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I have a website where I send events to Google Analytics using javascript function:
ga('send', 'event', 'showphone', 'feedback', 'result');
However I also need to send some similar events from server-side using PHP. I tried this quick start tutorial: Hello Analytics API: PHP quickstart for service accounts and reporting works like a charm, but I have no idea how to send event.
Could you please show me step-by-step what I should code to send exactly same event like mentioned above.
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Nope, measurement protocol is the only way to send tracking data to Google analytics.
Analytics collection can take place on both the client and server side. Google Analytics provides easy to use APIs and SDKs to send data to Google Analytics. In addition to those, we have developed code that you can use in your App Engine applications to easily send server-side analytics to Google Analytics.
Send data with the event command Once you've added the global snippet to a web page, use the event command to send data to Google Analytics. For example, use the following event command to indicate that a user has signed in using their Google account: gtag('event', 'login', {'method': 'Google'});
sendBeacon() method asynchronously sends an HTTP POST request containing a small amount of data to a web server. It's intended to be used for sending analytics data to a web server, and avoids some of the problems with legacy techniques for sending analytics, such as the use of XMLHttpRequest .
Hello Analytics API: PHP quickstart for service accounts is not going to help you at all. That code uses the core reporting API the core reporting API is for requesting data from Google Analytics not sending data to Google Analytics.
To send data to Google Analytics we use the Measurement Protocol. The measurement protocol is used to send information to Google analytics the JS snippet you posted also uses the measurement protocol.
You can use the measurement protocol from any language that supports HTTP post or Http Get. That being said there is no PHP specific library for sending information to Google analytics you are going to have to format your post yourself. A tip would be to use Validating hits to check it before you send it to Google while you are developing this.
It will probably look something like this
http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXX-Y&cid=35009a79-1a05-49d7-b876-2b884d0f825b&an=My%20Awesom%20APP&aid=com.daimto.awesom.app&av=1.0.0&aiid=come.daimto.awesom.installer &t=event&ec=list&ea=accounts&userclicked&ev=10
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