Quick Guide: Implement Google Analytics Using meta.php

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Quick Guide: Implement Google Analytics Using meta.php

[Last updated: 05-28-2015]

Any corrections/modifications welcome.  Hope this might help someone.

Create a Google Analytics [GA] account and add your url to obtain your customized GA tracking code.

Create a file (preferably using Notepad++ or another html editor) and name it“analyticsTracking.php” and paste the GA tracking code into it.  It should look something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("INSERT YOUR ID HERE");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script> <?php
// End Analytics tracking code
?>

Place “analyticsTracking.php” file in the same directory as “meta.php”.

Give “analyticsTracking.php” the following permissions: 644 (i.e. -rw-rw-r--)

Edit “meta.php”, by adding the following line:

<?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?>

Your meta.php should end up looking like this:

<?php
    global $cms;
?>
<?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?>

 

 

 

[Arnaud 0]

This is a great article. Thanks.

Just mind that there is one small "error" in it, for users  running the TNG software on a server with a case-sensitive operating-system (= probably the majority of users):

The suggested filename for the script has an upper-case T in the name "analyticsTracking.php", whereas the call in the meta.php file does  only have lower-case characters. On webservers running linux this is causing a problem, because this OS is case-sensitive. So, either change the filename to analyticstracking.php, or use an upper-case T in the call from meta.php.

Regards,
Arnaud

 

[jgrubbs 0]

Just curious, is there a reason why we need to put the Google Analytics code into it's own php file to call as a include in the meta.php vs. just putting the Google Analytics code into the meta.php?