#8353 – Analytics need opt-in in Europe / how to edit the code?

Hi

I think most of cookie consent providers need something like that.

Is it possible to do this in 4SEO too?

To do this, we would need to have plugins for each cookie consent provider, of which there are many, per country, made for Joomla or not, so 4SEO cannot do that right now. But having the ability to add custom attributes to the script tag is likely a nice option, I'll think about it.

As for now, you can:

- create a "Raw content" rule (SEO Tools | SEO rules, create a rule and select Raw content as the type). This lets you inject anything you want in various positions of the page (top of head, bottom of head, bottom of body, etc). You'll have to create the entire snippet.

- do an override: anything 4SEO outputs is done through JLayouts. For instance, for Google Analytics V4, you'll override the 'default.forseo.analytics.globalga_headtop' layout.

The original file is in /plugins/system/forseo/vendor/weeblr/forseo/layouts/default/forseo/analytics/globalga_headtop.php

- an alternative to that is to use a filter, which is like doing a layout override but in code only, without re-outputting the entire code snippet. I need to dig the details for that if a JLayout override is not convenient.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

To each their own :)

That said, I checked quickly how a filter would work instead and to achieve what you described above, all that's required is to add the following to the /library/weeblr/forseo_functions.php  file:

$hooks->add(
	'wblib_layout_default_forseo_analytics_universalga_headbottom',
	function ($renderedLayout, $data) {

		$renderedLayout = str_replace(
			'<script ',
			'<script type="text/plain" data-cookiefirst-category="advertising" ',
			$renderedLayout
		);

		return $renderedLayout;
	}
);

The benefits are:

- it will work regardless of the template you use (overrides are per template)

- if I update the analytics code (because Google changed it), you have to redo the override. The filter will still work as before

- no additional file to create and backup

Cheers

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Hi

You're welcome! Of course, there's always the drawback that these filters cannot be created/edited directly from within Joomla admin, contrary to templates overrides. I thought about creating a small plugin to do that, as the hooks system is shared across all our extensions but just could not find the time for it.

I see that you're making great progress with the German translations, thanks for that. It's a pretty big piece of software already, with lots of messages and text!

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Hi

I have actually removed one string this week :)

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr