question: How to get data to show up in debug? about php-ga4 HOT 3 CLOSED

There was a person previously that had issues with live debugger and I think it looks for something that GTAG sends. I did not make it work with the server side tracking, if you find a solution please feel free to share!

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I have just looked into this again, and it appears that events sent through the measurement protocol which your implementation uses, do not show up in the debug view.

The only way to validate events being sent as per documentation is to send them to https://www.google-analytics.com/debug/mp/collect which will return a validation response such as

{
  "validationMessages": [
    {
      "fieldPath": "events",
      "description": "Event at index: [0] has invalid name [_badEventName]. Names must start with an alphabetic character.",
      "validationCode": "NAME_INVALID"
    }
  ]
}

Reference: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/validating-events?client_type=gtag

I would suggest adding a paragraph to the README about this, if you agree, I can submit a PR for it.

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Sure, feel free to add it, perhaps some kind of notice around the top but somewhere after the gdpr notice.

Edit: Please do also add the link, either next to it or in the links at bottom.

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