Example plugin to log (store), archive, retrieve, and display custom data

[vipsoft]

UPDATE

See ticket #1436 - which allows to track additional information about community users. It generates reports about:

• usertype (user/guest) including evolution
• users age-group
• evolution of average age
• gender (male, female, unknown) including evolution
• user activity (list of the most active user)

[matt]

vipsoft, this has indeed be one of the most asked questions. If you are keen to start on this, I can help you with dev.

[matt]

Also, explain how to use the Updates in the plugin (ie. create a Updates/X.php where X is the version of the plugin upgraded to, that can contain php code and sql queries)

[abowman]

It would be very helpful if you could just let us know which hook to use and what array the custom data is stored in. Thanks

[Telogis]

You can use "Tracker.Action.record". Here is some code from a plugin we made recently:

function getListHooksRegistered()
{
	return array(
		'Tracker.Action.record' => 'newAction',
	);
}

function newAction($action) {
	try {
		// This fills the $visitor_id variable with Piwik's visitor ID. There are also other variables which you can get access to, just print_r($action);
		$visitor_id = $action->_notificationInfo['idVisit'];
		$data = $action->_notificationObject->getRequest();
		$data = json_decode(stripslashes($data['data']));
	} catch (Exception $e) {
		return false;
	}
	// Can now access custom variables through $data->*, like so:
	$my_custom_variable = $data->my_var;
}

Hope this helps someone.

[matt]

I'm tempted to mark this as fixed, considering the very nice plugin in: #1436

[vipsoft]

Agree!

[vipsoft]

(In [2420]) fixes #1457 - remove E_EXCEPTION (couldn't find any documentation for this as a predefined PHP constant)

refs #998 - merge upgrade.php and common.php so json_decode() is available to Tracker plugins; sync up with -17 release of upgradephp