Get Google Maps Link

[Rob]

Hello.
We have built a custom display of events for our site. We are using tribe_get_events then a foreach loop to display each event. In the foreach loop, we successfully display tribe_get_address and tribe_get_start_date, but are not able to do tribe_get_map_link_html.

tribe_get_map_link_html returns this (no href value):
<a class="tribe-events-gmap" href="" title="Click to view a Google Map" target="_blank">+ Google Map</a>

We also tried tribe_get_map_link but it returns nothing.

We want to return just the url for the map so that we can wrap it in our own <a> tag. How can we get the Google Maps link from the event?

Our full code:

$today = strtotime('-5 hours');
						$daycount = 0;
						/* echo date("n/j D G:i e", $today); */
						echo '<div class="cal-toggle"><button class="cal-toggle-button">Click To View Our Weekly Schedule<div class="arrow-down red"></div></button></div>
						<div class="mm-cal-wrapper">
					                        <div class="mm-cal-container">
					                        <div class="mm-cal-grid-wrapper">
					                        <ul class="mm-cal-grid">';
						while($daycount<14) {
							/* each day */
							echo '<li class="mm-cal-day">';
							echo '<span class="mm-cal-day-date">' .date("n/j D", strtotime('+'.$daycount.' day')). '</span>';
							echo '<ul class="mm-cal-events">';
							$events = tribe_get_events( array(
								 'start_date'	=> date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('+'.$daycount.' day') ),
								 'end_date'		=> date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('+'.++$daycount.' day') ),
								 'eventDisplay'	=> 'custom'
							));
							if ( empty( $events ) ) {
							    echo '&nbsp;';
							}
							else foreach( $events as $event ) {
							    $locationname = tribe_get_address( $event );
							    $locationlink = tribe_get_map_link_html( $event );
							    echo '<li class="mm-cal-event"><span class="mm-cal-event-detail time">';
							    echo tribe_get_start_date($event) . '-' . tribe_get_end_date($event);
							    echo '</span><br><span>';
							    echo $locationname;
							    echo $locationlink;
							    echo '</span></li>';
							}
							/* end each day */ 
							echo '</ul></li>';	
						}
						echo ' </ul>
                        
                        </div></div></div>';

[Rob]

A single event does display the full Google Maps link:
http://mobilemug.com/dev/event/third-event/

(all events currently use the same Venue)

Thanks

[Brian]

Hi,

Thanks for using our plugins.

I can help out here.

This is not quite what you are looking for, but this function creates a link to the Google Map. (adds the link markup)

echo tribe_get_meta('tribe_event_venue_gmap_link');

Does that work for you?

Cheers

[Rob]

Thanks Brian. No-go.
There is nothing returned from echo tribe_get_meta('tribe_event_venue_gmap_link');
Can this be called while in a tribe_get_events even though it’s venue info?

[Brian]

Ok I dug a little deeper and found this:

<?php echo tribe_get_map_link(); ?>

That showed just a Google map link in the single event template.

That may work for you.

Cheers

[Rob]

Thanks Brian.
That also returns nothing. We’re using tribe_get_events, is there something I’m missing?

[Brian]

I only tested in the single template and it worked there, but maybe you can directly pass a event id into it to work.

You can try passing the event id into it like this:

$event_id = get_the_ID();

echo tribe_get_map_link( $event_id );

If that does not work another option around this is to use this function:

$venue_id = tribe_get_venue_id( $event_id );

And then use the meta fields from the venue as outlined here:

https://gist.github.com/jesseeproductions/c2df90a56827dae990a0

To build a custom Google Maps Link.

Otherwise that is all we have for this and there is not much else we can provide on customizations.

[Rob]

Thanks.
This got me close.
I needed $event_id = $event->ID;
than I was able to return the correct info.

[Brian]

I am glad to see you were able to figure it out.

I am going to go ahead and close this ticket. If you have a similar issue or another in the future, please do not hesitate to create a new ticket.

Thanks!

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