Unable to define the required variables in hook_omniture_variables() [#1824106]

Hi all,

I am trying to configure the Omniture Integration module in a Drupal 7 site. According to what I could gather by now, unlike in Drupal 5 here instead of the .inc file we define the variables with the hook_omniture_variables(). I couldn't find any documentation for this other than the sample code given in the omniture_basic.module file included with the module. But even after referring the code, I am unable to set and pass the various required variables like sitename, pagename, etc to Omniture reporting.

Can anybody please guide me with any information they have regarding using Omniture integration module for Drupal 7?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

Comment #1

bleen CreditAttribution: bleen commented 27 October 2012 at 14:51

There is a patch in the issue queue that would allow you to add custom variables right in the GUI. It would be terrific if you could give it a try and report back your results: #1791670: Allow sites to include variables (with token replacement) from the Omniture settings form

That said, hook_omniture_variables() simply needs to return an array in the following form:

array(
  'header' => 'some js that should be included before your vars',
  'variables' => array(
    'varname1' => 'value',
    'varname2' => 'value',
    'varname3' => 'value',
  ),
  'footer' => 'some js that should be included after your vars',
);

But it would be really awesome if you could try the patch in that issue above first.

Comment #2

neethu r CreditAttribution: neethu r commented 29 October 2012 at 15:01

Hi bleen18,

Thanks a lot for your response. I'll try this and get back soon. Also meanwhile can you please, help me understand this code in omniture_basic.module:

if ($variable_name = variable_get('omniture_var_pagename', FALSE)) {
$variables[$variable_name] = strip_tags(drupal_get_title());
}
if ($variable_name = variable_get('omniture_var_username', FALSE)) {
global $user;
$variables[$variable_name] = format_username($user);
}

Can you please tell me what this implements and also the variables in bold italic shown above, are they the defaults for Drupal 7?

Thanks

Comment #3

bleen CreditAttribution: bleen commented 29 October 2012 at 16:51

The variables you highlighted in #2 will always be set to the values that you (or some user with privileges) have entered into the those fields that were added to the omniture settings form in the omniture_basic_form_omniture_admin_settings_alter() function. Does that make sense?

As for the larger question of what the whle chunk of code is doing there, it is adding the current page name and/or the current username to the $variables array that will be returned by the omniture_basic_omniture_variables function. This way, the following will be included on your pages:

s.prop5 = "Current page title";
s.prop6 = "Username of current user";

(assuming you entered "s.prop5" and "s.prop6" in the omniture settings form)

Hope that helps