Google Analytics tracking

JW,
Sorry for the delayed response. Since Google's tracking is all Javascript based, most of what you'll want to do is 'on page', not necessary in the controllers or other areas which are mostly PHP based to get the page setup. It is possible to do some stuff in there, but may not be the most efficient.

Assuming you're tracking users through a funnel with GA, you have tracking setup on a few different pages of your site. That makes things easier as you (possibly) could just add the tracking code to whatever page the user is redirected to after registration/login. If you're using the redirection settings of JLinked to redirect to a specific menu item after registration, that should make it pretty easy. Simply put the code on that page. If the user hasn't gone through the funnel correctly, it won't trigger (which is good if any old user goes to that destination page).

The other option is to create a special "Thanks for Registering" page on your site and redirect LinkedIn users to that page after registering. Just throw the GA code on that page/article.

Those are the 'easy' solutions. If that's not what you're looking for though, let me know how your redirections are setup and let me know if you're doing funnels or just setting things up more simply as "User went to page 'x'" only, or any other information you have about your goals.

Thanks,
Alex

jwhelan,
Thanks for the further explanation. Normally, doing Javascript inside PHP is very difficult. The PHP code can do redirects and other things that don't print to the screen (or actively erase what's previously been echoed out). However, I just did some testing and found something that might work just great for you, and it's simple too!

Since you basically want to track whenever that string is displayed, just edit the string and put the text in there Edit the file /libraries/en_GB/en-GB.com_jlinked.ini. Find the string:And update it to:The Google track code isn't correct, I just made that up. However, I tested doing that with some other Javascript and it seemed to work fine. Please make sure that you do *not* use double-quotes, only single quotes. Other than that, you should be good!

The other benefit of this is that, since it's in a language file, you're not changing the main component.. so you don't need to remember some obscure file you once edited.

Hope that helps, but definitely keep us posted. Never thought about doing JS in a language string, and pretty surprised/happy to see it works!

Alex

Definitely let us know. Always like the easier solutions over the more complex ones

Thanks, and good luck,
Alex

Yeah, I'm not going to recommend you do that for everything.. and there's no way we'd ever include that within our extension.. but it does avoid a lot of issues and (relatively cleanly) keep your change outside of our code.. which makes upgrading easier later. I wouldn't say it's bad on your end to do at all, and glad to hear it works. Had never tried that before, so was pleasantly surprised when it worked for me to test it out for ya.

On a side note, what's a Joomla language .po file? Not sure I'm familiar with that actually.

Either way, best of luck, and let us know if there's anything else you need!
Alex