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Ubercart Variables List
Submitted by Insurrectus on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 00:05
Hello Ryan / Lyle / Anybody, I need these to be able to tag my site with Omniture web analytics. Thanks,
would be nice to know the structure of $items, $order, etc, "i know.." Any of those variables apply. Also, are you looking for something like the order object when an order is checked out? Specifically what I am looking for are the ubercart specific variables: -Purchase event (the variable that says Order Complete) Basically what needs to happen is certain javascript variables in my analytics code need to be populated with the ubercart values, see below for example of what I mean, I've used the Drupal $title variable to populate s.pageName. This is the function I'm using to populate s.pageName, just below <?phps.pageName=" Any help is greatly appreciated. Every order has an order ID, and when that order is loaded, most of the other data you're looking for gets filled in. In fact, anything related to orders or products on order will be there. Now, regarding when an order is purchased, that would be when hook_order() gets called with the submit $op. Regarding the message for items added to the cart... that's actually a Drupal message and it happens in the function uc_cart_add_item(). A lot of these event related ones just aren't variables, but you can hook into most of them using a custom module with the hooks we provide. I use Omniture as well for our analytics. I took the google analytics module and gutted it for Omniture. I like what you've done here for setting s.pagename and would like to fold it in to what I have. The cart markup task on this weeks agenda if you would like to collaborate on this? I know that you are primarily concerned with populating s.products right now, I'm not there yet. We will be running multiple report suites so I was playing with the admin settings. Here is what I identified as being settable: (again, expanding on Mikes work) Usage You will also need to define what user roles should be tracked. All pages will now have the required JavaScript added to the 'admin/' pages are automatically ignored by Omniture The following settings will be controllable from the admin: Track Download Links Check off extensions of Download File Types Enter Internal Filters Enter your campaign variable to tag SEO query links with: Enter your visitorNameSpace variable. Enter any plugins you will be using. Steve, We should interface with him as he has already done some work on this. Thanks for your input. I have posted a couple of issues with Greg's module and am working on it as well now. As of yet it doesn't do much more than insert the raw .js script tags into the footer of your pages. We still need to do a ubercart componant that will manage the stages of the cart. On pageview: s.events="prodView" and s.products=";$product_name ($model no)" On first add_to_cart: s.events="scOpen,scAdd" and s.products=";$product_name[0] ($model no),;$product_name[1] ($model_no)" On nth add_to_cart: s.events="scAdd" and s.products=";$product_name ($model no)),;$product_name[1] ($model_no)" on checkout: s.events="scCheckout" and s.products=";$product_name ($model no)),;$product_name[1] ($model_no)" on confirmation page: s.events="purchase" and s.products=";$product_name ($model no));$qty;$total_line_cost,;$product_name[1] ($model_no);$qty1;$total_line_cost1" In addition, we want to serialize the purchase event with something like: Does this all jive with your thinking on how the uc_omniture part should work? Jives! We also need to grab these at the checkout confirmation page An this for whenever someone clicks view cart Some of the items in your (Blessed_Steve) post like the scAdd and s.products could be trigged as an onclick event with the Add to cart button. Just food for thought. Insurrectus, Will it work for you if, for this first version we assume that when an item is added to the cart, the user is directed to the shopping cart page? furture versions would have to deal with the case where items are put in the cart but either displayed in a block or not fully acknowleged until view cart is pressed. I would like to avoid the complexity of direct server calls to omniture in this first version and stick will embedded js in html format. forcing the user to view the cart insures we can count every add to cart event without intermediate server calls. does this make sense? Steve How can I tell in my uc_sitecatalyst_add_to_cart hook if a customer is adding an item to a new shopping cart vs. an existing one? Steve, Clint Omniture has a plug-in called getCartOpen which identifies the first time a product is added to I'm checking in to it now to see if this will work. Clint I'll wait to hear back from you on the openCart question. meantime, I am wondering how to mark up the review your order page. it exists in the cart so we take over from Greggles still but Site Catalyst does not have a predefined event for this stage of the checkout process. Right now I am leaning toward appending "checkout review" to