We’re tracking our visitors by Piwik and I find it great.
However, I’m facing some difficulties using the APIs, especially with custom variables.
What I need to get is the very first origin of some registered user.
Imagine the flow:
- an anonymous user comes to our website from somewhere (this is displayed on the frontend under the ‘visitor log -> first visit -> from’ section)
- the user then registers (maybe) and starts using our website as an authenticated user, and we pass a custom variable called ‘username’ to Piwik.
How can I get the origin of the visitor - where he came from - programmatically? I don’t actually know when the user firstly came to the website. I want to create some kind of a function which would take only the user’s username and then it would return his origin - the URL of the site where he came from.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you!
(Asked @ SO as well, but it seems I won’t get the answer there…)