Google Analytics Regular Expression

[richkoi]

Has anyone had any success installing a regular expression url as their goal in Google Analytics? Below is an example of what I am trying to setup as a goal:

http://website.com/store/index.php?t...r_mode=placing

This is how I was told to set it up, but that does not seem to be working:
http:\/\/website\.com\/store\/index\.php\?target=orders&mode=details&order_id=[\d]*&order_mode=placing

Has anyone had experience with regular expression? Am I setting this url up correctly?

Thanks,

[computergenius]

Not sure what you are trying to do here, but are you aware that Google may not index the page correctly, as one of the variable names ends in id.

Looking at the URL, indexing may not matter...

[dhensley]

Hmm, I've never messed with Google Analytics but I can see that this is going to get icky, since there's no guarantee that the order of your GET variables will be maintained in your URL. You'd probably be better off using something like mod_rewrite (if you're running apache), though I'm honestly not quite sure what you're trying to accomplish here. Perhaps you could give a few more details of your cunning plan?

Dave.

[AjiNIMC]

Never tried it, do let us know if it works. It will be interesting to watch.

If it doesnt work, do contact Google developer and request for this modification.

AjiNIMC

[brettgodfrey]

Richkoi

You seem to be using the escape character (back slash) when you don't need to...

Try on a new php page...

<? echo "http://website.com/store/index.php?target=orders&mode=details&order_id=[\d]*&order_mode=placing"; ?>

Not too sure what you are doing with =[\d]* but it does not look too good.

Hope this helps
Brett

[philscanlan]

Remember ampersands have special meaning in a regex replace string too.

[dhensley]

Originally Posted by brettgodfrey

You seem to be using the escape character (back slash) when you don't need to...

Try on a new php page...

<? echo "http://website.com/store/index.php?target=orders&mode=details&order_id=[\d]*&order_mode=placing"; ?>

Actually, he does need to escape these. AFAIK, G.A.'s regular expressions are Perl compatible, therefore these characters will all have special regex meanings. He's not trying to simply print a URL here.

Originally Posted by brettgodfrey

Not too sure what you are doing with =[\d]* but it does not look too good.

He's trying to match a string of zero or more digits for the order number. Looks right to me.

Originally Posted by philscanlan

Remember ampersands have special meaning in a regex replace string too.

Actually, they don't.

Dave.

[philscanlan]

http://www.regular-expressions.info/perl.html