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Google Analytics code messes up site

Thread began 11/03/2010 1:31 pm by elevy388997 | Last modified 7/10/2013 12:36 pm by doug425125 | 3240 views | 6 replies |

11/03/2010 1:31 pm | #1 elevy388997Beta Tester

Google Analytics code messes up site

Hello,

When I add the include_once code for google analytics tracking on a php page, it messes up my site. The formatting has to be off. It says to place this code after the <body> tag:

<?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?>

Whatever content was on my page gets replaced with this text:

Untitled Document </head>

11/04/2010 6:45 am | #2 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

sounds like there is an error in the analyticstracking.php file.

add the code at line 1 to turn error reporting on:

php:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors','on');

?>

11/05/2010 3:00 pm | #3 elevy388997Beta Tester

This is the code on the analyticstracking.php:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17837578-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.levy4u.com']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

</script>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

11/08/2010 8:29 am | #4 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

try changing the code to just the script tag:

<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17837578-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.levy4u.com']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

</script>

7/10/2013 10:33 am | #5 doug425125

Hi Jason

I was having the same problem. I placed the <?php include_once("analyticstracking.php") ?> code just before the </body> tag, and I was able to see and edit my Dreamweaver .php files. I'm not sure if this is the best place to put the code for tracking purposes? Is it acceptable to do this?

When you were referring to changing the code in your last response, were you suggesting removing everything except the script tag and contents? ( just for my clarification.. thanks

Doug

7/10/2013 11:55 am | #6 Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Originally Said By: doug425125

7/10/2013 12:36 pm | #7 doug425125

Thanks for clarifying Jason.. I removed all but the script, and kept it just after the body tag.. and it works perfectly. I understand now that it would have duplicated that various tags and become invalid HTML. I Appreciate the explanation.

Cheers,
Doug

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