PHP-only Piwik API?

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Is it possible to use the Piwik API via PHP only (no external requests like PiwikTracker.php).

I’m using PiwikTracker.php to track visitors like in this tutorial:

Unforunately, this makes every pageview add an aditional HTTP request to Piwik, which is housed on the same server.
As a result of this, my Apache workers clog up (see attached image).

Can we access the Piwik API through PHP only? So no extra requests are passed to Apache.

Thanks.

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Hello! yes it is possible, but we haven’t documented this way. The PHP tracking API documented at: http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-api/reference/

can be used via PHP process intead of http request (eg. calling PHP executable on piwik.php)

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Hi Matt!

Do you mean I could do this:


$t = new PiwikTracker($idSite,'/var/www/piwik/piwik.php');
...

?

If not, could you provide an example of how to connect using PHP file?

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eg. something like this should work:


shell_exec('/bin/php path/to/piwik.php -- "trackingQueryString=Here"')