Google Universal Analytics - Measurement Protocol

Master:

Develop:

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This implements Google's Measurement Protocol. This protocol is a REST api which you can use to send data from your client or server side.

This is a server-side implementation, which you might want to use to send analytics to Google that's related to your application - server metrics, exception tracking, etc.

Google developer docs can be found here.

Install

This is available via Packagist. You can install this by adding a dependency in your composer.json file.

{
    "require": {
        "fideloper/universalanalytics": "dev-master"
    },
}

Then run:

$ composer install  # or composer update

Note: Composer will now install the dev dependencies by default. For this project, those are phpunit and mockery.

Basic Usage

Here is some basic usage:

<?php

$ua = new \UniversalAnalytics\UA(array(
    'v' => 1,
    'tid' => 'UX-XXXX-XXX',
    'cid' => 555,
));

$event = new \UniversalAnalytics\Track\Event;
$event->category = 'Video';
$event->action = 'Play';
$event->label = 'Cat Video 42';
$event->value = '0';

$request = $ua->track($event);
$response = $request->send();

Alternatively, there's a slightly easier implementation:

$ua = new \UniversalAnalytics\UA(array(
    'v' => 1,
    'tid' => 'UX-XXXX-XXX',
    'cid' => 555,
));

$request = $ua->event(array(
    'category' => 'Video',
    'action' => 'Play',
    'label' => 'Cat Video 42',
    'value' => '0',
))->track();

$response = $request->send();

IoC Container

Binding to your app

You'll likely want to put this into some sort of IoC. How that looks will depend on your application. Here's an example for Laravel 4.

Set up a config file:

// app/config/ga.php

<?php

return array(
    'trackingid' => 'UX-XXXX-XXX',
);

Then in your Laravel code, perhaps a start.php file:

App::bind('ua', function() {
    return new \UniversalAnalytics\UA(array(
        'v' => 1, // This likely won't change anytime soon
        'tid' => Config::get('ga.trackingid')
    ));
});

// Later, somewhere in your code...

$ua = App::make('ua');

$ua->clientid(Auth::user()->id); // Pass in some sort of session-based user id

$request = $ua->event(array(
    'category' => 'Video',
    'action' => 'Play',
    'label' => 'Cat Video 42',
    'value' => '0',
))->track();

$response = $request->send();

To Do

1. Request should have requester interface with Buzz implementation, for testing/maintainability.