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  1. POHow do I pass the current view name into my Google Analytics element?
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    copied!<p>I am setting up GA within a Cake multi-page ordering process. One requirement is, that the "_trackPageview" push should include a variable representing custom URL paths, depending on the current step of the process (i.e. <code>_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/dsl/shop/availability/$url_addendum']);</code>.</p> <p>I did set up the GA JS snippet as a Cake element google_analytics.ctp:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $gaCode = Configure::read('xxx.ga.tracking_code'); if (!isset($url_addendum)) $url_addendum = ''; if ($gaCode) { $googleAnalytics = &lt;&lt;&lt;EOD &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', '$gaCode']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/xxx/shop/availability/$url_addendum']); _gaq.push(['_gat._anonymizeIp']); _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'xxx']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); &lt;/script&gt; EOD; echo $googleAnalytics; } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>The order process is displayed utilizing a layout shop.ctp in which I added <code>echo $this-&gt;element('google_analytics');</code> into the header section. This is working fine of course.</p> <p>My problem now is, that I'd need to trigger _trackPageView with my custom $url_addendum parameter, seperately per view/step of the order process. But without producing duplicates of the page view and without calling the whole GA-element within the body of each view.</p> <p>So I guess the question is: Is there a way to leave the GA-element call in the head of the layout (where it should be naturally, imho) and call custom _trackPageviews without having to use _trackEvent instead ?</p> <p>Is there a way to pass the view name up to the layout in order to evoke a fitting call in the form of <code>echo $this-&gt;element('google_analytics', array('url_addendum' =&gt; 'currentview'));</code> ?</p>
 

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