New extension: Google Analytics Panel

Excellent. Sounds great, and perfect timing for a client site that I’m hoping to launch this week. So presuming all works as expected, and its stable, I can see me using this and it becoming an absolutely great extension!

Absolutely brilliant! Can’t wait to try this out

Just tried it on my own site and it works perfectly 😊

Fantastic extension Derek! I loaded it up and don’t see all of my profiles though. My particular google account is setup as an “admin” to numerous accounts and 4 of my profiles (all under a single account) are not showing up. I don’t know how the Analytics API works so I don’t know what settings to look for in GA. Any thoughts?

Also, in the docs you mention that the API is kinda slow. Have you considered building in a cache to the extension and allow a refresh setting in the extension settings?

Great Job! 😊

Just pushed an update to GitHub to fix this Erik (I was only fetching 20 profiles - now it will fetch 100).

Re: caching - I did consider that, but it definitely makes it less useful. I really wanted to have a “Today” display, and a cache kinda defeats that. Since the home screen isn’t repeatedly loaded as a general rule, I wasn’t going to get my panties in a knot over the slight lag. 😊

Just pushed an update to GitHub to fix this Erik (I was only fetching 20 profiles - now it will fetch 100).

Sweet. Thanks for the quick update. Fantastic extension. 😊

Is there any way the password can be stored and used in an encrypted format? Unfortunately storing the password in the database is a deal breaker for me for security reasons…

Hi there,

Thanks for this extension - been hoping for something like this for a while now!

I’ve installed it, but I can’t seem to get it working. It keeps saying “No account profiles available (check credentials?)” even though I’ve entered the correct username and password, the same details as I use to login to google.com/analytics.

I’ve even tried different variations for the username - username, [email protected], [email protected], etc, but to no avail. Have tried two sets of usernames actually and neither worked when I went back into the settings after saving them (both Administrator roles for the Google Analytics profiles). I’ve also tried disabling and re-enabling the extension, deleting, re-downloading it from GitHub (both zip and tar versions for good measure), and re-installing, but no joy.

I’m using 1.6.8 build 20091002 and the server is running php 5.2.10. Have also got 1.0.1 version of the Custom CP Home Panels installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Is there any way the password can be stored and used in an encrypted format? Unfortunately storing the password in the database is a deal breaker for me for security reasons…

Would base64 encoding do the trick for you? It would be encoded in the database, so peering eyes couldn’t see it, but it can of course be decrypted using base64_decode if someone cared to.

It keeps saying “No account profiles available (check credentials?)” even though I’ve entered the correct username and password, the same details as I use to login to google.com/analytics.

All I can think of is asking if you’re 100%, positively sure that your credentials are correct. 😊 When I was writing this extension, I almost gave up, thinking that something in EE was blocking the authentication routine, until I realized I had transposed two characters in my username.

Google does expect an email address as the account login.

Is there any way the password can be stored and used in an encrypted format? Unfortunately storing the password in the database is a deal breaker for me for security reasons…

Would base64 encoding do the trick for you? It would be encoded in the database, so peering eyes couldn’t see it, but it can of course be decrypted using base64_decode if someone cared to.

Well my primary concern is I may have an EE site where multiple people manage extension settings but only one person needs to know the GA info. When loading the settings to this extension the password field would decrypt the password so that it’s correct on submission again. Honestly I know know what the best solution would be here…

Is there any way the password can be stored and used in an encrypted format? Unfortunately storing the password in the database is a deal breaker for me for security reasons…

Would base64 encoding do the trick for you? It would be encoded in the database, so peering eyes couldn’t see it, but it can of course be decrypted using base64_decode if someone cared to.

Well my primary concern is I may have an EE site where multiple people manage extension settings but only one person needs to know the GA info. When loading the settings to this extension the password field would decrypt the password so that it’s correct on submission again which means the password is visible in the source (value=”the_password”). Honestly I know know what the best solution would be here…

Edit: Great…looks like I click “quote” instead of “edit” on that one. Sorry about that! I wish I could delete accidents like this…

I see what you’re saying. I don’t think there’s really a way around this, besides a far more complicated settings process. Something like: enter credentials, and if they verify, store them and no longer display the username/password box. Then add a “forget credentials” option, which would delete them and offer up the form again.

I’d suggest creating a new Google account for this particular site, and adding that account as a “user” to that site’s profile in GA, then logging in to the extension with that account. That way, access to the password is of no worry.

It keeps saying “No account profiles available (check credentials?)” even though I’ve entered the correct username and password, the same details as I use to login to google.com/analytics.

All I can think of is asking if you’re 100%, positively sure that your credentials are correct. 😊 When I was writing this extension, I almost gave up, thinking that something in EE was blocking the authentication routine, until I realized I had transposed two characters in my username. Google does expect an email address as the account login.

Yeah, I’ve checked them and typed them in very carefully (3 different Google accounts now) but with no joy. My very first attempt did use the wrong password though, but the next 10 attempts were definitely correct. 😊

Not to worry, I’ll try it on another site and see if I have any joy there.

Thanks.

Wow, works great!

Thanks!

Would love to see MSM support and maybe some more users settings.

I love how it lists todays stats.

Thanks