Using Google Analytics

The Google Analytics API allows client applications to request data, saved in the analytics accounts.

See http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/v2/gdataOverview.html for more information about the Google Analytics API.

Retrieving account data

Using the account feed, you are able to retrieve a list of all the accounts available to a specified user.

$service = ZendGData\Analytics::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME;
$client = ZendGData\ClientLogin::getHttpClient($email, $password, $service);
$analytics = new ZendGData\Analytics($client);
$accounts = $analytics->getAccountFeed();

foreach ($accounts as $account) {
  echo "\n{$account->title}\n";
}

The $analytics->getAccountFeed() call, results in a ZendGData\Analytics\AccountFeed object that contains ZendGData\Analytics\AccountEntry objects. Each of this objects represent a google analytics account.

Retrieving report data

Besides the account feed, google offers a data feed, to retrieve report data using the Google Analytics API. To easily request for these reports, ZendGDataAnalytics offers a simple query construction interface. You can use all the metrics and dimensions specified by the API. Additionally you can apply some filters to retrieve some common data or even complex results.

$query = $service->newDataQuery()->setProfileId($profileId)
  ->addMetric(ZendGData\Analytics\DataQuery::METRIC_BOUNCES)
  ->addMetric(ZendGData\Analytics\DataQuery::METRIC_VISITS)
  ->addDimension(ZendGData\Analytics\DataQuery::DIMENSION_MEDIUM)
  ->addDimension(ZendGData\Analytics\DataQuery::DIMENSION_SOURCE)
  ->addFilter("ga:browser==Firefox")
  ->setStartDate('2011-05-01')
  ->setEndDate('2011-05-31')
  ->addSort(ZendGData\Analytics\DataQuery::METRIC_VISITS, true)
  ->addSort(ZendGData\Analytics\DataQuery::METRIC_BOUNCES, false)
  ->setMaxResults(50);

$result = $analytics->getDataFeed($query);
foreach ($result as $row) {
  echo $row->getMetric('ga:visits')."\t";
  echo $row->getValue('ga:bounces')."\n";
}