Keeping your Google My Business opening hours up to date is helpful to your customers, and we wanted to show a customer’s hours on their Joomla! website. We didn’t find and extension to help us with this, but did find a response in StackExchange. The code is straight forward; however, you have to have “billing” enabled in your Google Developers Console. We used a Gift Credit Card to get the account started.
Getting Started:
- Google API Key: Create a project in the Google API Console and enable the Places API.
- Enable Billing: The Places API requires an active billing account.
- Place ID: Find your business’s Place ID using the Google Place ID Finder.
Here is the code we used.
<?php
// Define your API Key and Place ID
define('GOOGLE_API_KEY', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
define('GOOGLE_PLACE_ID', 'YOUR_PLACE_ID');
// API endpoint URL for place details, requesting only opening hours
$url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com' . GOOGLE_PLACE_ID . '&fields=opening_hours&key=' . GOOGLE_API_KEY;
// Fetch the data from the Google Places API
$hours_raw = @file_get_contents($url);
if (!empty($hours_raw)) {
$hours_json = json_decode($hours_raw, true);
// Check if the request was successful and hours are available
if (isset($hours_json['result']['opening_hours']['weekday_text'])) {
$business_hours = $hours_json['result']['opening_hours']['weekday_text'];
// Display the hours in an HTML list
echo '<h3>Business Hours:</h3>';
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($business_hours as $weekday_hours) {
echo '<li>' . htmlspecialchars($weekday_hours) . '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
} else {
echo 'Could not retrieve business hours or hours are not specified.';
}
} else {
echo 'Error fetching data from the Google API. Check your API key and network connection.';
}
?>
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