Did you take the code from this http://www.vdgraaf.info/google-analytics-without-javascript.html and expanded it?

Anyways, I'll try it on my mobile site and will tell you the results in day.

I changed it a bit for tera-wurfl use. But looks like it's working...

Very interesting piece of code.

I've installed this on a test site. It's still not perfect for me, I need to debug a bit, but seems to be sending data to Google. I'll post more feedback here as I improve the script.

Very good tip.

I put it on mine and setup device filltering like this

Field A -> Extract A :User Defined: .*brand=(.*)&model=(.*)

Output to -> Constructor:Visitor Browser Program: $A1 / $A2

I still have to figure out how to transmit user IP address to google for geo location decoding.

Andrea, did you manage to do it?

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If you replace the last 3 lines in your code by these

if ((isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])))
$useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
else
$useragent = 'UNKNOWN_HTTP_USER_AGENT';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urchinUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

From now you can send the USER_AGENT from your manually-custom request to analytics.

Cheers.

Does the above method still work?

I've set up a Unit Test based on Peter v.d. Graaf's example that's not generating any Google Analytics data, although the HTTP request/response appears to work:

Get Google Analytics...

GA get request:

http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=1
&utmn=1259442976
&utmsr=-
&utmsc=-
&utmul=-
&utmje=0
&utmfl=-
&utmdt=-
&utmhn=tha.artlogic.com
&utmr=
&utmp=/scripts/TestAGoogleAnalyticsOriginalCode_html.php
&utmac=UA-4635840-1
&utmcc=__utma%3D35105132.1106525547.1213378550.1213378550.1213378550.2%3B%2B__utmb%3D35105132%3B%2B__utmc%3D35105132%3B%2B__utmz%3D35105132.1213378550.2.2.utmccn%3D(direct)%7Cutmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)%3B%2B__utmv%3D35105132.-%3B

GA get response: GIF89a

�����,

D
;

TestCase AGoogleAnalyticsOriginalCodeTestCase->testGoogleAnalytics() passed

are there any tricks to setting the cookie number so that google correctly recognizes user sessions?

GA is still not recognizing user sessions: i.e, each hit is seen as an Absolute Unique Visitor, so none of the Visitor Trending or site crawling stats make sense

here are the cookie values i'm sending, with a uniquely generated session id of: "73305051" in this case (my session management code also handles cookieless browsers):

&utmcc=__utma%3D73305051.1572483978.1215112280.1215112280.1215112280.2%3B%2B
__utmb%3D73305051%3B%2B__utmc%3D73305051%3B%2B__utmz%3D73305051.1215112280.2.2.
utmccn%3D(direct)%7Cutmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)%3B%2B__utmv%3D73305051.unit+test%3B

my mostly working code is a version of Ian Lewis' customization of Peter v.d. Graaf's example

in case it helps others, the tricks that got the USER_AGENT working for me were:

1) using CURL as above (thanks to 'dbl'):

// using curl()
$handle = curl_init($this->fUrchinUrl);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $httpOptions);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$this->fContent = curl_exec($handle);
curl_close($handle);

2) being careful to set the Host in the HTTP headers like so:

$header = 'Host: www.google-analytics.com\r\n';

if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{
$header .= 'User-Agent: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].'\r\n';
}
//Set the language to that of the client so analytics can track it.
if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']))
{
$header .= 'Accept-language: '.$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'].'\r\n';
}

$httpOptions = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>'GET',
'header'=>$header,
'request_fulluri'=>'true'
)
);

How would one set the page that the user leaves from?
How would you set how long the user spent on a page? Maybe set a session when the user arrives on the page and then check that session when they arrive on the next page and subtract it from the current time, BUT then you would not update the GA for the previous page!

I would think it might be an idea to create GALogging.php script that would run on a cron and loop through a log file. This way for each record in the log file it can look ahead to the next log for the same session if there is one then is can check the time and see how long the user spent on the current page/log and if there is not another log for that session then it knows that the current log/session was the page the user exited on.
It would loop through each long and use curl to send the info to GA.

Any thoughts?