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• Piwik and Piwik PRO featured in TrustRadius buyer’s guide

  3 septembre 2014, par Piwik Core Team — About, Meta

  We are proud that Piwik and Piwik PRO are being featured in the TrustRadius Buyer’s Guide to Digital Analytics Software and scooping up two awards:

  

  Piwik Named A Leader in TrustRadius Digital Analytics TrustMap™ for Small Businesses.

  Piwik Rated Strong Performer in TrustRadius Digital Analytics TrustMap ™ for Enterprise.

  Rankings Based on User Ratings and Market Segment Adoption

  Learn more

  The TrustRadius TrustMaps™ guide features reviews from authenticated TrustRadius users on a number of digital analytics platforms from the biggest names in the digital analytics industry – Piwik and Piwik PRO being two of them. You can download your free copy of the buyer’s guide here (Note: there is a form to fill before you can download the PDF).

  Read the TrustRadius user reviews about Piwik on their website.

  Or view other awards won by Piwik here.

• End of Piwik Mobile 1 – Focus is on Piwik Mobile 2

  2 septembre 2014, par Piwik Core Team — Community, Piwik Mobile Releases

  More than four years after its initial release, we will remove Piwik Mobile 1 from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in one week. During that time the app was downloaded more than 60.000 times with an average rating of 4.6 and over 2000 ratings. Thank you to our community of users for all of this!

  Why we must focus on Piwik Mobile 2

  Unfortunately we do not have the resources to maintain Piwik Mobile 1 to be compatible with the latest iOS and Android updates (namely iOS 8 and Android L). The last update of Piwik Mobile 1 was over one year ago and the underlying framework, which we are using to develop the app, is nearly two years old. Making the code compatible with the current version of the underlying framework to support the latest platform versions would take us many weeks. As a little background: From the beginning Piwik Mobile 1 has been a free app and was developed by a single person Thomas in his spare time who is now focussing on Piwik Mobile 2.

  Can I still get it?

  We are announcing this today so you get a chance to install the app via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store while it is still available.

  If you are one of the 87% of our Piwik Mobile 1 users who are already using Android 4+ or iOS 7+ then you can install Piwik Mobile 2 (make sure you upgrade your Piwik platform to 1.12 or 2.x recommended).

  What happens after the app is removed?

  If you have already installed the app it won’t be removed from your device and you will still be able to use it. Android users can still download Piwik Mobile 1 but we cannot guarantee it will work on all devices. Lastly the code our free software is available on GitHub and you can build it from the source if you have to.

  The future of Piwik Mobile

  Piwik Mobile version 2.1 is currently in beta testing phase. This new version includes several useful new features such as support for Segmentation. If you use Android, give it a try!

• End of Piwik Mobile 1 – Focus is on Piwik Mobile 2

  2 septembre 2014, par Piwik Core Team — Community, Piwik Mobile Releases

  More than four years after its initial release, we will remove Piwik Mobile 1 from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in one week. During that time the app was downloaded more than 60.000 times with an average rating of 4.6 and over 2000 ratings. Thank you to our community of users for all of this!

  Why we must focus on Piwik Mobile 2

  Unfortunately we do not have the resources to maintain Piwik Mobile 1 to be compatible with the latest iOS and Android updates (namely iOS 8 and Android L). The last update of Piwik Mobile 1 was over one year ago and the underlying framework, which we are using to develop the app, is nearly two years old. Making the code compatible with the current version of the underlying framework to support the latest platform versions would take us many weeks. As a little background: From the beginning Piwik Mobile 1 has been a free app and was developed by a single person Thomas in his spare time who is now focussing on Piwik Mobile 2.

  Can I still get it?

  We are announcing this today so you get a chance to install the app via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store while it is still available.

  If you are one of the 87% of our Piwik Mobile 1 users who are already using Android 4+ or iOS 7+ then you can install Piwik Mobile 2 (make sure you upgrade your Piwik platform to 1.12 or 2.x recommended).

