I am trying to create a link in a PHP generated e-mail to the UPS tracking page. The form on their page for submitting the tracking numbers works like this:
<form action="http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="trackNums" value="'.$returnIn->getOutgoingTrackingNumber().'"/>
<input type="submit" name="track.x" value="'.$returnIn->getOutgoingTrackingNumber().'" class="linkButton"/>
</form>
And if I replicate this on my own site it works fine :)
The problem is if I want to put this in an e-mail... Outlook won't handle forms so I created a link to a redirect page hosted on our webserver like this:
TRACKINGNUMBER
Now on the email_tracking_link page I need to submit this form AND FORWARD THE USER to the page. I can submit the form using cURL or file_get_contents, but this then renders the page within my own site, without any of the CSS styling etc on the UPS page. My code currently looks like this:
if (isset($_GET['ups']))
{
$url = 'http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track';
$data = array('trackNums' => $_GET['ups'], 'track.x' => $_GET['ups']);
// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data),
),
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
}
If I render the form and have the user click the button, then they are forwarded to the UPS page, complete with it's CSS etc. I want this to happen without the user having to click the button...
How can I replicate this behaviour programmatically?
Related
I have following code:
return array(
ULogt::UPDATE => '
<div>
Navigate
</div>
'
This code locates in the class called links.php.
I need to navigate to ('viewform', array('model'=>$this->loadJson($id)), when the user presses Navigate button. I do not know how to insert this code instead of #link. How can I do it?
CHtml::link(
"Navigate",
"javascript:void(0);", // link for destination or you can handle same with jQuery
array(
'id' => 'navigation-id', // id for handeling in jQuery
'key' => $data, // Required data will be appeared as attributes for this link
)
);
You can create link like
Yii::app()->createUrl(
'/profile/membership/view', // your link
array(
'id'=> 1 // data to be sent
)
)
Check for URL formating
I've got two different remote forms which I need to submit data to. The first one is an http form, and it works just fine. Submit > redirect to result page > return response as variable.
The second one lives on an https page, and it just doesn't work, no matter what I try. So here's what I'm working with:
First form's form tag
<form method="post" name="entry_form" action="a_relative_page.asp?start=1">
Second form's form tag
<form method="post" novalidate enctype="multipart/form-data" action="https://asubdomain.formstack.com/forms/index.php" class="stuff" id="stuff1234567890">
Both buttons are completely unremarkable, with no fancy javascript, and look essentially like
<input type="submit">
And here's the PHP cURL request
$post_data = http_build_query(
array(
'lots_of' => 'values_here'
)
);
$url = 'https://asubdomain.formstack.com/forms/a_page_with_form';
$ch = curl_init($url);
$opts = array(
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE,
CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH => TRUE,
CURLOPT_VERBOSE => TRUE,
// Above options for debugging because I'm desperate
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,
CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post_data
);
curl_setopt_array($ch, $opts);
//Capture result and close connection
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$debug = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
There's nothing out of the ordinary in curl_getinfo except the expected ["ssl_verify_result"]=> int(0), which I'm ignoring for debugging.
HTTP code is 200. If I echo $result, I can see that all form values are filled out, but the form never submitted and thus never redirected. If I then CLICK on submit, the form submits without issue and redirects as expected.
Again, this is not a problem with the first form, only the second. I'm guessing there's something about the underlying code on formstack that prevents cURL POST from submitting the form, but I can't seem to find it.
EDIT: I found the problem. There are two invisible elements on formstack forms. One of them is an input field called _submit which must be set to 1. The other is the form identifier, which is an integer.
Google Analytics, by just placing its sourcecode on my website, automatically tracks everything I used to need (pageviews, unique visitors).
But now, I need to track events, and the only way to do this is to do it server-side. Each time any users does an specific action i need to track, the server posts data to google to track the information, as explained here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/devguide#event
And it does works amazingly perfect, but, since I realiced, I am now receiving a LOT of visits from Spain, doubling the visits from USA. And before I implemented the event tracking, Spain wasn't even part of the top 10 countries.
Today I have realiced that my servers are in Spain, and that may be causing the issue.
How can I track the event, without making it count as a pageview?
$url = 'http://www.google-analytics.com/collect';
$data = array('v' => '1', 'tid' => 'UA-HIDDEN-1', 'cid' => $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"], 'ni' => '1', 't' => 'event', 'ec' => '', 'ea' => 'JUMP', 'el' => '');
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data),
),
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
Thank you very much!!
You are sending the IP adress as a client id, which is wrong. For one, the client id is supposed to be an UUID. Secondly, Analytics won't recognize that these events belong to an existing user.
You'd need to grab the existing client id for an existing user on the web page:
ga(function(tracker) {
var clientId = tracker.get('clientId');
});
and then send it back to the server and use it in your request (1). At the moment GA cannot assign correct geo information since the events do not belong to the session of the user who initiates the event (this quite possibly affects some other metrics, too).
(1) You might as well read the GA cookie in PHP, but Google recommends against it since the cookie format might change without notice. The script above will always return a correct client id even if the cookie format changes.
