Tracking code for when customers signup/register

Question

I have been asked to add some javascript twitter tracking code on my site which should track when a new customer registers.

In my store there is no dedicated page for a successful signup for me to place this code, it just directs the customer to their acccount dashboard.

I have had a look at the event when a customer registers and it seems that it is called in:

Mage > Customer > controllers > AccountController.php

In line 526:

protected function _welcomeCustomer(Mage_Customer_Model_Customer $customer, $isJustConfirmed = false)
{

    $this->_getSession()->addSuccess(
        $this->__('Thank you for registering with %s.', Mage::app()->getStore()->getFrontendName())
    );

I thought by adding my javascript code onto the register success message like so it would add the tracking code onto the page:

protected function _welcomeCustomer(Mage_Customer_Model_Customer $customer, $isJustConfirmed = false)
{

    $tracking = '<div id="track"><script ....</script></div>';

    $this->_getSession()->addSuccess(
        $this->__('Thank you for registering with %s.', Mage::app()->getStore()->getFrontendName() . $tracking)
    );

But it doesn't seem to be tracking with this. Is this correct or is there another way of doing so?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '15 at 21:09

You can hook on customer_register_success event and set a session variable or a cookie indicating user has registered.

Example:

class Foo_Bar_Model_Observer
{
    public function customerRegisterSuccess($observer)
    {
        Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->setData('customer_register', true);
    }
}

If you need customer object you can access it by calling $observer->getEvent()->getCustomer();

On the next page load you can check if the session variable exists and print your javscript code if it does. Just remember to unset session data afterwards.

Tracking code for when customers signup/register

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