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Adding structured data to Upcoming Events Module

Tom Apelt
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9 years 10 months ago - 9 years 10 months ago #91782 by Tom Apelt

Adding structured data to Upcoming Events Module was created by Tom Apelt

Hi
After a small problem with the sturctured data in the module - I started to add some structured data to the the "improved.php" in
/modules/mod_eb_events/tmpl

so I made the following changes to the original one
1. Initialization - Line 64 changed:

Code:

<li class="vevent clearfix row-fluid">

to

Code:

<li class="clearfix row-fluid" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Event">

! It is important that you remove the class "vevent" from this line (even if you don´t want to impement structured data) because it causes errors with microformat.org

2. Adding the Date - After Line 65 i put

Code:

<meta itemprop="startDate" content="<?php echo JFactory::getDate($row->event_date)->format("Y-m-d\TH:i"); ?>">

actually i just copied this line from the timeline view an changed the getdate()

3. Adding URL: Changed line 86 from:

Code:

<a class="url eb-event-link" href="<?php echo JRoute::_(EventbookingHelperRoute::getEventRoute($row->id, 0, $itemId), false); ?>">

to

Code:

<a class="url eb-event-link" href="<?php echo JRoute::_(EventbookingHelperRoute::getEventRoute($row->id, 0, $itemId), false); ?>" itemprop="url">

4. Adding Name - Line 95 from:

Code:

<strong class="summary"><?php echo $row->title ; ?></strong>

to

Code:

<strong class="summary" itemprop="name"><?php echo $row->title ; ?></strong>

5. Adding location - and here i have still a little problem - so I added (copy paste from the timeline.php)

Code:

<div style="display:none" itemprop="location" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Place">
<div itemprop="name"><?php echo $row->location_name ; ?></div>
<div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
       <span itemprop="streetAddress"><?php echo $location->address; ?></span>
       <?php
	        if ($location->city && $location->state && $location->zip)
        {
	?>
	       <span itemprop="addressLocality"><?php echo $location->city; ?></span>, 
	       <span itemprop="addressRegion"><?php echo $location->state; ?></span>
	       <span itemprop="postalCode"><?php echo $location->zip; ?></span>
	       <span itemprop="addressCountry"><?php echo $location->country; ?></span>
	<?php
        }
        ?>
</div>

So i think this is a a very quick and dirty method - I am not very familiar with php. So has anybody a more elegant way with the address?
The other problem is, that it just show in the structured data test:
location
@type Place
name BLABLA
address
@type PostalAddress
so no street address/locality country etc, - So I guess I miss something... Can you help me with that? I attached my improved.php as zip-file.

So in general it is working - an Events are shown in the google search results -but i am not sure how relevant the missing address details are...

Last edit: 9 years 10 months ago by Tom Apelt.

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