Posts by Glen

Glen · Jan 11th 2021

Unfortunately, nothing is being displayed, I ran a debug which showed an array error but after fixing that nothing still displays. The updated code I am using is as follows...

PHP

<?php
$newsDateTime = '2020-11-06 09:52';
perch_layout('time_ago', array(
'newsDateTime' => date("j M Y", strtotime($newsDateTime)),
));
// Skip the template and return the comments
$comments = perch_comments('South Prom', [
'skip-template' => true,
'sort' => 'commentDateTime',
'sort-order' => 'DESC',
'data' => [
'commentsTotal' => $commentsTotal,
],
], true);
// Map the array like we do in the previously used each property
array_map( function($post) {
$post['postAgo'] = get_time_ago(strtotime($post['commentDateTime']));
return $post;
}, $comments);
perch_template('comments/webcam_comments.html');

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Time ago code...

PHP

<?php
function get_time_ago( $time )
{
$time_difference = time() - $time;
if( $time_difference < 1 ) { return '1s'; }
if( $time_difference > 2592000 ) { return perch_layout_var('newsDateTime', true); }
$condition = array(
12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'years ago',
7 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'weeks ago',
24 * 60 * 60 => 'days ago',
60 * 60 => 'hours ago',
60 => 'mminutes ago',
1 => 'seconds ago'
);
foreach( $condition as $secs => $str )
{
$d = $time_difference / $secs;
if( $d >= 1 )
{
$t = round( $d );
return $t . $str;
}
}
}

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Comments code...

Code

<perch:before>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-9">
<button class="btn btn-outline-secondary mb-3" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#commentsModal">Write a comment</button>
<h5><perch:content id="commentsTotal"> Comment<perch:if id="commentsTotal" value="1" match="gt">s</perch:if></h3>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
</perch:before>
<li id="comment<perch:content id="commentID" type="hidden">" class="media mt-3 mb-4">
<img src="//www.gravatar.com/avatar/<perch:content id="commentEmail" type="email" hash="md5">?s=120&d=mm" width="64" height="64" class="mr-3">
<div class="media-body">
<perch:if id="rating" value="1" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="2" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="3" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="4" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="5" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<br>
<em><small><perch:content id="commentName" type="text"> <span class="text-black-50 ml-2"><perch:content id="postAgo" type="text"><perch:content id="commentDateTime" format="d F Y" type="date" time="false"></span></small></em>
<br>
<perch:content id="commentHTML" type="textarea" html="false" striptags="true">
</div>
</li>
<perch:after>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</perch:after>

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Thank you so much

Glen · Jan 11th 2021

Quote from ian Hobbs

This seems odd to me. Normally layouts are string literals pointing to a html file in templates.

Code

perch_layout('time_ago', array(

'newsDateTime' => date("j M Y", strtotime($newsDateTime)),

));

Code

perch_layout('layouts/_root_comment_date.html');

Hi ian Hobbs

You can pass variables into layouts just like you can with other regions... https://docs.grabaperch.com/pe…nd-nav/layouts/variables/

As mentioned, it works perfectly well on another site using the blog addon, for some reason I can’t get it to work on this site using the comments addon?

Glen

Glen · Jan 8th 2021

HI Byron Fitzgerald, sorry me again!

I have just run <perch:showall> and it is showing that the id postAgo isn't getting passed into the template.

As mentioned, I have copied everything over from the other site so I'm not sure why this would be.

Many thanks - it is much appreciated.

Glen

Glen · Jan 8th 2021

Hi Byron Fitzgerald - I hope you had a great Christmas & News Year?

I was wondering if you could help me once again?

I have copied over the timeAgo code to another website but this time into the perch_comments addon. I have copied everything across like for like but nothing is being displayed, would you mind please having a quick look to see what I've missed?...

