A quick and dirty trick to force Excel (hopefully you are using OpenOffice) to display the full zipcode, we wrap it in double quotes and put an equal sign in front of it, to force it to be a string like this:

$zipcode = 00123;
 
$data = '="' . $zipcode . '"' ;

So if you are doing the straight query to CSV export, using the fputcsv function it would look something like this. Basically just overwrite the value in the row and then continue along.

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
 
	$row['zipcode'] = '="'.$row['zipcode'].'"';
 
	fputcsv($output, $row);
}

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So here in this classic newbie mistake, grooming a phone number by casting it to an integer.

$phone = '6195551234';
 
echo (int) $phone;

Will result in 2147483647.

You also see 2147483647 sometimes in database records where the field type is INT and the value you are inserting is greater than 2147483647. Hope this helps!

So the first step is to schedule the report. For this simple example we will use the default Visitors Report. So login to your Google Analytics account, click Visitors on the main left nav, then click the Email icon up at the top of the report, see screenshot below:

Google Analytics Screenshot

Now let’s get to the code. First step is to connect to your POP mail server and get the new messages. Don’t forget to download the latest version of Zend at http://framework.zend.com.

include ('Zend/Mail/Storage/Pop3.php');
 
$params = array('host' => "mail.domain.com", 'user' => "info@domain.com", 'password' => "secret");
 
$mail = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Pop3($params);
 
$num = $mail->countMessages();

In a production environment, you would want some logic to verify that the number of messages is greater than 0, loop through the messages, etc but for this tutorial I have omitted these items for brevity. So next we need to download the first message and get its parts.

$message = $mail->getMessage(1);
 
$parts = $message->countParts();

Next we spin through the parts, looking for the attachment.

for($b=1; $b<=$parts; $b++){
 
	$part = $message->getPart($b);
 
	$headers = $part->getHeaders();
 
	if (!empty($headers['Content-Disposition']) || !empty($headers['content-disposition'])){

Then we parse the CSV file to an array for simple looping:

$csv = base64_decode($part->getContent());
 
$lines = explode("\n",$csv);
 
$data = array();
 
foreach ($lines as $line){
 
	$data[] = explode(',',$line);					
 
}

The previous code checks the email account, downloads the CSV attachment and parses it to an array. That is all going to stay the same but the matching below will change depending on your needs. For this simplistic example, I am going to get the number of visits from yesterday.

$yesterday = date('F j',mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d')-1, date('Y')));
 
foreach ($data as $row){
 
	if ($row[0] == '"'.$yesterday){
 
		$visits = $row[2];
 
		echo "VISITS: {$visits}";
 
	}
 
}

So that’s basically it. Of course in production you would probably want to write the Google Analytics data to a database or whatever, but you get the point! Hopefully Google Analytics will get an API soon, but until then, this works like a champ!

I created a simple javascript function that will include the tracking pixel as an iframe in the current page. All you have to do is change the url to the tracking pixel and then call the conversion function from your page or flash file.

function conversion() {
 
	var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
 
	iframe.style.width = '0px';
 
	iframe.style.height = '0px'; 
 
	document.body.appendChild(iframe); 
 
	iframe.src = 'http://wwww.domain.com/pixel.html';
 
};

Let’s look at the first scenario where someone completes a lead form. Often forms submit to themselves, so you can’t have the goal conversion on the thank you page because it is the same url. These type of dynamic pages can easily fire off goals we just have to do it a different way. When the form is completed successfully, we just make a javascript call in the onload. Notice the /goal/rfi/ from the Goal URL setup.

<body onload="pageTracker._trackPageview('/goal/rfi/');">

So what if you want to track an exit click or a non-html file download (Ex: PDF Brochure). The idea is the same, you simply call the function from the onclick event handler.

<a href="PrettyBrochure.pdf" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/goal/rfi/');">

Be sure that you have the New Tracking Code (ga.js) not the Legacy Tracking Code (urchin.js)

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/webstatmng –calculate-rotated-statistics –stat-prog=webalizer –domain-name=bradino.com

I am sure that this is different for every system, but this worked for me running Plesk 8.1 on Linux.

[html]

Logging into Application…

[/html]

Warning: This is not secure, as the password is stored in plain-text and is accessible to anyone with access to your computer. Please use with extreme caution.

$states = array('AL'=>"Alabama",  
  			'AK'=>"Alaska",  
			'AZ'=>"Arizona",  
			'AR'=>"Arkansas",  
			'CA'=>"California",  
			'CO'=>"Colorado",  
			'CT'=>"Connecticut",  
			'DE'=>"Delaware",  
			'DC'=>"District Of Columbia",  
			'FL'=>"Florida",  
			'GA'=>"Georgia",  
			'HI'=>"Hawaii",  
			'ID'=>"Idaho",  
			'IL'=>"Illinois",  
			'IN'=>"Indiana",  
			'IA'=>"Iowa",  
			'KS'=>"Kansas",  
			'KY'=>"Kentucky",  
			'LA'=>"Louisiana",  
			'ME'=>"Maine",  
			'MD'=>"Maryland",  
			'MA'=>"Massachusetts",  
			'MI'=>"Michigan",  
			'MN'=>"Minnesota",  
			'MS'=>"Mississippi",  
			'MO'=>"Missouri",  
			'MT'=>"Montana",
			'NE'=>"Nebraska",
			'NV'=>"Nevada",
			'NH'=>"New Hampshire",
			'NJ'=>"New Jersey",
			'NM'=>"New Mexico",
			'NY'=>"New York",
			'NC'=>"North Carolina",
			'ND'=>"North Dakota",
			'OH'=>"Ohio",  
			'OK'=>"Oklahoma",  
			'OR'=>"Oregon",  
			'PA'=>"Pennsylvania",
			'PR'=>"Puerto Rico",  
			'RI'=>"Rhode Island",  
			'SC'=>"South Carolina",  
			'SD'=>"South Dakota",
			'TN'=>"Tennessee",  
			'TX'=>"Texas",  
			'UT'=>"Utah",  
			'VT'=>"Vermont",  
			'VA'=>"Virginia",  
			'WA'=>"Washington",  
			'WV'=>"West Virginia",  
			'WI'=>"Wisconsin",  
			'WY'=>"Wyoming");

So a simple example to populate a dropdown form menu of states you could simply spin through the array like so:

 
foreach ($states as $code => $state){
 
     echo "<option value=\"{$code}\">{$state}</option>\n";
 
}