New Google Analytics Ecommerce code variables

Hey guy,

I want to use the new google analytics code (see below) to track my website using the ecommerce feature in analytics. What variables should be used? I'm assuming the ones outlined in the thread are suffecient?

What about the category (I think this is the price group). What variable is the price group?

Also do I put ALL this code on the footer.html? I would have thought that the pageTracker code would need to only be on thanks.html file, but not quite sure how I would do that (as footer comes after thanks.html)

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXX-1");
  pageTracker._initData();
  pageTracker._trackPageview();

  pageTracker._addTrans(
    "1234",                                     // Order ID
    "Mountain View",                            // Affiliation
    "11.99",                                    // Total
    "1.29",                                     // Tax
    "5",                                        // Shipping
    "San Jose",                                 // City
    "California",                               // State
    "USA"                                       // Country
  );

  pageTracker._addItem(
    "1234",                                     // Order ID
    "DD44",                                     // SKU
    "T-Shirt",                                  // Product Name 
    "Green Medium",                             // Category
    "11.99",                                    // Price
    "1"                                         // Quantity
  );

google analytics

Hi,

I see the issue - I'm also with Paypal...

The only solution to the paypal issue (I also use paypal), I *guess* if you were really keen on getting it to work would be to do something like not even putting the ecommerce code on thanks.php, but rather, changing the paypal ipn. That way when a sale is made by paypal, the ipn somehow triggers for the ecommerce to trigger....but I'm no programmer so I would have no idea what to do.

Thanks for the multiple transaction solution. I would love to be able to sell more than one item at a time, but with a mixture of radio box's an check box's. Although I may try it with just the checkbox's.....we'll see.

Also any idea what the variable is for price_group? Is it p.price_group?

Thanks in advance....

Ronnie

Skippybosco,am I supposed to enter this code exactly how it is or am I supposed to revise whatever is in the quotes? I am not a coder and I am trying to track my ecommerce on Google Analytics. Do I enter this code on the receipt page that says Order Complete or do I enter this code on the order confirmation page?

Thanks for your help! I am desperate in getting this to work.

For the new code...throw the analytics code just before the head tag.. in header.html

then in thanks.html just before the footer include do this..
While i haven't waited for it to show in google analytics.. (i'll check that tomorrow) it seems to generate the code needed correctly on a test order.

{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
{/literal}
pageTracker._addTrans(
"{$payment.payment_id}", // Order ID
"", // Affiliation
"{$total|string_format:'%.2f'}", // Total
"0", // Tax
"0", // Shipping
"{$member.city}", // City
"{$member.state}", // State
"{$member.country}" // Country
);

{foreach from=$products item=p}
pageTracker._addItem(
"{$payment.payment_id}", // Order ID
"", // SKU
"{$p.title}", // Product Name
"", // Category
"{$p.price}", // Price
"1" // Quantity
);
{/foreach}

pageTracker._trackTrans();
</script>

Yes it works and yes the literal tag is what made it happen.
A few real memberships have gone through it so far and they show correctly.

If you use AdBlock Plus, you might have noticed that a javascript error occurs on the google analytics code when AdBlock Plus is active.

To prevent this javascript error from happening you can change the google analytics code in plugins.inc.php (version 3.2.3) slightly from this:

Code:

    <script type="text/javascript">
        var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("$ga");
        pageTracker._trackPageview();

to this:

Code:

    <script type="text/javascript">
      [COLOR="red"]try {[/COLOR]
        var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("$ga");
        pageTracker._trackPageview();
      [COLOR="red"]} catch(err) {}[/COLOR]

Erwin

Note that I corrected the code, there was a </script> too much in it.

Oh and the code can be found on (or near) line 719