Analytics::trackCustom("ga('send', ......"); // this line will be added within the tracking script
In your view or layout template (e.g. a blade template) use the following statement:
{{ Analytics::render() }}
For Google Analytics you should place the statement right behind the body tag
<body>{{ Analytics::render() }}
How to use
The GoogleAnalytics Provider automatically controls the local environment behaviour for testing purposes.
See https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/advanced#localhost for details.
There is a builtin provider called NoAnalytics. This is for testing environments and tracks nothing. So you do
not have to rewrite your code, simple select this provider in analytics configuration for your special environment
configurations.
Track a measurement without having javascript
-
Log in to Google Analytics and create custom definition. There you create a custom metrics. For example: Email opens, Integer type, min: 0 and max: 1 This will be available as
metric1. -
Within your mail template (or page template) you have to create a tracking image
<img src="{{ Analytics::trackMeasurementUrl('metric1', '1', new Event, new Campaign, md5($user)) }}" width="1" height="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0 none;" /> -
That's it
API Documentation
For the correct usage methods look at the ArcticFalcon\LaravelAnalytics\Contracts\AnalyticsProviderInterface.php
Analytics::render()
For rendering the correct javascript code.
/**
* returns the javascript code for embedding the analytics stuff
*
* @return string
*/
public function render();
Analytics::trackPage()
For tracking a page view.
/**
* track an page view
*
* @param null|string $page
* @param null|string $title
* @param null|string $hittype
* @return void
*/
public function trackPage($page, $title, $hittype);
Analytics::trackEvent()
For tracking an event
/**
* track an event
*
* @param string $category
* @param string $action
* @param null|string $label
* @param null|int $value
* @return void
*/
public function trackEvent($category, $action, $label, $value);
Analytics::trackCustom()
For tracking a custom script line within the embedded analytics code.
/**
* track any custom code
*
* @param string $customCode
* @return void
*/
public function trackCustom($customCode);
Analytics::enableAutoTracking()
Enabling the auto tracking, overriding the configuration setting auto_track.
/**
* enable auto tracking
*
* @return void
*/
public function enableAutoTracking();
Analytics::disableAutoTracking()
Disabling the auto tracking, overriding the configuration setting auto_track.
/**
* disable auto tracking
*
* @return void
*/
public function disableAutoTracking();
Analytics::trackMeasurementUrl()
Sometimes you have to track measurements, e.g. opening an email newsletter. There you have no javascript at all.
/**
* assembles an url for tracking measurement without javascript
*
* e.g. for tracking email open events within a newsletter
*
* @param string $metricName
* @param mixed $metricValue
* @param \ArcticFalcon\LaravelAnalytics\Data\Event $event
* @param \ArcticFalcon\LaravelAnalytics\Data\Campaign $campaign
* @param string|null $clientId
* @param array $params
* @return string
*/
public function trackMeasurementUrl($metricName, $metricValue, Event $event, Campaign $campaign, $clientId = null, array $params = array());