README

Introduction

This plugin allows you to store Google Analytics events in cookie and push them to Data Layer in below structure:

dataLayer.push({
    'event': 'customEventName',
    'customEventName': {
        "event_category":"Users",
        "event_action":"login",
        "event_label":null,
        "value":0
    }
});

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require kiczek/ga-datalayer-cakephp3

In Controller load component using:

$this->loadComponent("DataLayer.DataLayer", [
    'cookieKey' => '_dl',
    'eventName' => 'customEventName',
    'blockName' => 'dataLayerEvents'
]);

At the end of your layout render Data Layer push script:

echo $this->fetch('dataLayerEvents');

Usage

Push event from Controller to Data Layer using:

$this->DataLayer->addEvent('Users', 'login');