Question

I have a web site hosted on an Apache web server. Another person uploads static HTML files to a folder each week via FTP generated from third party software.

I am looking to insert Goggle Analytics code on each page when it is rendered while preserving the URL’s, original HTML, and process of uploading. I do not know when the files are uploaded or the page names (there are 100s of files uploaded each time).

I initially thought of setting the HTML to be parsed with the PHP engine; however, this is not suitable as the pages do not contain PHP code and I do not modify the HTML pages through find and replace.

Is there a way to use the PHP engine to process the page injecting code just before the end of the page or some other approach?

Answer 1

Well this would be a simple way, jsut to give you an idea

in .htaccess in the top level directory of the published html files:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/path/in/question/if/not/document/root/(.+\.html)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php [L]

in index.php:

   $ga = 'your ga tracking code';

   $file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

   if(file_exists($file))
   {

      $content = file_get_contents($file);

      if(false !== ($pos = strpos($content, '</body>')))
      {
         $content = substr($content, 0, $pos).$ga.substr($content, $pos);
      }

      print $content;
      exit;
   }