Google Analytics will scan your site immediately and look for this stuff and it found nothing.

Don't waste your time.

We followed every step here and the Mambot still did not work for us, even with a properly configured PHP5.2.3 install. So, we re-wrote it to PHP4 and it is now working.

I've shared the modified code we created with the developer via info (at) holyfieldstudios.com (since their joomla (at) holyfieldstudios.com email bounces, and I can't post HTML here) for anyone else experiencing these problems -- hopefully he will post this alternate PHP4 version on his site. I realize that PHP4 is nearing EOL, but many of us still have to live with it.. and PHP5 was not a solution here, at least in our case.

Thanks to the developer for writing this, and hopefully this modded PHP4 version will make the bot more useful for a greater array of people.

Originally I had been using the Analytics mambot from JoomlaFrance and although it did work I noticed that it was only logging around 10% of my actual site's visitor traffic. I then realised that it was a content mambot and was therefore only being included standard article content pages of the site.

I've now switched to this Google Analytics Bridge mambot because it is a system mambot and so should now be included on all pages of the site, not just content pages, and so every page visited should be logged.

I've only just added it to my site so I need to wait a few days to see if a truer representation of my site's visitor rates are now being logged, but as it is a system bot it should do a much better job than the bot I used to use.

I had no issues installing this Mambot on a Joomla 1.0.12 based site. It just installed without an problem. It is also easy to setup, just requiring publishing of the Mambot and entering you ID. And that is it.

For those who cannot get this mambot to work, as the author mentioned it requires PHP5 to be running on your server. I have this running and so had no issues. If your server is still stuck running PHP4 then please don't blame the author of this mambot. It works perfectly, but only with PHP5.

It works, and as stated for php5.

However my site is in a hosting environment that has both php 4 + 5, yet it defaults to 4.

My workaround was to download the plugin, edit the xml file from:
bot_google_analytics.php
to:
bot_google_analytics.php5

And re-named the file to reflect the '.php5' extension, as the hosting will run these extensions with php5.
It worked for me, might work for you.
Either way, now my site isn't broken, and I don't have to go change .htaccess files to default everything to php5.
Script works, but I strongly recommend attempting to re-write to make it php4 compatible.

Owner's reply:
Thank you for helpful response!



The PHP Group has made the PHP 4 end of life announcement.



Today it is three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.



The PHP development team announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4.



So there is no mean to develop PHP4 version at all any more.

Works fine!

Tracks all pages of Joomla CMS including 3rd party components.

I have tried several modules, but all these are complicated, especially if you have more than one site to administrate. Installation of Google Analytics Bridge is very easy. No any hack required for templates or Joomla core files. Install, configure and forget. Just enjoy Google statistics.

This bot does not work.

It has a registration requirement, but no hints anywhere on how to register it.

It causes your page to come up blank.

Do not install this component!

Owner's reply:
Hello!

Please read post above. There are answers for your questions too.





There are only few reasons to encounter problems with “Google Analytics Bridge”:



• Your server doesn’t fulfill minimum requirements for GAB (PHP5!!!)

• Joomla template that you are using with GAB does not comply with Joomla template standards (Please note mosShowHead() command )

• You have poorly configured GAB (missing Google ID, plugin not published)



Please visit http://www.raamimeister.ee/ for live demo.

What's with the Registration and Serial Key requested on the mambot page? The plugin does not work and I am guessing that it is because it needs these two elements. However, the homepage doesn't offer advice on how to obtain them.

Owner's reply:
Registration and Serial Key are not required fields. We have commercial version too with some hacks and extras. So these fields are required for commercial version only.



Probably your server does not support PHP5? Please note that Google Analytics Bridge requires at least PHP5 enabled web server. We are not using PHP4 for development anymore, so there is no PHP4 version available. As PHP5 is our development platform for PHP, we don’t spent time for PHP4. Google Analytics Bridge is provided as is. We are not non-profit organization, who develops software for free for everyone. But if we have some useful piece of soft to give away for free, we distribute it as is.



We have tested and using Google Analytics Bridge on several domains with great success, so we believe that you shall check your server configuration. Sometimes there are different configurations on servers, so the script might behave different way on your server. For example you’re your server maybe you miss some server on environment variables, server constants or so else.