An easy way to integrate Google Analytics with Laravel

For Laravel 4.x, check version 1.0.0

Think of Googlitics as an easy way to integrate Google Analytics with Laravel, providing a variety of helpers to speed up the utilisation of application tracking. These include:

• Analytics::trackPage
• Analytics::trackScreen
• Analytics::trackEvent
• Analytics::trackTransaction
• Analytics::trackItem
• Analytics::trackMetric
• Analytics::trackException
• Analytics::trackCustom
• Analytics::render

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require cornford/googlitics.

"require": {
	"cornford/googlitics": "2.*"
}

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update

Once this operation completes, the next step is to add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array.

'Cornford\Googlitics\AnalyticsServiceProvider',

The next step is to introduce the facade. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the aliases array.

'Analytics'         => 'Cornford\Googlitics\Facades\Analytics',

Finally we need to introduce the configuration files into your application/

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Cornford\\Googlitics\\AnalyticsServiceProvider"

That's it! You're all set to go.

Configuration

You can now configure Googlitics in a few simple steps. Open app/config/packages/cornford/googlitics/config.php and update the options as needed.

• enabled - Enable Google Analytics tracking.
• id A Google - Analytics tracking identifier to link Googlitics to Google Analytics.
• domain - The domain which is being tracked. Leave as 'auto' if you want Googlitics to automatically set the current domain. Otherwise enter your domain, e.g. google.com
• anonymise - Anonymise users IP addresses when tracking them via Googlitics.
• automatic - Enable automatic tracking to ensure users are tracked automatically by Googlitics.

Usage

It's really as simple as using the Analytics class in any Controller / Model / File you see fit with:

Analytics::

This will give you access to

• Track Page
• Track Screen
• Track Event
• Track Transaction
• Track Item
• Track Metric
• Track Exception
• Track Custom
• Render

Track Page

The trackPage method allows a page to be tracked, with optional parameters for page, title and track type.

Analytics::trackPage();
Analytics::trackPage('Homepage', 'Homepage Title');
Analytics::trackPage('Homepage', 'Homepage Title', Analytics::TYPE_PAGEVIEW);

Track Screen

The trackScreen method allows a screen in an application to be tracked, with a parameter for the screen name.

Analytics::trackScreen('Homepage');

Track Event

The trackEvent method allows an event to be tracked, with parameters for category, and action option parameters for label and value.

Analytics::trackEvent();
Analytics::trackEvent('User', 'Sign up');
Analytics::trackEvent('User', 'Sign up', 'User - Sign up', date());

Track Transaction

The trackTransaction method allows an ecommerce transaction to tracked, with parameters for identifier, and an optional options parameter for affiliation, revenue, shipping, tax in a key value array format.

Analytics::trackTransaction('123');
Analytics::trackTransaction('123', ['affiliation' => 'Clothing', 'revenue' => '12.99', 'shipping' => '7.99', 'tax' => '1.59']);

Track Item

The trackItem method allows an ecommerce item to tracked, with parameters for identifier and name, and an optional options parameter for sku, category, price, quantity in a key value array format.

Analytics::trackItem('123', 'Socks');
Analytics::trackItem('123', 'Socks', ['sku' => 'PR123', 'category' => 'Clothing', 'price' => '7.99', 'quantity' => '1']);

Track Metric

The trackMetric method allows a metric to be tracked, with parameters for category, and an options parameter in a key value array format.

Analytics::trackMetric('Metric', ['metric1' => 100]);

Track Exception

The trackException method allows application exceptions to be tracked, with optional parameters for description and fatality.

Analytics::trackException();
Analytics::trackException('500 Server Error', true);

Track Custom

The trackCustom method allows custom items to be tracked with a single parameter for the custom item.

Analytics::trackCustom("ga('custom', 'parameter');");

Render

The render method allows all tracking items to be rendered to the page, this method can be included in Views or added as controller passed parameter.

Analytics::render();

License

Googlitics is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license