  What happens after the app is removed?

  If you have already installed the app it won’t be removed from your device and you will still be able to use it. Android users can still download Piwik Mobile 1 but we cannot guarantee it will work on all devices. Lastly the code our free software is available on GitHub and you can build it from the source if you have to.

  The future of Piwik Mobile

  Piwik Mobile version 2.1 is currently in beta testing phase. This new version includes several useful new features such as support for Segmentation. If you use Android, give it a try!

• How to create a scheduled task – Introducing the Piwik Platform

  28 août 2014, par Thomas Steur — Development

  This is the next post of our blog series where we introduce the capabilities of the Piwik platform (our previous post was How to create a custom theme in Piwik). This time you’ll learn how to execute scheduled tasks in the background, for instance sending a daily email. For this tutorial you will need to have basic knowledge of PHP.

  What can you do with scheduled tasks?

  Scheduled tasks let you execute tasks regularly (hourly, weekly, …). For instance you can:

  • create and send custom reports or summaries
  • sync users and websites with other systems
  • clear any caches
  • import third-party data into Piwik
  • monitor your Piwik instance
  • execute any other task you can think of

  Getting started

  In this series of posts, we assume that you have already set up your development environment. If not, visit the Piwik Developer Zone where you’ll find the tutorial Setting up Piwik.

  To summarize the things you have to do to get setup:

  • Install Piwik (for instance via git).
  • Activate the developer mode: ./console development:enable --full.
  • Generate a plugin: ./console generate:plugin --name="MyTasksPlugin". There should now be a folder plugins/MyTasksPlugin.
  • And activate the created plugin under Settings => Plugins.

  Let’s start creating a scheduled task

  We start by using the Piwik Console to create a tasks template:

  ./console generate:scheduledtask

  The command will ask you to enter the name of the plugin the task should belong to. I will simply use the above generated plugin name “MyTasksPlugin”. There should now be a file plugins/MyTasksPlugin/Tasks.php which contains some examples to get you started easily:

  class Tasks extends \Piwik\Plugin\Tasks
  {
      public function schedule()
      {
          $this->hourly('myTask');  // method will be executed once every hour
          $this->daily('myTask');   // method will be executed once every day
          $this->weekly('myTask');  // method will be executed once every week
          $this->monthly('myTask'); // method will be executed once every month
  
          // pass a parameter to the task
          $this->weekly('myTaskWithParam', 'anystring');
  
          // specify a different priority
          $this->monthly('myTask', null, self::LOWEST_PRIORITY);
          $this->monthly('myTaskWithParam', 'anystring', self::HIGH_PRIORITY);
      }
  
      public function myTask()
      {
          // do something
      }
  
      public function myTaskWithParam($param)
      {
          // do something
      }
  }

  A simple example

  As you can see in the generated template you can execute tasks hourly, daily, weekly and monthly by registering a method which represents the actual task:

  public function schedule()
  {
      // register method remindMeToLogIn to be executed once every day
      $this->daily('remindMeToLogIn');  
  }
  
  public function remindMeToLogIn()
  {
      $mail = new \Piwik\Mail();
      $mail->addTo('me@example.com');
      $mail->setSubject('Check stats');
      $mail->setBodyText('Log into your Piwik instance and check your stats!');
      $mail->send();
  }

  This example sends you an email once a day to remind you to log into your Piwik daily. The Piwik platform makes sure to execute the method remindMeToLogIn exactly once every day.

