Adding Google Analytics To RavenNuke and PHPNuke (GUIDE)

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:59 pm

The only way that i know of that it is possible to get this to work correctly, having been asked this myself and also had customers inform me of e-mails replied to by google is the following:

Use ONLY Legacy Tracking Code (urchin.js)

Select all and copy you code, which will look like this:

Code:




<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">


</script>


<script type="text/javascript">


_uacct = "AA-1234567-1";


urchinTracker();


</script>

Of course your _uacct (account number) will be different for everyone.

Now you need to edit this so that it can be placed correctly in a php file, without getting white screen syntax errors.

So you need to make it look like this:

Code:




echo "<script src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js\" type=\"text/javascript\">\n";


echo "</script>\n";


echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n";


echo "_uacct = \"AA-1234567-1\";\n";


echo "urchinTracker();\n";


echo "</script>\n\n";

Keeping each echo on a seperate line.

Now you need to open up your 'header.php' (back up first, without saying of course).

And find:

Code:




    //End of Dynamic Titles changes


    include_once('includes/meta.php');


    include_once('includes/javascript.php');


    include_once("includes/noright2.php");

On a new line add:

Code:




// Start Google Analytics Code


echo "<script src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js\" type=\"text/javascript\">\n";


echo "</script>\n";


echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n";


echo "_uacct = \"AA-1234567-1\";\n";


echo "urchinTracker();\n";


echo "</script>\n\n";


// Finish Google Analytics Code

And re-upload.

You should not get any errors, please allow 24 hours from when you added this to your site for google to check for the update.

Hope this answers so many people's questions ive seen out there.

If you do get any problems, ide be happy to help you with doing this, as this tool is extremely useful.

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Trunks

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:41 am

It is possible to use the new tracking code in phpNuke and I have it working on one of my sites. We had a discussion about it over at Guardians site: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

You can paste into the WYSIWYG editor under preferences, using the source option.

What version of RN are you using?

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:53 am

You can also do as I, and create yourself an includes/custom_files/custom_footer.php script to place the code. All three of these will work.

One can have a custom_header.php, custom_footer.php, and/or custom_mainfile.php in that directory as ways to extend the capabilities of these.

Since this is applicable to all versions of RN, I will move this thread accordingly.