PHP

<?php
perch_layout('time_ago', array(
'newsDateTime' => date("j M Y", strtotime($newsDateTime)),
));
perch_comments('South Prom', [
'template' => 'webcam_comments.html',
'sort' => 'commentDateTime',
'sort-order' => 'DESC',
'data' => [
'commentsTotal' => $commentsTotal,
],
'each' => function($post) {
$post['postAgo'] = get_time_ago(strtotime($post['commentDateTime']));
return $post;
},
]);

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Code

<perch:before>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-9">
<button class="btn btn-outline-secondary mb-3" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#commentsModal">Write a comment</button>
<h5><perch:if id="commentsTotal" value="0" match="gt"><perch:comments id="commentsTotal"> </perch:if>Comment<perch:if id="commentsTotal" value="1" match="gt">s</perch:if></h3>
<ul class="list-unstyled">
</perch:before>
<li id="comment<perch:comments id="commentID" type="hidden">" class="media mt-3 mb-3">
<img src="//www.gravatar.com/avatar/<perch:comments id="commentEmail" type="email" hash="md5">?s=120&d=mm" width="64" height="64" class="mr-3">
<div class="media-body">
<perch:if id="rating" value="1" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="2" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="3" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="4" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<perch:if id="rating" value="5" match="gte"><i class="fas fa-star text-warning"></i><perch:else><i class="far fa-star text-warning"></i></perch:if>
<br>
<em><small><perch:comments id="commentName" type="text"> <span class="text-black-50 ml-2"><perch:comments id="timeAgo" type="text"><perch:comments id="commentDateTime" format="d F Y" type="date" time="false" suppress></span></small></em>
<br>
<perch:comments id="commentHTML" type="textarea" html="false" striptags="true">
</div>
</li>
<perch:after>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</perch:after>

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...thank you sooooo much for your help.

Glen

Glen · Dec 28th 2020

This is the perfect addition to Perch, did this ever get developed?

Glen

Glen · Nov 13th 2020

Thank you Clive Walker

It took a bit of fiddling getting the closing </div> tags to work properly but it works perfectly. 👍

Glen · Nov 13th 2020

Hi Perch Community!

I am currently building a site for a local magazine and we would like to have a page with all the previous issues on - all 15 years worth!

I'm adding the previous issues into a collection so I can also include them around the rest of the site too, specially the latest issue. But for the previous issues page I was wondering if there was a way to dynamically divided up the issues by year using just one perch_collection() rather than having one for each year, and then of course having to remember to add a new one each year.

So far I have...

PHP

<?php
perch_collection('Previous Issues', [
'template' => 'previous_issues.html',
'sort' => 'issueDate',
'sort-order' => 'ASC',
'filter'=>'issueDate',
'match'=>'eqbetween',
'value'=> '2020-01-01, 2020-12-31',
'data' => [
'thisYear' => '2020'
],
]);
perch_collection('Previous Issues', [
'template' => 'previous_issues.html',
'sort' => 'issueDate',
'sort-order' => 'ASC',
'filter'=>'issueDate',
'match'=>'eqbetween',
'value'=> '2019-01-01, 2019-12-31',
'data' => [
'thisYear' => '2019'
],
]);
perch_collection('Previous Issues', [
'template' => 'previous_issues.html',
'sort' => 'issueDate',
'sort-order' => 'ASC',
'filter'=>'issueDate',
'match'=>'eqbetween',
'value'=> '2018-01-01, 2018-12-31',
'data' => [
'thisYear' => '2018'
],
]);

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...etc.

Many thanks for your help

Glen

Glen · Nov 9th 2020

Thank you, you're a bloody superstar Byron Fitzgerald - It work's perfectly 😁

Glen · Nov 9th 2020

Thanks Byron Fitzgerald for your reply.

I have now got the php working but I still can't seem to pull in the blog post date from Perch. The output I get is "1 Jan 1970" but if I manually include a date it works perfectly....

pages/home.php...

Code

// $newsDateTime = '2020-11-06 09:52';
$newsDateTime = perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'), 'postDateTime', true);
perch_layout('global/time_ago', array(
'newsDateTime' => date("j M Y", strtotime($newsDateTime)),
));
perch_blog_custom([
'sort' => 'postDateTime',
'sort-order' => 'DESC',
'count' => 3,
'template' => 'home_main_headlines.html',
'data' => [
'postAgo'=> get_time_ago(strtotime($newsDateTime)),
],
]);

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layouts/global/time_ago.php...

