Do you have a business directory site based on Joomla! plus SOBI2 extensions? Not yet or still thinking about it? Well, there's one site that offers Joomla! based site submission, JoomlaCase. You can submit your site to be displayed in there. I think it used to be a showcase for original and modified or customized design at first but people using the original commercial design are allowed to submit their site too.

If you go to the detail view of the submitted site, you will see that there are Google PageRank and Alexa Data displayed for each site so that can be an added value for us as visitors to learn more from each site showcased. Interesting huh?

Read on how to add that PR and Alexa Data badge...

The Sobi2 component in it's default form doesn't have these feature because SOBI2 has been developed for general directory component not only for specific website showcase directory. So, JoomlaCase have made a customization on the SOBI2 details view template for this purpose.

Customizing this SOBI2 to add Google PageRank and Alexa is not that hard. For Google PR, what you need to do is find a service site that provide an online PR grabing like this one http://www.mypagerank.net/. Ok here's what you should do to add these two,

Open your SOBI2 sobi2.details.tmp.php then add these lines,

<img src="http://www.mypagerank.net/smerankcheck.php?site=
<?php echo fieldsObjects['field_website']->data; ?>&s=style2">
 
<!-- for alexa -->
<?php
echo '<SCRIPT type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
src="http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/a?url=' .
$fieldsObjects['field_website']->data . '">
</SCRIPT>';
?>

Check the result on this Joomlacase golf site showcase sample page.