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Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
24 October 2009 at 9:20am Last edited: 24 October 2009 9:21am
I have been fighting this for days. I have tried the meta tag because I didn't think SS excepted /?t=tracking codes on the end of the url. So I was trying the custom meta tag, in both cases, it works fine on a standard .php page, but not in Silverstripe.
Any ideas of how anyone else is grabbing the tracking code from google adwords campaign when using SS as a landing page???
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
24 October 2009 at 10:07am
You'll have to do some custom coding for this. Probably in the init() of Page_Controller for all pages, or the specific action if you are working with a particular one.
You can grab t like so:
if( $tracking = $this->request->getVar('t') ) {
// Do something with $tracking
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
24 October 2009 at 1:19pm Last edited: 24 October 2009 1:21pm
Thank you. I am ready to try anything. I have not messed with the code of the CMS much so if you would please give me some direction. Where do I locate the init() of Page_Controller?
Ok, found this...
<?php
class LandingPagePpc extends Page {
static $db = array(
);
static $has_one = array(
);
static $icon = "landingpageppc/images/window";
}class LandingPagePpc_Controller extends Page_Controller {
function init() {
parent::init();
Requirements::themedCSS("layout");
Requirements::themedCSS("typography");
Requirements::themedCSS("form");
}
}?>
Would I add your if statement in here?
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
24 October 2009 at 5:45pm Last edited: 24 October 2009 5:52pm
I have exhausted everything. Is there any one out there that can help me with what dalesaurus has proposed? This is the best solution I am sure.
Are there SS programmers?
This all works fine on a stand alone page, somehow SS removes the tracking code.
This is my stand alone page... I am getting the meta content and passing it into the form. I want to use the SS custom meta field to enter my custom meta tracking code for this page. Then I can use one form to get the different tracking codes per page. When I hard code it like in this page it works fine. When I add this code to my .ss file everything passes to the next page, but the tracking code. I do not understand classes, but maybe someone can help me with the answer here.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="tracking" content="mycode" />
<title></title>
</head><body>
<!--START EXIT POPUP -->
<!--<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://oneyearplan.net/snyhof/zmasterT/expop/landing.js.php?id=10113"></script>-->
<!--END EXIT POPUP -->
<!--BEGIN FORM CODE -->
<table width="100%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
<tr><td> </td>
<td width="400">
<table width="100%" height="300" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="20" style="background-color:#FAF8E4; border:#999999 dashed 1px;">
<tr>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="../../../themes/site/images/blank.gif" width="50" height="1"></td>
<td><form method="post" action="http://www.aweber.com/scripts/addlead.pl" target="_top"><input type="hidden" name="unit" value="sne_ccp_leads">
<input type="hidden" name="custom Url" value="oneyearplan.net/snyhof">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://oneyearplan.net/snyhof/redirect.php"> <!--HANDLES LEADS & REDIRECTS-->
<input type="hidden" name="meta_redirect_onlist" value="http://oneyearplan.net/snyhof/redirect.php"><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
function getTracking() {
var metas = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
var i;
for (i = 0; i < metas.length; i++)
if (metas.getAttribute('name') == "tracking")
break;
var getVar = metas.getAttribute('content');
//alert(getVar);
return getVar;}
var t = getTracking();
//var t = "";
//urlquery=location.href.split("t=");
//if(urlquery[1]) {
// urlterms=urlquery[1].split("&");
// t = urlterms[0];
document.writeln('<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" value="', t, '">');
document.writeln('<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="custom t" value="', t, '">');document.write('<scr'+'ipt language="JavaScript" src="http://oneyearplan.net/snyhof/zmaster/Scripts/visit.js.php?id=10113&t='+t+'"></scr'+'ipt>');
document.write('<scr'+'ipt language="JavaScript">\ndocument.writeln(\'<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="custom Tracking" value="?v=\'+visit_id+\'">\');document.writeln(\'<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="custom v" value="\'+visit_id+\'">\');\n</scr'+'ipt>');
</script>
<input type="hidden" name="custom member_id" value="10113">
<input type="hidden" name="custom landingpage" value="Custom">
<input type="hidden" name="meta_message" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="meta_required" value="name,from">
<input type="hidden" name="meta_forward_vars" value="1">
<!--<input type="hidden" name="meta_adtracking" id="meta_adtracking" value="">--><table width="266" align=center>
<tr><td align=right><font color="green"><b>First Name:</b></font></td><td>
<input type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"></td></tr>
<tr><td align=right><font color="green"><b>Email:</b></font></td><td>
<input type="text" name="from" value="" size="20"></td></tr>
<tr><td align=right><font color="green"><b>Phone</b> (optional):</font></td><td>
<input type="text" name="phone" value="" size="20"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><div align="center">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</div></td></tr>
</table>
</form>
<!--END FORM CODE --></td>
<td><img src="../../../themes/site/images/blank.gif" width="50" height="1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
</table> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table></body>
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
24 October 2009 at 8:29pm
I can spot a stack of logic and programming errors, as well as general implementation problems just by looking at the code quickly. For example:
for (i = 0; i < metas.length; i++)
if (metas.getAttribute('name') == "tracking")
break;doesn't actually perform any sort of loop. I would recommend that you spend time learning how to solve your own problems and how to program so you can spot and fix issues like these.
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
25 October 2009 at 3:38am Last edited: 26 October 2009 7:56am
I'm sure people like me upset true programmers, but I am 47 now, started programming a CAD program in AutoLISP, and other programming for the past years. I'm sick of it! That is why I asked to hire someone. No one seems to be available to program in SS on elance.com. You seem to know where I am failing, yet are not offering me your services.
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
25 October 2009 at 11:25am Last edited: 25 October 2009 11:26am
I'm sorry if I came off sounding a bit snobbish or condescending , but to be honest it is difficult to program complex custom websites (that are reliable) without a significant investment in learning time.
To this end it sounds like your going in the right direction in trying to get someone else to contract out to. Since you're not having much luck with finding anyone on that freelance website, you might want to try the "Connect With Other SilverStripe Members" forum on this site. There's a few people advertising their services there. You might also have luck hiring the SilverStripe guys, or one of their official partners (which you can find on the company website). You could also hop on the IRC channel to see if anyone is available.
As for how to specifically fix that simple problem, the JS should probably read like (note I haven't tested this).
for (i = 0; i < metas.length; i++) {
if(metas[ i ].getAttribute('name') == 'tracking') return metas[ i ].getAttribute('value');
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Re: Google adwords tracking and Silverstripe
26 October 2009 at 7:57am
Thank you Andrew, I appreciate your comments. I will take your advise into account and see who might be available.
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