Google Analytic's and Universal PHP Footers

Question

If I have a universal Footer, include('footer.php'); on my page - will the google analytic's script I just put there be able to track my page views?

Answer 1

Google Analytics runs in the browser after the PHP has generated the page's HTML. So if you use a PHP include to include a common footer containing the Google Analytics code it will track the page view for all of those pages.