google analytics + archive questions

[Dismounted]

Ah, sorry about that, I though the Archive had it's own templates. No, it wouldn't work in the footer template as the archive generates its own HTML on-the-fly.

[styleforum]

Yeah, I pulled the archive source after adding Google ads to the archive, and didn't see the tracker in there. So I tried editing the archive/index.php to include the script and it didn't work - wouldn't parse at all, I don't know what I'm doing in there exactly, just pasted it right before the </body>.

So does this plugin thing work for this purpose then? I'll try it. Thanks.

I must be blind, I don't see archive_header_start. I see:

archive_global
archive_process_start
archive_postheader
archive_navigation
archive_forum
archive_forum_thread
archive_thread_post
archive_complete

[Dismounted]

Use archive_process_start .

[styleforum]

Thanks, I used archive_complete and it worked, so I think I'll leave it. Cheers.

[Spinball]

I used archive_complete and get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/sites/avforums/public_html/forums/archive/index.php(453) : eval()'d code on line 1

when I view archive pages using 3.6.7PL1

[Dismounted]

What are you putting in for the PHP code.

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

What are you putting in for the PHP code.

Erm, just putting the Google HTML Script tags. No PHP code.

Fixed it.
You have to put

PHP Code:

$output .= "<script src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js\" type=\"text/javascript\">
</script>
<script type=\"text/javascript\">
_uacct = \"XX-XXXXXXX-X\";
urchinTracker();
</script>"; 


in to the archive_complete hook.

[Voyager-S]

I'm bumping this thread as I really want to have my archive tracked by Google Analytics, however the new code is different from the one you posted above. My new code looks like this:

PHP 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-XXXXXXX-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script> 


What should I do to have this added to my archive? I tried using a plugin from archive_complete but I get a parse error everytime, and other different errors.

Anybody? thanks in advance

[Dismounted]

PHP Code:

$output .= '<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-XXXXXXX-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>'; 


[Voyager-S]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

PHP Code:

$output .= '<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-XXXXXXX-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>'; 


Oh wow, thank you!! It finnally works. Now I only have to wait and see if the results get tracked in Google Analytics

Thanks again, dismounted!