Extending Piwik for other stats

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Hello,

A user of PHPMyvisits for years, I just discovered Piwik and simpl ylove the new interface.
Having had a quick look around the code, API and read how to create plugins, I was wondering if the dashboard could be use to display other kinds of data not stored in the raw or archived table.

So basically I would like to create a widget displaying to say the average basket per visitor to an e-commerce site. My question is, would it be possible to use te Piwik dashboard and framework to display this statistical information? I guess I will need to have the tables required on the same database, and use the Piwik_Query method to retrieve my data.

If anyone with some good understanding of the piwik code coule tell me if this make sense, it would be very helpful before I investigate any further.

Thanks in any case to the dev team. At first glance this looks like a well thought and designed open source project.

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Go to Settings | Plugins, and activate the ExampleUI plugin.

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Thanks.
Yes I guess that this and the example widgets does answer my question style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

I will share back as soon as I got something viable.

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Any news about this? Is the Piwik dashboard sufficiently modular to be used for other data than web access?

Thanks
E

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What do you mean with “other data than web access”? Can you give an example please, which data do you display as element in the Dashboard?

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Well, for instance sales unit volumes by item type, country, over time etc. In other words using Piwik as a general corporate dashboard rather than (only?) as a web dashboard. I’d think it has the potential for this, though it may require a fork with a more narrowly specialised community.

Cheers
E

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Take a look at the Feedburner Plugin. This Plugin received the data (as XML Feed) from an external ressource. In this case, the Google API for Feedburner.

Ive created a lots of custom Dashboard Elements for my company. Only 50% of my Dasboard are only data from Piwik. We have so many data that Piwik cant track. I combine this external data with the data from piwik.

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Thanks, this sounds promising indeed, I’ll definitely give it a try! Though I should also say that I most likely won’t pipe any potentially sensitive data through “GoogleBurner” - for me Piwik is more about more privacy rather than less.

I’ll definitely report back here (unlike the topic starter :-)), but please keep the ideas coming in the meantime, too!

Many thanks
E

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OK, I have found all the hooks now - very intersting indeed! The ExampleUI plugin (and its supplied widgets) will do the trick (of showing you where to look) perfectly indeed. :slight_smile:

Thanks!
E