I just switched over to Piwik and I am trying to track links in info windows of google maps on my site. The links are generated by js and php/mysql . I tried putting class=“piwik_link” in the urls in my database but that does not work. Any suggestions on how to track those links. Here is one of my pages www.conneroutdoors.com/hunting/alabama.html, thanks in advance for your help, Pete
In http://piwik.org/docs/javascript-tracking/
Check out the section: Force a click on a link to be recorded as an outlink in Piwik
I have tried putting the class=piwik_link" into the urls I want to track, but I can not get them to work. when I check them with firebug there is no call to piwik when I click on these links.
I recommend to use
trackLink( url, linkType, customData )- Manually log a click from your own code. url is the URL clicked. linkType can either be ‘link’ for an outlink or ‘download’ for a download.
Thanks Matthieu,
I can get the trackLink( url, linkType, customData ) to work using a onclick event in the url, onclick=“piwikTracker.trackLink( url, linkType, customData );” but it only groups all the outlinks under URL. is there a way to use the actual url for each one instead. Like the other links get listed. I know I could do it manually for each link, but I have over 2000 links to track.
outlinks are grouped by URL but you can click on the row to see the full list of outlinks for this domain ?
Thanks again, I get nothing like that. I must be doing something wrong. (javascript is not my strong point) All I get under outlinks for the links I use onclick=“piwikTracker.trackLink( ‘url’, ‘link’, ‘customData’ );” on is one listing titled URL and the clicks for each link get counted under unique clicks, there is not a separate list of the actual urls of the links. I will post a screen shot when I can get back into Piwik. Having problems with new upgrade.
Here is a screen shot of what I get .
[attachment=1831:sceenshot_piwik.jpg]
url should be a variable or object property, eg theElementYouClickedOn.href, not the literal string ‘URL’.
customdata is optional; it’s typically a variable.
I understand that if I use a variable like “Outfitter_name” and use a different name for each link it would work. But I have over 1600 links I need to track and the time needed to insert a different name into each is prohibitive. I just don’t know enough javascript to write a code that would take the actual url and insert it as the variable. Thanks for all your help. Pete
Have you tried enableLinkTracking() ?
yes, but it won’t track the links that are in the infowindows, they are from pulled from a database and displayed in the popup infowindows from google maps. other than that it tracks all my other links. you can see what i mean here www.conneroutdoors.com/hunting/alaska.html just click on any marker and you will see the links I am referring to.
Sorry…I had to chase my toddler out of my office.
You may have to defer the call to enableLinkTracking() until after the map loads.
sorry, but I was just able to log back in, I tried to defer the script but it still doesn’t work. and IE did not like that at all, page would not load.
In alaska.js, I see:
function bindInfoWindow(marker, map, infoWindow, html) {
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function() {
infoWindow.setContent(html);
infoWindow.open(map, marker);
});
}
Why can’t you add a trackLink() call within this click handler?
Like I said earlier I am not that good at javascript, and I am not sure how or where to define that call. is there an example somewhere I could see.
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