  How to pass a parameter to a task

  Sometimes you want to pass a parameter to a task method. This is useful if you want to register for instance one task for each user or for each website. You can achieve this by specifying a second parameter when registering the method to execute.

  public function schedule()
  {
      foreach (\Piwik\Site::getSites() as $site) {
          // create one task for each site and pass the URL of each site to the task
          $this->hourly('pingSite', $site['main_url']); 
      }
  }
  
  public function pingSite($siteMainUrl)
  {
      file_get_contents($siteMainUrl);
  }

  How to test scheduled tasks

  After you have created your task you are surely wondering how to test it. First, you should write a unit or integration test which we will cover in one of our future blog posts. Just one hint: You can use the command ./console generate:test to create a test. To manually execute all scheduled tasks you can execute the API method CoreAdminHome.runScheduledTasks by opening the following URL in your browser:

  http://piwik.example.com/index.php?module=API&method=CoreAdminHome.runScheduledTasks&token_auth=YOUR_API_TOKEN

  Don’t forget to replace the domain and the token_auth URL parameter.

  There is one problem with executing the scheduled tasks: The platform makes sure they will be executed only once an hour, a day, etc. This means you can’t simply reload the URL and test the method again and again as you would have to wait for the next hour or day. The proper solution is to set the constant DEBUG_FORCE_SCHEDULED_TASKS to true within the file Core/TaskScheduler.php. Don’t forget to set it back to false again once you have finished testing it.

  Starting from Piwik 2.6.0 you can alternatively execute the following command:

  ./console core:run-scheduled-tasks --force --token-auth=YOUR_TOKEN_AUTH

  The option “–force” will make sure to execute even tasks that are not due to run at this time. So you won’t have to modify any files.

  Which tasks are registered and when is the next execution time of my task?

  The TasksTimetable plugin from the Marketplace can answer this question for you. Simply install and activate the plugin with one click by going to Settings => Marketplace => Get new functionality. It’ll add a new admin menu item under Settings named Scheduled Tasks.

  Publishing your Plugin on the Marketplace

  In case you want to share your task(s) with other Piwik users you can do this by pushing your plugin to a public GitHub repository and creating a tag. Easy as that. Read more about how to distribute a plugin.

  Advanced features

  Isn’t it easy to create scheduled tasks? We never even created a file! Of course, based on our API design principle “The complexity of our API should never exceed the complexity of your use case.” you can accomplish more if you want. For instance, you can define priorities, you can directly register methods from different objects and classes, you can specify at which time of a day a task should run and more.

  Would you like to know more about tasks? Go to our Tasks class reference in the Piwik Developer Zone.

  If you have any feedback regarding our APIs or our guides in the Developer Zone feel free to send it to us.

• How to create a scheduled task – Introducing the Piwik Platform

  28 août 2014, par Thomas Steur — Development

  This is the next post of our blog series where we introduce the capabilities of the Piwik platform (our previous post was How to create a custom theme in Piwik). This time you’ll learn how to execute scheduled tasks in the background, for instance sending a daily email. For this tutorial you will need to have basic knowledge of PHP.

  What can you do with scheduled tasks?

  Scheduled tasks let you execute tasks regularly (hourly, weekly, …). For instance you can:

  • create and send custom reports or summaries
  • sync users and websites with other systems
  • clear any caches
  • import third-party data into Piwik
  • monitor your Piwik instance
  • execute any other task you can think of

  Getting started

  In this series of posts, we assume that you have already set up your development environment. If not, visit the Piwik Developer Zone where you’ll find the tutorial Setting up Piwik.

  To summarize the things you have to do to get setup:

  • Install Piwik (for instance via git).
  • Activate the developer mode: ./console development:enable --full.
  • Generate a plugin: ./console generate:plugin --name="MyTasksPlugin". There should now be a folder plugins/MyTasksPlugin.
  • And activate the created plugin under Settings => Plugins.

