Integrating with Google Analytics?

[dereko]

I have a website were new users sign up and some eventually become paying customers. I use analytics to track goal conversion which is great.

What i want now is be able to see any customer in by administration system with where they were referred from.

Was is Google natural listings, adwords, a different site or if they went direct?

At the moment by looking at my customer database i can't do this. I can get general info from Analytics but i can't drill down in to it.

We have coded a PHP back end manager software to view all paying customers from our Mysql Database. Is there a way i can find out from Google analytics through an API or something where they came from and all the other nice stats that comes with it? Basically i want to fill up a few extra feilds in our customer database so we know more about them.

Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[louie]

are you talking about the referer?

did you try using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?

 

[dereko]

yea i already have that stored.. but i'd like to pick a someone in my customer database and see all the information google retrieves on that visitor.. I suspect there is no way to do this. so for the moment i am just doing it manually by recording $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] store it as a session variable when then enter the site and add it to the new customer recorded on sign up. This seem to have got me a good bit of the way towards what i want.

 

[louie]

there can only be one referrer at a time, so if you want to see a history for a particular customer, create a separate table to log the data anytime he comes back.
Whatever google collects and stores, you can do it yourself as well.

 

[dereko]

yea it seems liek thats my best option.. recording a good few things now but i practically have to write a php stats program would be nice if some stats program had an API to pull information from into my owen admin area.