Direct links to events are not working every time

Hallo,

I have a strange problem. I want to link from a weekly timetable out on the respective dates of a series of events. Unfortunately, this only works sometimes and not at all the events. For events of a group it works sometimes and sometimes does not. If it doesn't work, it shows a list of the categories.

To create the links with a php script, I use the category and the alias from the table "events". How can I get that it always points to the correct date.

You can find the timetable at :
www.yoga-therapie-prien.de/index.php/stundenplan-temp?&W=45

Thanks a lot for your help

Hi Peter

The easiest way would be go to Events Booking -> Configuration, look at SEF router settings tab, find the config option Insert Event ID, set it to Yes

Then check it again. It should help solving the issue

Regards,

Tuan

Thanks for your help!

This attempt does not was I appear... Check the link of an future date:

www.yoga-therapie-prien.de/index.php/stundenplan-temp?&W=46

Has anyone another Idea?

Hi Peter

So you are writing custom PHP script (not using Joomla code / running inside Joomla). If so, I am not sure if we can help as the link is really depends on Joomla core routing

Maybe you can attach the code you wrote here and give me same links which don't work so that I can look at it to see whether I can help with anything?

Tuan

Hi Tuan,

yes, you are right, I wrote an external script to display the time table. The script is included with costumPHP...
I believe that the essential point of the script is:

$content = "<a href='/index.php/component/eventbooking/$cat/$eventID-".$alias."' target=blank style='display:block; height:100%;'>$title</a>";

The variables are self explaning.

Thanks a lot for your help!
Peter

Hi Peter

That won't work due to the way Events Booking routing work. I would suggest that:

1. You create a hidden menu item, something called events or upcoming events to display list of events. Access to that page to see the format of links

2. The link will has this format:

/index.php/events/category-alias/event-alias (or /index.php/events/category-alias/EVENT_ID-event-alias

(events is the alias of the menu item you created)

3. Each time you add new event to the system, you will need to access to the above menu item again so that the links for the events will be generate

4. Modify the code to have the links in that format above

(The step #3 is important, sorry for that limitation but the code for Events Booking routing is difficult with other extensions router)

The other option is using none-sef routing. So the link will be index.php?option=com_eventbooking&view=event&id=ID_OF_EVENT

Tuan