  Let’s start creating a scheduled task

  We start by using the Piwik Console to create a tasks template:

  ./console generate:scheduledtask

  The command will ask you to enter the name of the plugin the task should belong to. I will simply use the above generated plugin name “MyTasksPlugin”. There should now be a file plugins/MyTasksPlugin/Tasks.php which contains some examples to get you started easily:

  class Tasks extends \Piwik\Plugin\Tasks
  {
      public function schedule()
      {
          $this->hourly('myTask');  // method will be executed once every hour
          $this->daily('myTask');   // method will be executed once every day
          $this->weekly('myTask');  // method will be executed once every week
          $this->monthly('myTask'); // method will be executed once every month
  
          // pass a parameter to the task
          $this->weekly('myTaskWithParam', 'anystring');
  
          // specify a different priority
          $this->monthly('myTask', null, self::LOWEST_PRIORITY);
          $this->monthly('myTaskWithParam', 'anystring', self::HIGH_PRIORITY);
      }
  
      public function myTask()
      {
          // do something
      }
  
      public function myTaskWithParam($param)
      {
          // do something
      }
  }

  A simple example

  As you can see in the generated template you can execute tasks hourly, daily, weekly and monthly by registering a method which represents the actual task:

  public function schedule()
  {
      // register method remindMeToLogIn to be executed once every day
      $this->daily('remindMeToLogIn');  
  }
  
  public function remindMeToLogIn()
  {
      $mail = new \Piwik\Mail();
      $mail->addTo('me@example.com');
      $mail->setSubject('Check stats');
      $mail->setBodyText('Log into your Piwik instance and check your stats!');
      $mail->send();
  }

  This example sends you an email once a day to remind you to log into your Piwik daily. The Piwik platform makes sure to execute the method remindMeToLogIn exactly once every day.

  How to pass a parameter to a task

  Sometimes you want to pass a parameter to a task method. This is useful if you want to register for instance one task for each user or for each website. You can achieve this by specifying a second parameter when registering the method to execute.

  public function schedule()
  {
      foreach (\Piwik\Site::getSites() as $site) {
          // create one task for each site and pass the URL of each site to the task
          $this->hourly('pingSite', $site['main_url']); 
      }
  }
  
  public function pingSite($siteMainUrl)
  {
      file_get_contents($siteMainUrl);
  }

  How to test scheduled tasks

  After you have created your task you are surely wondering how to test it. First, you should write a unit or integration test which we will cover in one of our future blog posts. Just one hint: You can use the command ./console generate:test to create a test. To manually execute all scheduled tasks you can execute the API method CoreAdminHome.runScheduledTasks by opening the following URL in your browser:

  http://piwik.example.com/index.php?module=API&method=CoreAdminHome.runScheduledTasks&token_auth=YOUR_API_TOKEN

  Don’t forget to replace the domain and the token_auth URL parameter.

  There is one problem with executing the scheduled tasks: The platform makes sure they will be executed only once an hour, a day, etc. This means you can’t simply reload the URL and test the method again and again as you would have to wait for the next hour or day. The proper solution is to set the constant DEBUG_FORCE_SCHEDULED_TASKS to true within the file Core/TaskScheduler.php. Don’t forget to set it back to false again once you have finished testing it.

  Starting from Piwik 2.6.0 you can alternatively execute the following command:

  ./console core:run-scheduled-tasks --force --token-auth=YOUR_TOKEN_AUTH

  The option “–force” will make sure to execute even tasks that are not due to run at this time. So you won’t have to modify any files.

  Which tasks are registered and when is the next execution time of my task?

  The TasksTimetable plugin from the Marketplace can answer this question for you. Simply install and activate the plugin with one click by going to Settings => Marketplace => Get new functionality. It’ll add a new admin menu item under Settings named Scheduled Tasks.

  Publishing your Plugin on the Marketplace

  In case you want to share your task(s) with other Piwik users you can do this by pushing your plugin to a public GitHub repository and creating a tag. Easy as that. Read more about how to distribute a plugin.

  Advanced features

  Isn’t it easy to create scheduled tasks? We never even created a file! Of course, based on our API design principle “The complexity of our API should never exceed the complexity of your use case.” you can accomplish more if you want. For instance, you can define priorities, you can directly register methods from different objects and classes, you can specify at which time of a day a task should run and more.

  Would you like to know more about tasks? Go to our Tasks class reference in the Piwik Developer Zone.

  If you have any feedback regarding our APIs or our guides in the Developer Zone feel free to send it to us.