okatsuralau/cakephp-mixpanel

CakePHP plugin providing easy integration with Mixpanel's analytics

v1.0.4 2017-05-10 21:06 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.6
• mixpanel/mixpanel-php: ^2.6

Requires (Dev)

• cakephp/cakephp: ^3.2
• phpunit/phpunit: ^6.1

MIT

• Gabriel Lau

• cakephp
• mixpanel

README

CakePHP Mixpanel Plugin

This plugin provides a Mixpanel component to track events from your controllers using the official Mixpanel PHP library.

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.6
• CakePHP >= 3.0

How to Install

composer require okatsuralau/cakephp-mixpanel@1.0.0

How to Use

Load the plugin in your config/bootstrap.php file:

Plugin::load('CakephpMixpanel');

Add the plugin configurations in your config/app.php or config/app_custom.php file:

return [
    //...
    
    'Mixpanel' => [
        'token' => YOUR_TOKEN_HERE
    ]
]

Load the component in your src/Controller/AppController.php

public function initialize()
{
    parent::initialize();

    $this->loadComponent('CakephpMixpanel.Mixpanel');
}

and (optionally) add the following code to your beforeFilter() method to identify the users actions

public function beforeFilter(\Cake\Event\Event $event)
{
    // if a user is logged in
    $this->Mixpanel->identify($user_id);
    $this->Mixpanel->name_tag($user_name);
    $this->Mixpanel->register($superProperties);
    
    /* To make use of the people API */
    $this->Mixpanel->people($this->Auth->user('id'), array(
        '$username' => $this->Auth->user('username'),
        '$email' => $this->Auth->user('email'),
        '$created' => $this->Auth->user('created'),
        '$last_login' => $this->Auth->user('connected'),
        'my_custom_var' => $my_custom_var,
    ));
    
    // ...
    
    parent::beforeFilter($event);
}

To register an event, put the following code in your controller action. src/Controller/PostController.php

public function index()
{
    // ...
    
    $this->Mixpanel->track(
        'Post list', 
        [
            'author' => $this->Auth->user('name'),
            'category' => 'Post',
        ]
    );
}

public function create()
{
    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
        
        // ...
        
        $this->Mixpanel->track(
            'Post Created', 
            [
                'author' => $this->Auth->user('name'),
                'category' => 'Post',
            ]
        );
        
        $this->redirect(array('action'=>'index'));
    }
}

This should be enough to start sending events to Mixpanel.

License

Copyright 2017 Gabriel Lau

Available for you to use under the MIT license. See: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT