John Davidson

Message:

I heard from a good friend that people in this community can be very helpful and good-hearted so I'd love some help from you peops!

I've been trying to push php variables to the datalayer using the .push() method in javascript (for google tag manager and google analytics). Below is the code snippet to better understand what's happening.

 <?php . . . . . . ?>

    

    <script language='javascript'>



     $(window).on("load", function() { 



     var variable1 = <?php echo $variable1_php; ?>;

     var variable2 = <?php echo $variable2_php; ?>;

     var variable3 = <?php echo $variable3_php; ?>;



      window.dataLayer.push({

             'event' : 'eventName',

             'variable1_for_gtm': $variable1,

             'variable2_for_gtm': $variable2,

              'variable3_for_gtm': $variable3,

});



});



</script>;

        

    <?php . . . . . .

What am I missing exactly? Thanks a lot!!
P.S. Other events are correctly being tracked by GTM and recorded in GA.

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My Answer:
Sure, I'd be happy to help! To push PHP variables to the dataLayer using JavaScript, you can use the following code snippet:

php
// Define your PHP variables here
$variable1 = "value1";
$variable2 = "value2";
?>




In this code snippet, we first define our PHP variables `$variable1` and `$variable2` with their respective values. Then, we use JavaScript to push these variables to the dataLayer using the `push()` method. We use PHP `echo` to output the PHP variables within the JavaScript code.

Make sure to include this code snippet within your HTML file where you have included the Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics scripts. This way, the PHP variables will be pushed to the dataLayer before the scripts are executed.