Google Charts API

Anyone played around with this ?

Would like some advice please.

We wish to show , charts for:

today

this week

this month

this year

Example of todays clicks, want to know how we can propagate the data.

If this is something you have played with, let me know please.

( we will be serving the data from mysql )

Need the y axis to be dynamic and stretch to max clicks , etc. Also need to know how to get data in, etc.

dtbaker said
like:

http://dtbaker.com.au/random-bits/google-analytics-php-api.html ?

Yep !

How do you fancy creating a daily weekly monthly analytics model for us mate ?

I ask because the recent about.me dashboard has some quite funky analytics ( akin to what you demoed above )

This would fit right in with our project.

My issue is I am utter pants at php ( my business partner is a whizz ) possibly not as adept as you. We will be fetching and storing data from multiple pages for new site we are creating.

So really need to be able to shoehorn this in.

If its something your interested in, would appreciate some feedback, plus your local… and I reckon if you wanted to, we would love to bring you onboard. The site will be massive.

Cheers Ste

Cheers Dave,

Had played with the API .

I guess My issue was getting the data into the charts, as i said I am a knob when it comes to that sort of stuff..

Will have a word with Ky ( my buisness partner ) when he is back , and have a play.

Yer, if and when you have a free day or so, gimme a shout and see what we can do Im only an hour from you.

Thanks for doing that ! Awesome, gives us and others a head start cheers

dtbaker said
Example Google Analytics PHP Graph Code posted here for anyone to use:

http://dtbaker.com.au/random-bits/google-analytics-php-api.html

also here: http://snipplr.com/view/45911/google-analytics-php-example/

Thanks for this

Ok I am slow, but finally sat down and started to try to implement this.

Unless gapi.class ( has changed ) just downloaded latest build. I have only uploaded gapi.class.php to our server.

I also created item_analytics.php page using your code from your snipplr.

I changed the GA account email and pass, to match our analytics stuff. I also added our ga id.

But I keep getting error message. When we run the script.

I have checked dbl checked and triple checked our GA access details, and all are good. Any suggestions what could be causing the error ?

Ignore me , now working. Not sure what happened there.

O this is really cool. Good work Dave. ................. I have some questions hopefully not to far off the beaten track, I havent played with GA before.

We are creating a site with tons and tons of client content ( for sale stuff ) So eg. a typical site page maybe www.domain.com/forsale/itemid_12345

Thats just a very crass example. We have GA on every single page of the site.

A user may list say 3 itmes for sale, the ids of which are arbitrary but are fetched from our db. They could be : itemid_12345 , itemid_23456,itemid_333456

etc. So I am trying to create a analytics module in their usercp, where they can view analytics for their ads. Essentially what I want to do, is onlick fetch results for a particular itemid_xxxxx and display it to that user. Can we do this on the fly ..

track pageview etc, but can we inject into this somehow an item id. ( same as the page id used to fetch the ad details for a particular page )

I am betting this is a function already and my ineptitude is showing .. just wanted some pointers. We cannot go into analytics and add every single page as a individual page to our analytics ,it would get mad.

Lastly apologies but , can you give some examples somewhere of other data we can parse and represent on page, like on your web page . Pie charts, visitor countries, referring urls , browser stuff etc…