how to track pages

Involved Joined: Apr 22, 2006 Posts: 356

I had put together a site for a friend, he wants to be able to track page visits by adding some code after the body tag on each page. The tracking code actually runs through a marketing site that can send him real time stats to his iphone and such, since the site is dynamic can I do this?

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:50 pm

Yes it is possible, but in order for anyone to offer a suggestion how we need to know more about how this is supposed to work.

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 8:42 pm

basically i just have to add a cple lines of code to the desired pages for tracking.

Code:

<script src='http://moonraymarketing.com/tracking.js' type='text/javascript'></script>


<script>


_mri = "2092_1_2";


mrtracking();


</script>

but since the pages are dynamic, i am not sure where to put the code

Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 9:49 pm

you could probably just go to
admin -> preferences

and add it to one of the footer sections

to make it compliant I changed it a little, but try adding that to your footer,
just make sure to use the WYSIWYG editor in "source" mode Smile

Code:

<script src='http://moonraymarketing.com/tracking.js' type='text/javascript'></script>


<script type='text/javascript'>


/*<![CDATA[*/


_mri = "2092_1_2";


mrtracking();


/*]]>*/


</script>

if you curious why I added that...
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/blog/entry/updating-a-javascript-to-be-xhtml-compliant/

registered · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:19 am

Or, do what I do, and add to a script called: includes/custom_files/custom_footer.php. If you do not already have this script, you simply need to create a new one with this name and start it off with:

<?php

So, for your example, this might work just fine:

Code:




<?php


echo <<<_JS_


<style type="text/css">


<!--


<script src='http://moonraymarketing.com/tracking.js' type='text/javascript'></script>


<script type='text/javascript'>


/*<![CDATA[*/


_mri = "2092_1_2";


mrtracking();


/*]]>*/


</script>


-->


</style>


_JS_;

I purposely did not close the file with a "?>" although it is fine to put it there as long as there is nothing after it, not even a newline/space.