Campaign Tracking via PHP Tracker API

Support & Bugs
1

Hello everybody,

first of all thank you very much for this great product!

Right now, I have a little problem and I hope you can help me solving it: I want to track campaigns using the PHP Tracker API and I can’t get campaigns to show up in my reports. Here is my code:


require_once './PiwikTracker.php';
  
  PiwikTracker::$URL = 'http://192.168.1.1';
  
  $t = new PiwikTracker( 19 );
  
  
  $cp[0] = 'min_test';
  $cp[1] = 'min_test';
  
  $t->setAttributionInfo(json_encode($cp));


    // Mandatory: set the URL being tracked
    $t->setUrl( 'http://example.org' );

   $t->doTrackPageView('TEST_Z');
...

and the api call:


http://192.168.1.1/piwik.php?idsite=19&rec=1&apiv=1&rand=1679400080&cip=192.168.1.22&_id=10233ece08fdae63&url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.org&urlref=&_rcn=min_test&_rck=min_test&action_name=TEST_Z

Please note that tracking actually works for sitename e.g. Sitename “TEST_Z” actually shows up in report, but just campaigns doesn’t.

Since it didn’t work I also added pk_campaign and pk_kwd to the api call url:


http://192.168.1.1/piwik.php?idsite=19&rec=1&apiv=1&rand=1679400080&cip=192.168.1.22&_id=10233ece08fdae63&url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.org&urlref=&_rcn=min_test&pk_campaign=min_test&_rck=min_test&pk_kwd=min_test&action_name=TEST_Z

But still no luck :frowning: I hope you can help me.

Thank you!

2

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone can tell me if the functionality in the PHP Tracker API for tracking campaigns already exists? Can setAttributeInfo only be used for goal tracking?

Thank you.

3

Yes you can, you have to call setUrl() with the URL containing campaign parameters as per http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-campaigns/url-builder/

4

Thanks a lot, Matt!

This actually worked out great! I would love to see that in the Piwik Tracker API as I couldn’t get any result using setAttributeInfo (I assume this is just used for goal tracking).

Here ist my minimal tracking example. Be sure to fill $pk_ vars on the top.


define('PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH', dirname(__FILE__));  
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/libs/PiwikTracker/PiwikTracker.php';
    
PiwikTracker::$URL = 'http://urltopiwik';
      
$t = new PiwikTracker($pk_siteid);
  
$t->setUrl('http://example.com/?pk_campaign='.$pk_campaign.'&pk_kwd='.$pk_kwd);
    
$t->doTrackPageView($pk_campaign);

With the example above, campaigns show up in reports of the defined site ($pk_siteid).

Thank you.