I need to push offline transactions to Google Analytics.
I am thinking of creating a php script that queries the ecommerce database looking at transactions made in the last hour created from the backend. Having identified these transactions (and line items/SKU's).
How do I use PHP to push data to Google Analytics?
You need to go though the measurement protocol. There is no client library to help you do this in PHP you will have to code it yourself. That being said its not that hard its just a normal HTTP Post or HTTP Get request. The trick is building up your requests correctly.
A couple of quick tips.
Qt stands for que time and will allow you to set the time that the hit arrived on your server. Note it must not be greater than four hours ago.
While you are testing this you can use the debug endpoint to validate your hits. The hits wont be sent to Google but it will tell you if they are valid or not.
Measurement Protocols as #DaImTo mentioned is the answer. make a try here replacing the UA Id -
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/hit-builder/?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXX-Y&cid=555&t=transaction&ti=12345&ta=westernWear&tr=50.00&ts=32.00&tt=12.00&cu=EUR
You can use DIv tool to validate all your post requests.
(dont forget to enable - ecommerce from view settings in GA when testing on new account)
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I want to build a simple Software-as-a-service web application that performs web scraping - the result per execution will be a table of results with several rows and columns. For the front-end, I wanted to build the website using WordPress since I am familiar with making basic websites there and like the plugins available. For the backend I plan on using AWS Lambda to perform the task serverless-ly. The user will log in to the site, then when they want to use the service will enter some keywords via a form, and that will send HTTP request to AWS API Gateway, which is connected to my Lambda function. Currently, the AWS Lambda function writes results into AWS DynamoDB as it goes - perhaps I need to write a second HTTP request method to query the results, or return the results in the same method that scrapes them instead.
Even after hours of googling, there are several areas in which I am unsure how to proceed, or if I have chosen the right path (I have no prior experience in this area.) Two of the biggest puzzles I have currently though are:
How can I use WordPress to send data to AWS API Gateway? Do I need to write some PHP code and if so what does it look like and where should I put it?
How can I present the results on WordPress site for the user? Should I keep the results saved on DynamoDB and query them when I want to present them, or should I store the results on the WordPress database? Ideally they would see a big table and have options to export to CSV, for example.
Thanks for your help and patience.
Cheers,
jack
There are a couple of possible ways this can be accomplished. One way is to just use webhooks. Most form plugins come with the option to use webhooks and doing it this way is pretty straightforward. Here is an article from WPForms on how to configure it WPForms and Webhooks. Below is an example of how I have used it. The example shows a form that sends data to AWS API Gateway which triggers AWS StepFunctions and also puts the customer information in DynamoDB
WPForms Webhook to AWS API Gateway
I`m working on application which prviding clients to use calendar and creating some events there (I mean calendar in my app). Some of clients are have more than 1000 events in calendar and I want to start using Google Calendar . But I cant find any way to send multiple events in Google Calendar by 1 request.
Question: Is it possible to send few events in 1 request by using php-sdk, which google provides or by any other way such a http request?
Upd: I saw batch requests in google calendar docs, but Im not sure that its working now and how do I need to use it
Thanks!
The method you would be using is events.insert this method Creates an event as in singular there is no way to send a request that would send more than one.
You could use batching but all batching really is is sending X number of event.inserts in a single batch request. Its not going to save you on quota the quota cost will be the same the only thing it will save you on is on the number of HTTP calls you are making.
Global HTTP Batch Endpoints (www.googleapis.com/batch) will cease to work on August 12, 2020 as announced on the Google Developers blog. For instructions on transitioning services to use API-specific HTTP Batch Endpoints (www.googleapis.com/batch/api/version), refer to the blog post.
The above statment does not mean that batching doesnt work. It just means that the old batching endpoint which worled for every API no longer works now you need to send batching requests to each api
www.googleapis.com/batch/drive/v3
www.googleapis.com/batch/calendar/v3
you used to be able to send all batching requests no matter what api you were working with to
www.googleapis.com/batch
That no longer works.
I am interested in writing some basic php to interface with the Poloniex push api.
Their website provides the following info:
https://poloniex.com/support/api/
A php wrapper can be found here:
http://pastebin.com/iuezwGRZ
From what i can determine there are three APIs being push, public and trading. The public and trading APIs provide functions that can be passed parameters etc. The push api stumps me totally as i cannot determine how it works.
The first link above states the API pushes live data and different feeds can be subscribed to.
My questions are:
A) How can php receive a live stream of data?
B) How do i subscribe to a feed?
I may have misunderstood the oush api and my apologies in advance if this is the case.
Edit1:
I believe i need a WAMP client to connect to a WAMP router such as Minion.
https://github.com/Vinelab/minion
Edit2:
Node.js example
http://pastebin.com/dMX7mZE0
The push API is based on Websocket protocol.
Initially you need first to make a connection to the websocket server,
after that you need to register to a data stream (price update stream for example), after that as soon as the server make an update to something (a price ), all connected clients who where previously registred to it will synchronously received the updated price
Finally you got the last price without the need of doublecheck at regular interval if the price has changed
I am integrating the Twitch user account API into my platform and had a look through the API to see if there was a callback section of some sort to send an update to my server when a user starts streaming, but I can't seem to find any reference for one.
Is there currently any services that offer this sort of thing? If not, what would be the best way of running regular checks on all of my users in my Database to see when they are streaming, of course doing this alone would kill the server with database queries, so I'm stuck as to where to go now.
What I am looking to do is receive a callback and then create a post in a social feed that the user has started streaming.
Based on the discussions at the links below, the API doesn't support webhooks and won't anytime soon. Instead, they expect you to use polling. Basically you would set up a worker process that makes requests periodically, such as every five minutes, then creates appropriate social feed posts, etc. You can batch them together if you have a bunch of channels to check (exaple from from the github issue):
https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/streams?channel=riotgames,dota2ti,machinima,esltv_hearthstone
https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/issues/211
https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/notifications-using-twitch-api-and-php/1009
I want to add an additional functionality to a CMS I am making that will allow users to add content to a site via text message. The user should be able to upload an image and add text and send the message to a number which when received will update the database accordingly.
Can this be done, and can it be done via PHP because that's the only language I know? Also what would be the general outline to achieve such a thing?
You have to find a SMS gateway that supports "incoming" of SMS. Click-a-tell is generally the one people choose because of their API and documentation, they aren't free though. If you do a quick Google search for "SMS Gateway" you'll find plenty of other solutions.
Once you choose the gateway you want to go with, the rest of the process is easy. You would just handle the SMS as a regular request into your application.
Hope that helps you get started!
Use one of the many SMS gateways out there like Twilio (whom I work for, but loved before I was an employee) which has a really simple API and great documentation. There are tons of PHP examples. When you receive a message, a simple POST request is made to a URL you specify with parameters for To, From and Body. Also if you return text from the URLs you use to receive messages you can respond back to them. You can also initiate outbound SMS from the same number using the REST API.
Twilio does not currently support MMS (needed for your image uploading requirement) and is not free, but you only pay for what you use at $.01 per message.
Completing the answer by Raphael Caixeta, I recommend that you use the standalone PHP binary to run a pre-determined script, which parameters you'll get from the SMS/MMS. This way you can separate the two process:
1) Make a script and test it by running it through the command line.
2) Implement the SMS/MMS receiver software so that it parses the messages and runs the first script with custom parameters.
You can use a GSM/3G modem (or dongle) to receive SMS messages. And this sms software can read those messages from the modem in real time and put them automatically in your database.