scope Matomo PHP tracker packaged with embedded Matomo

[scrobbleme]

We are using Matomo for WordPress and a custom trackings based on https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-php-tracker

The latest version of the PHP tracker (3.4.0) introduced Strict types for arguments and return types
Unfortunately this breaks compatibility... (autoloader probably picks our lib version first)

Declaration of WpMatomo\AjaxTracker::sendRequest($url, $method = 'GET', $data = null, $force = false) 
must be compatible with 
MatomoTracker::sendRequest(string $url, string $method = 'GET', $data = null, bool $force = false): string 
in /wp-content/plugins/_matomo/classes/WpMatomo/AjaxTracker.php on line 107

Solution

Add types as well, which generally is good and also should be compatible with versions < 3.4.0 without types

[diosmosis]

Hi @scrobbleme , there is a PHP tracker included with Matomo for WordPress, in /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/vendor. This is the same version distributed with the latest Matomo version. Can you please use that tracker?

[scrobbleme]

@diosmosis Yes, I know. Unfortunately both solutions can be used separately.
But I only need one REST call within my custom solution -> so just can call it directly and don't need the lib 👍

My intention with this ticket was more like:
adding types to the tracker within Matomo, makes it ~ at least for a while ~ upwards and backwards compatible with the latest and previous standalone tracker. (still may break other non-typed solution, which might use it within Wordpress)

"types" in PHP are not a new concept, but it looks like people are just started using it. (Maybe thanks to AI?).
Especially with the WP ecosystem, where any plugin may have different versions of just some lib it quite often conflicts...