Laravel Matomo Tracker

A seamless and lightweight Matomo Analytics integration for Laravel application tracking. This package wraps the official Matomo PHP Tracker to provide a Laravel-friendly syntax, including Facades, auto-configuration, and background processing.

Features

• Auto-configuration: Automatically detects Client IP, User-Agent, and Browser Language.
• Queue Support: Dispatch tracking requests to the background for high-performance applications.
• User Tracking: Automatically links Matomo User ID with Laravel Auth (configurable attribute).
• Smart Event Tracking: Supports strings, arrays, or objects as payloads (automatically encoded).
• Flexible Tracking: Supports Page Views, Custom Events, Site Search, and Goals.
• Custom Dimensions: Easily set custom dimensions for your tracking data.
• Laravel Integration: Includes a Facade and Service Provider with auto-discovery.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require fyrndly/laravel-matomo-tracker

The package will automatically register its service provider and facade.

Configuration

First, publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="matomo-config"

Then, add your Matomo details to your .env file:

Configuration Options

• url: Your Matomo server URL.
• site_id: Your Matomo site ID.
• token: Required for manual IP tracking or administrative features.
• user_id_attribute: The attribute from the User model to use as the Matomo User ID (e.g., email, id).
• queue: Set to true to handle tracking in the background. Requires a working Laravel Queue worker.

Usage

Using the Facade

use FyrnDly\Matomo\Facades\Matomo;

// Track a Page View
Matomo::pageView('Home Page');

// Track a Goal
Matomo::goal(1, 50.0);

// Track Site Search
Matomo::search('search keyword', 'category', 10);

Enhanced Event Tracking

The event method supports complex data. If you pass an array or object to the $payload parameter, it will be automatically JSON-encoded and Base64-encoded for safe storage in Matomo.

// Simple Event
Matomo::event('Category', 'Action', 'Simple Name');

// Event with Payload (Array/Object)
$data = [
    'user_type' => 'premium',
    'source' => 'referral',
    'step' => 3
];

Matomo::event('Onboarding', 'StepCompleted', $data);

Livewire & Filament Auto-Tracking

You can effortlessly track page views in your Livewire components or Filament pages by simply including the MatomoTrackView trait. It hooks into the component's lifecycle and automatically resolves the page title.

use Livewire\Component;
use FyrnDly\Matomo\Traits\MatomoTrackView;

class Dashboard extends Component
{
    use MatomoTrackView;

    public $pageTitle = 'Main Dashboard'; // Automatically tracked as "Go to page Main Dashboard"
}

Note: This trait smartly looks for $pageTitle, $title, $heading properties, or getTitle(), getHeading(), getRecordTitle() methods (perfect for Filament v3).

High Traffic Handling (Queue)

For high-traffic applications, it is highly recommended to enable the queue to prevent API latency from affecting the user experience.

1. Set MATOMO_QUEUE=true in your .env.
2. Ensure your QUEUE_CONNECTION is not set to sync.
3. Run your queue worker: php artisan queue:work.

Custom Dimensions

You can set custom dimensions before tracking:

Matomo::setCustomDimension(1, 'Premium User')
    ->pageView('Dashboard');

Manual User ID

If you need to manually set or override the User ID for a specific request:

Matomo::setUserId('custom-user-id')->pageView('Profile Page');

Accessing the Raw Tracker

If you need to access methods directly from the underlying MatomoTracker instance:

$rawTracker = Matomo::getRawTracker();

Credits

• FyrnDly
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.