Google Analytics Question

[israelimports]

Okay, so what I am trying to do is exclude my-self from being recorded by Google Analytics on my own site.

What I believe will work is as followed:

Saving the Google Tracking Code into it's own php file (googleanalytics.php) and saving it in the same dir as my html_header.php file.

Adding the following code to the bottom of html_header.php right before the </head> tag.

****127.0.0.1 is just an example of a IP address: (it's not used in the code) and is replaced with my real IP address****

<?php
$ip_address = $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

         if ($ip_address != '127.0.0.1')
            include ('googleanalytics.php');
        
?>

Will this bypass the Tracking Code if the ip_address is equal to my_ip_address? and then continue down the script after after this check?

Or

Would it be more effective if I used

<?php
$ip_address = $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

         if($ip_address = '127.0.0.1') 
            break;
          else 
            include ('googleanalytics.php');
                        

?>

Thanks for any help on this matter, as I am still new to PHP and it's logic.

[DrByte]

Have you considered using one of the GA addons?

[RescoCCC]

Just log in to your Google Analytics account and add a filter for your IP address.

[israelimports]

Thank you for both responses tho I found the solution to my problem using PHP and desired.

<?php 
$ip_address = $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
   while($ip_address != 'my_ip_address_here')
   {
        include 'googleanalytics.php';
    break;
   }
?>

Thought I'd share in case if anyone was wondering how to do it in PHP with out using an addon or if you work for someone and you don't have access to the analytics account.

[RescoCCC]

Why would anybody want to hack the code when Google provides the option to filter IP addresses and it takes about a minute to do it?

[israelimports]

Hack what code? There is no "hacking" involved.

On top of my site I volunteer my time to a some non-profit organizations and I don't have access to their analytics accounts and well unfortunately just stepping a few of them through signing up for the service was a pain. You don't always have access to simplified tools to do things for you, it's good to know work arounds to those things that otherwise are simple with the proper tools.