Question

I’m new to PHP and trying to customize the following PHP line on my Joomla site:

<? if ($event->venue_id) : ?><?=@service('com://site/component.model.venues')->id($event->component_venue_id)->getItem()->title?><? endif ?>

The line outputs the address, but I want to shorten the outputted address by removing the city and country. Is this possible some how in PHP?

I have been trying to do it with ‘preg_replace’ but not having much success. All the addresses are UK address so I tried:

<? if ($event->venue_id) : ?><?=@service('com://site/component.model.venues')->id($event->component_venue_id)->getItem(preg_replace('UK','',($event->venue_id))->title?><? endif ?>

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

If you just want to remove the , UK part, you don’t need preg_replace, you can just do a regular str_replace:

Change this:

@service('com://site/component.model.venues')->id($event->component_venue_id)->getItem()->title

To this:

str_replace(', UK', '', @service('com://site/component.model.venues')->id($event->component_venue_id)->getItem()->title)

This will replace , UK with an empty string. So it will turn an address like this:

11 Water Square, London, Greater London A12 34Z, UK

Into this:

11 Water Square, London, Greater London A12 34Z

If you also want to remove, for example, the string London,, you can just add another str_replace:

str_replace('London, ', '', str_replace(', UK', '', @service('com://site/component.model.venues')->id($event->component_venue_id)->getItem()->title))

This would result in that address becoming:

11 Water Square, Greater London A12 34Z