[Seaside] Setting up MixPanel and Seaside

[Lawrence Kellogg]

Thanks, Paul! I think my problem was that I wasn't rendering the first Mixpanel declaration on every single page, thereby 
causing a crash. Now, I think I have it working. 

  Regards, 

  Larry



On May 12, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Paul DeBruicker wrote:

> Without being able to see whats actually rendered its not easy to guess whats going wrong.  I'g guess that for the first bit you actuatlly want:
> 
> html html:'<!-- start Mixpanel --><script type="text/javascript">(function(d,c){var a,b,g,e;a=d.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=!0;a.src=("https:"===d.location.protocol?"https:":"http:")+"//api.mixpanel.com/site_media/js/api/mixpanel.2.js";b=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b);c._i=[];c.init=function(a,d,f){var b=c;"undefined"!==typeof f?b=c[f]=[]:f="mixpanel";g="disable track track_pageview track_links track_forms register register_once unregister identify name_tag set_config".split(" ");
> for(e=0;e<g.length;e++)(function(a){b[a]=function(){b.push([a].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0)))}})(g[e]);c._i.push([a,d,f])};window.mixpanel=c})(document,[]);
> mixpanel.init("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");</script><!-- end Mixpanel -->'.
> 
> 
> And for the second you want:
> 
> html script (JSStream on: 'mixpanel.track("User Login");').
> 
> 
> The 3 steps I would do are:
> 1. paste their code into a page and try to run mixpanel.track()
> 2. get seaside to insert their code into a page then manually run mixpanel.track() from the browser console.
> 3. get seaside to insert the mixpanel.track() whereever you want it.
> 
> 
> So first make sure its loaded into your browser by manually checking in the page you want it to run in, then worry about getting Seaside to emit the necessary JS.
> 
> 
> And its easier to help when you provide both the Smalltalk code and the resulting HTML that's generated in a page.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/12/2012 08:49 AM, Lawrence Kellogg wrote:
>> Any ideas? Perhaps, I just don't understand the Seaside Javascript
>> interface.
>> 
>> Larry
>> 
>> 
>> On May 10, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Lawrence Kellogg wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> So, I want to use MixPanel (www.mixpanel.com
>>> <http://www.mixpanel.com/>) to monitor user actions in realtime. How do I
>>> configure this from within Seaside?
>>> 
>>> I am told that I have to include this:
>>> 
>>> html script: '<!-- start Mixpanel --><script
>>> type="text/javascript">(function(d,c){var
>>> a,b,g,e;a=d.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=!0;a.src=("https:"===d.location.protocol?"https:":"http:")+"//api.mixpanel.com/site_media/js/api/mixpanel.2.js";b=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];b.parentNode.insertBefore(a,b);c._i=[];c.init=function(a,d,f){var
>>> b=c;"undefined"!==typeof f?b=c[f]=[]:f="mixpanel";g="disable track
>>> track_pageview track_links track_forms register register_once
>>> unregister identify name_tag set_config".split(" ");
>>> for(e=0;e<g.length;e++)(function(a){b[a]=function(){b.push([a].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0)))}})(g[e]);c._i.push([a,d,f])};window.mixpanel=c})(document,[]);
>>> mixpanel.init("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");</script><!-- end Mixpanel -->'.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> and
>>> 
>>> html script: 'mixpanel.track("User Login");'
>>> 
>>> The first call seems to work ok, but the second call crashes in:
>>> 
>>> openTag
>>> "Open the receiving and all associated attributes onto the document."
>>> 
>>> self document openTag: self tag attributes: attributes closed: self
>>> isClosed
>>> 
>>> with this walk back, as document seems to be nil:
>>> 
>>> MessageNotUnderstood 2010: No method was found for the selector
>>> <#'openTag:attributes:closed:'> when sent to <nil> with arguments
>>> contained in <anArray( 'script',
>>> aWAHtmlAttributes('type'->'text/javascript'), false)>.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?
>>> 
>>> Larry
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