Track new members with Google Analytics

On a phpBB forum

[jozomannen]

I've just started to use Google Analytics for one of my forums (phpBB). And I would like to set a successfull registration as a goal. The problem is that for setting up a goal, I should just add the URL for the "Thank You"-page, but with phpBB, the "Thank You"-page is /profile.php so that's not going to show correct statistics. Any ideas how I can track members with Google Analytics on a phpBB forum?

[rogerd]

You might have to hack the code to go to an intermediate "thank you" page. You could also spawn a popup thank you page (easier to code, IMO), but that might underestimate your success rate due to popup blockers.

[jozomannen]

I got an idea when you said popup. What about just an empty iframe, will that work? That can't be stopped by popup-blocker, right?

[rogerd]

Interesting idea... let us know if it works!

[jozomannen]

I've set it up now, so I will hopefully see if it works within 24 hours. I'll post the results here.

Thank you very much for your help.

[jozomannen]

It worked out fine, thanks for the help.