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I was approached about this exact problem this week. After too long looking at control panel adjustments and htaccess fiddling I went for the Nuclear option.

Just add this to your config.php

if(isset($_GET['gclid'])) {
  unset($_GET['gclid']);
}

Many thanks for sharing this solution. Would you be able to very briefly explain what it does?

Thanks again,

Andrew

All arguments after a ? character in a URL are available to PHP as variables in an array called $_GET.

This code checks for the presence of one called ‘gclid’ and removes it if found. Because config.php runs early in the order of EE code, it stops later code getting confused by the presence of the variable.

This approach also has the added benefit of leaving the URL unchanged, which means any Javascript based analytics that are running will still function as intended.

Excellent, thanks for your swift reply!

Andrew

All arguments after a ? character in a URL are available to PHP as variables in an array called $_GET.

This code checks for the presence of one called ‘gclid’ and removes it if found. Because config.php runs early in the order of EE code, it stops later code getting confused by the presence of the variable.

This approach also has the added benefit of leaving the URL unchanged, which means any Javascript based analytics that are running will still function as intended.

Hi
where I can find config.php ?
I have similar problem with 3-rd party tracking. Instead ‘gclid’ I have ‘campaign’

Not sure if I can use:

if(isset($_GET[‘campaign’])) {
unset($_GET['campaign']);
}

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/

Does anyone know if this whole issue has been adressed/fixed in one of the younger releases of EE?

I am just curious and in the process of setting up a new site and stumbled across this thread and wanted to go “future-proof” with my setup but couldn’t reproduce the problem without even changing anything.

I am using Focus Labs Master Config and checked it too if something going in that direction was included by default, but it doesn’t seem like it (or I am not seeing it). So any information on this would be super awesome. 😊

Thanks and Cheers, Marc