Google Analytics PHP API - A Simple Example

Question

I am trying to install some basic example of using Google Analytics with this library: https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client

For starter, I have:

<?php require_once 'Google/Client.php'; require_once 'Google/Service/Analytics.php'; $client = new Google_Client(); $client->setApplicationName("Client_Library_Examples"); $client->setDeveloperKey("MY_SECRET_API"); //security measures $service = new Google_Service_Analytics($client); $results = $service->data_ga; echo '<pre>'; print_r($results); echo '</pre>'; 

Q: How to get data from Google Analytics from this query?

 /* https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ ga?ids=ga%123456 &dimensions=ga%3Acampaign &metrics=ga%3Atransactions &start-date=2013-12-25 &end-date=2014-01-08 &max-results=50 */ 

Answer 1

 $client->setDeveloperKey("MY_SECRET_API"); 

First of all, since, as I understand it, this will not work for authentication, you will need to use OAuth2 authentication. There are two options for this: using a client identifier for a web application or using a service account. Api authorization

After that you can make such a call. (Here I use the service account)

First authenticate:

 $key = file_get_contents($key_file_location); $cred = new Google_Auth_AssertionCredentials( $service_account_name, array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'), $key ); $client->setAssertionCredentials($cred); 

Call:

 $ids = 'ga:123456'; //your id $startDate = '2013-12-25'; $endDate = '2014-01-08'; $metrics = 'ga:transactions'; $optParams = array( 'dimensions' => 'ga:campaign', 'max-results' => '50' ); $results = $service->data_ga->get($ids, $startDate, $endDate, $metrics, $optParams); //Dump results echo "<h3>Results Of Call:</h3>"; echo "dump of results"; var_dump($results); echo "results['totalsForAllResults']"; var_dump($results['totalsForAllResults']); echo "results['rows']"; foreach ($results['rows'] as $item) { var_dump($item); } 

Answer 2

You will need to do http to get the information from the url.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-get.php

Remember that you still have to add the Oauth2 authentication code to the string before you can send this request. This link may help if you no longer have auth code. https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/articles/hello-analytics-api#authorize_access

Answer 3

what you can do is create a new function ...

 function ga_campaign_transactions($gaEmail, $gaPass, $gProfile, $limit) { require_once('classes/google-analytics/gapi.class.php'); $gDimensions = array('campaign'); $gMetrics = array('transactions'); $gSortMetric = NULL; $gFilter = ''; $gSegment = ''; $gStartDate = '2013-12-25'; $gEndDate = '2014-01-08'; $gStartIndex = 1; $gMaxResults = $limit; $ga = new gapi($gaEmail, $gaPass); $ga->requestReportData($gProfile, $gDimensions, $gMetrics, $gSortMetric, $gFilter, $gSegment, $gStartDate, $gEndDate, $gStartIndex, $gMaxResults); $gAnalytics_results = $ga->getResults(); //RETURN RESULTS return $gAnalytics_results; } $gProfile = '123456'; // The Profile ID for the account, NOT GA: $gaEmail = 'YOUR GOOGLE EMAIL'; // Google Email address. $gaPass = 'YOUR GOOGLE PASSWORD'; // Google Password. // NOTE: if 2 step login is turned on, create an application password. $limit = 50; $ga_campaign_transactions = ga_campaign_transactions($gaEmail, $gaPass, $gProfile, $limit) //OUTPUT if(!empty($ga_campaign_transactions)) { $counter=0; $gaCampResults= array(); // CREATE ARRAY TO STORE ALL RESULTS foreach($ga_campaign_transactions as $row) { $dim_list = $row->getDimesions(); $met_list = $row->getMetrics(); $gaCampResults[$counter]['campaign'] = $dim_list['campaign']; $gaCampResults[$counter]['transactions'] = $met_list['transactions']; $counter++; } } if(!empty($gaCampResults)) { $totalCampTransactions = count($gaCampResults); ?> <h2>We Found ( <?php echo number_format($totalCampTransactions,0);?> ) Results</h2> <ul> <?php foreach($gaCampResults as $gaRow){ echo "<li>Campaign:".$gaRow['campaign']." | Transactions: ".$gaRow['transactions']."</li>"; } ?> </ul> <?php } 

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We hope you are on the right track :) this is unchecked, but it looks like I used ...

Marty

Answer 4

If you want to integrate the Google Analytics API with your application, visit Integration and the Google Analytics API Example