Using the Google Analytics PHP Client Library in Laravel

Question

I am fairly new to Laravel and am trying to integrate the Google Analytics PHP Client Library ( https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/quickstart/service-php ) in an application I am building.

According to the documentation , the library needs to be installed via Composer and then loaded using:

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

In the vendors folder, I can see that there is a folder named google. So my question is, what would be the correct way to load this library in Laravel? Would it be using the code shown above, or some other method?

Thanks

Answer 1

The autoload.php file is already required by your laravel app, you should be able to access it by it's namespace after running composer dump-autoload as suggested by Ayaz.

You may want to look at a package like https://github.com/spatie/laravel-analytics where they've done the work to integrate the google analytics api into Laravel a bit more. Even if you don't use it I'm sure you can glean some good info from checking out the source files.

Answer 2

According to the documentation , the library needs to be installed via Composer and then loaded

You can do it by executing following command in your git bash or cmd

$ composer dump-autoload