Google Analytics API: getting specific data using php

Question

I managed to get some data using:

$ga->requestReportData(44030755,array('pagePath'),array('pageviews','uniquePageviews')); and iterating over it using foreach.

Here's what came back:

  object(gapiReportEntry)[7] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '// ?@faktanyaadalah =' (length=19) object(gapiReportEntry)[12] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '//?facebookwww-static/assets/images/highlight.png=' (length=50) object(gapiReportEntry)[8] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '//?faktanyaadalah=&fb_xd_fragment=' (length=34) object(gapiReportEntry)[13] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '//?faktanyadalah=' (length=17) object(gapiReportEntry)[15] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '//?uniqpost=&fb_xd_fragment=' (length=28) object(gapiReportEntry)[14] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/adamramadhan?offset=0' (length=22) object(gapiReportEntry)[16] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/adamramadhan?offset=2' (length=22) object(gapiReportEntry)[18] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/adamramadhan?offset=3' (length=22) object(gapiReportEntry)[19] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/adamramadhan?offset=4' (length=22) object(gapiReportEntry)[20] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/admin/blog?e=2' (length=15) object(gapiReportEntry)[21] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/admin/blog?e=4' (length=15) object(gapiReportEntry)[22] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/admin/blog?e=5' (length=15) object(gapiReportEntry)[23] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/blog?id=23' (length=11) object(gapiReportEntry)[24] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/gembelabis' (length=11) object(gapiReportEntry)[25] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/messages?id=7' (length=14) object(gapiReportEntry)[26] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/messages?id=9' (length=14) object(gapiReportEntry)[27] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/messages?mid=15' (length=16) object(gapiReportEntry)[28] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/messages?mid=17' (length=16) object(gapiReportEntry)[29] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/messages?mid=18' (length=16) object(gapiReportEntry)[30] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/product?id=16' (length=14) object(gapiReportEntry)[31] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/product?id=18' (length=14) object(gapiReportEntry)[32] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/product?id=2' (length=13) object(gapiReportEntry)[33] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/product?id=44' (length=14) object(gapiReportEntry)[34] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/products?tag=hosting' (length=21) object(gapiReportEntry)[35] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/verify/adamramadhan' (length=20) object(gapiReportEntry)[36] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 1 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/verify/uniqpost' (length=16) object(gapiReportEntry)[37] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 2 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '//?facebookwww-static/assets/images/highlight-1.png=' (length=52) object(gapiReportEntry)[38] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 2 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/LVUStore' (length=9) object(gapiReportEntry)[39] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 2 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/adamramadhan?offset=1' (length=22) object(gapiReportEntry)[40] private 'metrics' => array 'pageviews' => int 2 'uniquePageviews' => int 1 private 'dimensions' => array 'pagePath' => string '/product?id=22' (length=14) 

• How can I get pageviews and uniqpageviews only with a custom page path ? something like $eachdata->path('/LVUstore') ; returns an array of pageview 2, uniqpageview 1, etc.

• Are there any best practices? e.g. object caching, etc.

Thanks,

Answer 1

I think you are looking for filters. You can use the filter parameter to limit the result set. Google also says this is a good way to handle large data sets. That way, essentially, you can simply hook on one specific path you want with a filter, or you can grab them all and organize them accordingly.

 $path = "/path-goes-here"; /* * if you only want to get one path, use a filter: */ $filter = "pagePath == '$path'"; $ga->requestReportData(ga_profile_id,array('pagePath'), array('pageviews','uniquePageviews'),'',$filter); $result = $ga->getResults(); if (count($result)) { $result = array('pageviews' => $result[0]->getPageviews(), 'unique_pageviews' => $result[0]->getUniquePageviews() ); } print_r($result); /* * of if you want to get them all and then grab one specific: */ $ga->requestReportData(ga_profile_id,array('pagePath'),array('pageviews','uniquePageviews')); $results = array(); foreach($ga->getResults() as $result) { $results[$result->getPagePath()] = array('pageviews' => $result->getPageviews(), 'unique_pageviews' => $result->getUniquePageviews() ); } if(array_key_exists($path,$results)) { print_r($results[$path]); } 

Answer 2

this returns an array formed according to your desire (if I understood)

  function cleanTheData($what){ $ret = array(); foreach($what as $one){ $ret[$uno->dimensions['pagePath']] = array( 'pageviews' => $uno->metrics['pageviews'], 'uniquePageviews' => $uno->metrics['uniquePageviews'] ); } return $ret; } print_r(cleanTheData($initialArray))