An easy way to integrate Google Analytics with Laravel

For Laravel 5.x, check version 2.5.0

For Laravel 4.x, check version 1.1.0

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": "3.*"
}

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::class,

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\AnalyticsFacade::class,

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

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

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