Updated: I have read a bit more documentation and while my answer seems still somewhat relevant it's probably wrong for the actual use case - Geo is determined by IP and the serverside script will still send the servers IP. So quite possibly (haven't done the science yet) this would look like one visitor with two devices instead of a single visitor.
Update 2: Apparently it is now possible to include the users IP adress as parameter, so this answer is possibly no longer relevant.
Here is a techopad presentation about mixing UA client- and serverside, maybe that helps.
An event in and of itself is not a pageview. See: Event Tracking
Is there a specific reason why you need to track events server side and pageviews from the normal ga.js client-side code?
You can easily track events from the client side, if you were unaware of that:
Click Link to Track Event
Assuming that you needed to keep events AND pageviews on the server side:
<?php
//Put SERVER_ADDR into a var
$request_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
// Put any server IPs you need to filter out below in an array
$localhosts = array('127.0.0.1','192.168.15.1','10.1.10.1');
// Use this later
$url = 'http://www.google-analytics.com/collect';
Now, Figure out what to do with the REMOTE_ADDR check if its in our list above. then build an array of type to send GA (events, pageviews)
$actions = array();
// Note that the values are arbitrary and will let you do what you need.
if(in_array($request_ip)){
//Only track event, or track pageview differently, or track two events.
$handle_myServer = true;
$actions = ('event');
} else {
// Track everyone else
$handle_myServer = false;
$actions = ('event','pageview','mySpecialPageview','mySpecialEvent');
}
Finally We have built a list of events we can use in flow control with existing code for pageviews, user timing, events, etc. Be creative!
foreach($actions as $action){
$data = null; $options=null;
if($handle_myServer){
$someFlagForGA = 'RequestFromSpainServer';
}
if($action == 'event'){
$data = array('v' => '1'
, 'tid' => 'UA-HIDDEN-1',
,'cid' => $request_ip
,'ni' => '1'
, 't' => 'event'
, 'ec' => $someFlagForGA,
,'ea' => 'JUMP', 'el' => ''
);
} elseif($action == 'pageview'){
$data = array('v' => '1', 'tid' => 'UA-HIDDEN-1'
, 't' => 'pageview'
, 'dh'=> 'yourGAenabledDomainHere.com'
, 'dp'=> 'ViewedPage.html'
, 'dt'=> 'homepage'.' SERVER VISITED '.$someFlagForGA
);
} else {
// Do whatever else
}
// Would be better to do below with a single function
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data),
) ,$data);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context) or die('Error!!');
}
?>
I have a project where I need to do the following: retrieve some data from a form, fill the database, create a response for the user and post the data to a third party. To give an example, it's like booking a ticket to a concert.The ajax call: You buy the ticket, you receive a response (whether the purchase was successful), a php script sends data to the database, and someone may be announced that a new ticket was bought. Now, I need to pass data to that "someone". Which is what I don't know how to do.
Or, like when someone posts a comment to my question on stackoverflow, I get a notification.
In my particular case, the user creates an event, receives a response and I will need to have certain parameters posted by the user on a calendar. It is important that I could hardly integrate the calendar with the script retrieving the data. I would rather need to "forward" the data to the calendar- quite like pushing notifications.
Can anyone please give me a clue what should I use, or what should I need in order to do the above?
The process will go like this:
AJAX
user----> php script->database
|_ calendar
So if i get you right, you could post your data to the calendar via curl:
$url = "http://www.your-url-to-the-calendar.com";
$postData = array(
"prop1" => "value1",
"prop2" => "value2",
"prop3" => "value3"
);
//urlify the data for the post
$data_string = "";
foreach ($postData as $key => $value)
$data_string .= urlencode($key) . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
$data_string = rtrim($data_string, '&');
//will output --> prop1=value1&prop2=value2=prop3=value3
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
CURLOPT_POST => count($postData),
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data_string
));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
If your third party calendar does not require authentication than this would be the best way to post it, if you can not write to the database yourself.
When it requires authentication you would have to first login via curl (send credentials via curl-post, receive cookies, send cookies with your data)
Hope this helps.
Greetings
Here's what's up:
I'm working on an app where the user or a page they administrate is tagged in their own image, however, tagging a page they administrate doesn't function, I have no trouble with the user being tagged.
Here's some code:
$tdata = array('tag_uid' => $fb_id,'x' => 0,'y' => 0);
$datatags[] = $tdata;
$attachment = array(
'access_token' => $access_token,
'tags' => $datatags
);
$attachment['image'] = '#'.realpath($image_name.);
$result = $facebook->api('/'.$album_id.'/photos', 'POST', $attachment);
$fb_id is either the ID for the user or the page. which is grabbed using /me/accounts in the Graph API
Thanks!
Per the documentation you cannot do this:
You can specify which user to tag using two methods: in the URL path
as PHOTO_ID/tags/USER_ID, or in a URL parameter as
PHOTO_ID/tags?to=USER_ID. Currently, you cannot tag a Page in a photo
using this API.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/photo/