Google Analytics PHP Class & Official Analytics API

We have previously talked about Google Analytics PHP API, in that time there was no official API available yet. Today Google Analytics API is officially available to developers, so you can get your code working with a real API instead of hacks that might broke anytime if Google update their service… etc.

Doug Tan, Ask about PHP, have written Google Analytics PHP Class using the new API and a good tutorial on how to use it. Pretty simple and very easy to use, you will get Analytics data right in your applications in minutes. Below a sample code :

<br /> // include the Google Analytics PHP class<br /> include “googleanalytics.class.php”;<br /> // create an instance of the GoogleAnalytics class using your own Google {email} and {password}<br /> $ga = new GoogleAnalytics(‘{email}’,'{password}’);<br /> // set the Google Analytics profile you want to access – format is ‘ga:123456’;<br /> $ga->setProfile(‘{GA Profile ID}’);<br /> // set the date range we want for the report – format is YYYY-MM-DD<br /> $ga->setDateRange(‘2009-04-01′,’2009-04-07’);<br /> // get the report for date and country filtered by Australia, showing pageviews and visits<br /> $report = $ga->getReport(<br /> array(‘dimensions’=>urlencode(‘ga:date,ga:country’),<br /> ‘metrics’=>urlencode(‘ga:pageviews,ga:visits’),<br /> ‘filters’=>urlencode(‘ga:country=@Australia’),<br /> ‘sort’=>’-ga:pageviews’<br /> )<br /> );<br /> //print out the $report array<br /> print_r($report);<br />