s.pagename Do you have anything better for this? Steve I think that you've got it right to just use the checkout review pagename. Also, in the checkout page have you setup an event to track how far through the panes a visitor has progressed? I was think that on each tab the same event could be used. For example: OPENCART FUNCTION (I don't know if it's what we need or not): // 30 minute timestamp +"if(s.c_r(c)||e.indexOf('scOpen')>-1){" // add scOpen if needed SET IN THIS MANNER: Hope this is helpful. Or we could just bypass the review order page all together. There has been some discussion about this here at Ubercart.org. How I look at the review order page is as just one more opportunity for a visitor to have buyers remorse and not buy! I don't know if the UberDudes are working on this option or not...Ryan, Lyle, any thoughts? Clint Just a quick update on where I am. I have a SiteCatalyst module that will do a rough markup of the ubercart process now... view cart through confirmation page. In order to get it integrated I started working with Greg more actively on the Drupal project. He is adding in a Site Catalyst variable update hook so that the main module will create the fully formed JS that gets embedded in a page. It will check with our Ubercart module to see about setting the success eVars, scAdd, scCheckout etc. prior to putting the code into the resulting page. Anyway he stuff is fully viewable, as you know, at the link posted above. I will get you a copy of my stuff as soon as I get it cleaned up a bit and the hook_eVars works. Steve End of day update. The Ubercart module is on hold while we work out a hook in greggles Drupal module that will allow the Ubercart module to update the cart specific variables in the overall markup. I'll post a link as soon as that is done. Have a good weekend. Hey Steve, Clint So I have a lot of plates spinning and managed to get distracted with other dev issues. Sorry to hold up the works here. Greggles setup this omniture module http://drupal.org/project/omniture which, based on the Google analytics module, inserts the omniture js into the footer of pages. I posted a patch which is under consideration with him. It will implemt a hook to allow modules to modify the eVars that are being sent to omniture. Having accomplished that, I created a uc_sitecatalyst module that specifically marks up the ubercart pages. You can get the omniture module at the link above.. be sure to snag the patchs since there is no "official" release of that module yet. Then you can grab my uc_sitecatalyst at: http://www.beyond-print.com/uc_sitecatalyst.tar.gz I have no doubt that it needs a lot more work, but I wanted to post it so that it can start gathering moss! Ubercat for President! The function call bug on line 79 has been fixed and the tarball has been updated. Steve, Suggestion 1 This way if a seller changes the product name they will not get duplicate products in their SiteCatalyst data. Example: Because the SKU is not likely to change and the product name is...it is recommended to only use the SKU. Suggestion 2 Suggestion 3 I'll look through the code some more this evening and see if I can find why the Order Complete page short circuits. Thanks for all your work. Clint Changed Line 128 to: $sproducts=';'.$node->model; Changed Line 146 to: $sproducts .= $product->model; Changed Line 153 to: $sproducts .= $product->model . ","; Changed Line 164 to: $sproducts .= $product->model . ";". Steve let me know if this makes sense. Cheers on the great work, Steve, just realized another issue: events=scAdd Once set, stays set...on view cart and checkout pages. hi, I just posed the question http://drupal.org/node/185835 at drupal asking where to manage the development process of the ubercart mod to the drupal omniture module. Not to repeat myself totally but issue tracker is setup over there for the overall module. It might make sense to move the discussion into that forum? I can post updates here? Ryan et. al. how would you ideally like to see contributors manage ongoing module discussions? Hey Steve... I'd say whatever works best for you. I'd like for folks to be able to find Ubercart.org who haven't heard of Drupal and be able to find info on all of Ubercart's capabilities, but that doesn't mean everything needs to be hosted here or only here. I'm considering posting some of our modules to Drupal.org simply to get more exposure in the modules list. Thanks Ryan. I didn't realize until after I posted that you have issue tracking for other contributions in your tracker. I'm just lazy that way apparently. Anyway, I am thinking that it makes sense for the ubercart spawn to live here and the parent module at Drupal.org to point to it. That is cleaner and lends itself to other efforts branching.. osCom and ZenC for instance, neither of which I would be trying to maintain. Still, I'll see what Greggles comes back with in that thread before committing. I've def got other work to do! Steve, foreach($SiteCat_Vars as $SCvar => $SCval) { Needs to be: foreach($SiteCat_Vars as $SCvar => $SCval) {
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