/**
* Alias an existing id with a different unique id. This is helpful when you want to associate a generated id to
* a username or e-mail address.
*
* Because aliasing can be extremely vulnerable to race conditions and ordering issues, we'll make a synchronous
* call directly to Mixpanel when this method is called. If it fails we'll throw an Exception as subsequent
* events are likely to be incorrectly tracked.
* @param string|int $original_id
* @param string|int $new_id
* @return array $msg
* @throws Exception
*/
public function createAlias($original_id, $new_id)
{
$msg = array("event" => '$create_alias', "properties" => array("distinct_id" => $original_id, "alias" => $new_id, "token" => $this->_token));
$options = array_merge($this->_options, array("endpoint" => $this->_getEndpoint(), "fork" => false));
$curlConsumer = new ConsumerStrategies_CurlConsumer($options);
$success = $curlConsumer->persist(array($msg));
if (!$success) {
error_log("Creating Mixpanel Alias (original id: {$original_id}, new id: {$new_id}) failed");
throw new Exception("Tried to create an alias but the call was not successful");
} else {
return $msg;
}
}
protected function _execute_forked($url, $data)
{
$this->forkedCalls++;
return parent::_execute_forked($url, $data);
}
