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Hi all

Has anyone ever tried using google’s analytics for mobile (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/other/mobileWebsites) on an ExpressionEngine based mobile site? I’ve implemented it exactly as in their example but nothing is being picked up by google. I was just wondering if the way EE parses php might not have something to do with it - I’ve noticed that the $GA_ACCOUNT and $GA_PIXEL variables assigned global scope in the script aren’t available in the function in my EE template - I’ve just re-declared them within the function, but that got me thinking.

Anyway, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hey Lima

I have not used it but I do have a silly question…have you turned on PHP for the template you’re embedding the GA-M code?

Mark

Hi Lima,

if you are trying to put google’s analytics code into EE template, they will not work. So, it will be best way to develop a plugin for it which will return google’s analytics image URL. And just place the custom plugin tag into your template/page where you want.

Hope this would help you.

Best Regards,

It won’t work? Why is that? There’s got to a better why than having to write a plug-in.

Hi ChiefAlchemist,

Did you look into PHP code provided here https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/other/mobileWebsites.

I suggested for plugin because it will be the better way rather than having that code into EE template.

Best Regards,

Thanks for your replies. I agree that building it into a module and keeping php out of templates would be better - but is there any reason why it wouldn’t work in a template? As far as I can tell it is generating the correct url for the ga.php file.

Hi Lima,

I am not much sure about it. I think, putting these code into EE template wouldn’t create image url into img src. But i didn’t tried but putting into EE template. I tried by using PHP files and it worked well.

Can you please check the image src URL and open it in a new browser window if it’s outputting image of 1x1.

Best Regards,