How To Setup FeedBurner StandardStats With Drupal

FeedBurner, the favorite feed management provider of many bloggers has just added site statistics to its StandardStats service.

Now you can use StandardStats to track not only your feed subscribers but your web site audience. But there's a couple of issues with Drupal sites. Let's see how to handle them.

I decided to move from Performancing Metrics after Nick wrote that Metrics had reached an end; it will go the open source route now.

Setting up FeedBurner's StandardStats is quite easy, and it's explained in the link provided above. I'll just focus in the line of Javascript that has to be pasted in your Drupal's theme.

If you use the code as provided by FeedBurner you won't be able to track your site visits correctly. FeedBurner's instructions don't mention it but the code has to go in your node.tpl.php file. If you've created specific files for different node types, like node-forum.tpl.php, you'll need to paste the code there as well.

Then you need to use some PHP to show just one instance of the code in the home page or listing pages, which repeat node.tpl.php many times.

The original code is:

<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/YourFeedAddress?i=http://www.example.com<?php print $node_url ?>" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

You should use that piece of code inside the block that starts with:

<?php if ($page != 0) { ?>

which is the one working when you visit a node's page.

Then to the home and listing pages. I inserted the following code in node.tpl.php:

<?php if ($id == 1 && $page == 0) { ?>
<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/YourFeedAddress?i=http://www.example.com/" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<?php } ?>

after this line:

<?php if ($page == 0) { ?><h2 class="title"><a href="<?php print $node_url?>"><?php print $title?></a></h2><?php }; ?>

That way I make sure the code appears only for the first of the many nodes listed.

It's just a start and I'm sure the code can be improved but there you have it, the all new FeedBurner StandardStats running with your Drupal site and tracking all your pages correctly.