Ackee PHP

Ackee PHP is a PHP Class to simplify adding the JavaScript required to track visits with an Ackee tracking instance.

The goal is to bring server-side functionality to the output of the tracking script.

Initial Setup and Configuration

Required Constants

In a config file or before initating the class define the required constants which are used to generate the tracking script:

// Instance URL
define('ACKEE_INSTALL_URL', 'https://example.com');

// Domain ID for the site
define('ACKEE_DOMAIN_ID', '123456-abcde-12345-abcdefg-1234');

// Tracker ID, defaults to tracker.js but can be customized
define('ACKEE_TRACKER', 'tracker.js');

Optional Constants

The following constants are optional but provide advanced methods for handling requests:

ACKEE_DETAILED ( bool | string ):
Enable to collect the detailed data about the visitor.

If set to a string, the value of the constant becomes the name of a cookie. Before detailed tracking is enabled, the value of the cookie or boolean must return true. When set to a false value the detailed tracking setting is ignored.

// set to bool true to always use detailed
define('ACKEE_DETAILED', true);
//or
define('ACKEE_DETAILED', 'ackee_detailed_cookie');

ACKEE_OPT_OUT_COOKIE ( string ):
Name of the cookie to allow visitors to opt-out of all tracking.

Set the cookie to true to disable all tracking on the request.

define('ACKEE_OPT_OUT_COOKIE', 'ackee_opt_out_cookie');

ACKEE_DISABLE_DNT (bool):
Disable default Do Not Track (DNT) behavior.

By default, this class respects the visitor's DNT setting. If set to true, the visit is tracked regardless of the visitor's DNT setting.

define('ACKEE_DISABLE_DNT', true);

Initiate Ackee in your footer or where you want the script to appear

Once you have set the constants you can initiate tracking like this:

// include the class
require_once 'ackee.class.php';

//call the namespace
use Ackee\PHP\Core as ackee;

//ouput the tracker
(new ackee())->AckeeTracker();

You may also pass additional options into the dataOpts global. The contents of this array are JSON encoded and passed into data-ackee-opts. For example, if you wanted to ignore visitors from localhost add the following before AckeeTracker():

$dataOpts['ignoreLocalhost'] = 'true'

Changelog

1.0.0 2020-04-11

Initial release

License

Ackee PHP is a PHP Class to simplify adding the JavaScript
required to track visits with an Ackee Tracking Instance
Copyright (C) 2020 Brooke. ( https://brooke.codes/contact )

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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