PHP

<?php
function get_time_ago( $time )
{
$time_difference = time() - $time;
if( $time_difference < 1 ) { return '1s'; }
if( $time_difference > 2592000 ) { return perch_layout_var('newsDateTime', true); }
$condition = array(
// 12 * 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'y',
7 * 24 * 60 * 60 => 'w',
24 * 60 * 60 => 'd',
60 * 60 => 'h',
60 => 'm',
1 => 's'
);
foreach( $condition as $secs => $str )
{
$d = $time_difference / $secs;
if( $d >= 1 )
{
$t = round( $d );
return $t . $str;
}
}
}

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templates/blog/home_main_headlines.html...

Code

<perch:before>
<div class="container main-headlines">
<div class="row">
</perch:before>
<perch:if exists="perch_item_first">
<div class="col-xl-8">
<a href="<perch:blog id="postURL">" class="main-headline-lg" style="background-image: url('<perch:blog type="image" id="image" width="600" height="315" crop="true">');">
<span class="overlay">
<h3><perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" /></h3>
<perch:blog id="excerpt" type="textarea">
<span class="small">
<i class="far fa-clock mr-1"></i> <perch:blog id="postAgo" type="text">
<i class="fas fa-map-marker-alt mr-1 ml-3"></i> <perch:categories id="categories" set="location" label="Categories">
<perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />
</perch:categories>
</span>
</span>
</a>
</div>
<div class="col-xl-4">
<perch:else/>
<a href="<perch:blog id="postURL">" class="main-headline-sm" style="background-image: url('<perch:blog type="image" id="image" width="600" height="315" crop="true">');">
<span class="overlay">
<h3><perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" /></h3>
<span class="small">
<i class="far fa-clock mr-1"></i> <perch:blog id="postAgo" type="text">
<i class="fas fa-map-marker-alt mr-1 ml-3"></i> <perch:categories id="categories" set="location" label="Categories">
<perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />
</perch:categories>
</span>
</span>
</a>
</perch:if>
<perch:after>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</perch:after>

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Any help to point me in the right direction would be must apricated.

Glen

Glen · Nov 5th 2020

Hi Everyone.

I have a news based client / website for which I am using the blog app for and I am wanting to have a more dynamic way of displaying when the post was published.

You see this method quite a lot on most news sites, for example on BBC News, where instead of displaying the date itself, you display "4 hours ago" or "2 days ago" etc.

I'm guessing the best way to do it is to write a php script to generate to output and then pass that via PerchSystem::set_var('name', 'value') , but I was just wondering if anyone done this on Perch or would know the best way to achieve this?

Many thanks

Glen

Glen · Sep 25th 2019

Oh dear! School boy error. Need more coffee.

Thanks drewm

Glen · Sep 25th 2019

Hi

I have added a new master page via FTP, gone to add a new page in Runway but the new Master page isn't listed in the dropdown.

I have gone into 'Master Pages' to try and kick start the new page but that hasn't worked either.

As you can see, the FTP is showing the am_project_management directory on the server (which has a .html file within it) but the Master Page dropdown, when trying to add a new page, in Perch isn't picking it up...

...any help would be gratefully received.

PHP

Perch Runway: 3.1.5, PHP: 7.0.33, MySQL: 10.1.41-MariaDB, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, litespeed
Installed apps: content (3.1.5), assets (3.1.5), categories (3.1.5), perch_events (1.9.5), perch_forms (1.12), perch_shop_orders (1.2.6), perch_shop_products (1.2.6), perch_shop (1.2.6), perch_members (1.6.4), perch_mailchimp (3.1)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = [ 'perch_events', 'perch_forms', 'perch_members', 'perch_shop', 'perch_mailchimp' ];
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /cms
PERCH_PATH: /home/annamace/public_html/cms
PERCH_CORE: /home/annamace/public_html/cms/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/annamace/public_html/cms/resources
Image manipulation: GD Imagick
PHP limits: Max upload 64M, Max POST 64M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 64M
F1: 3b606135b33e6a102526838f4152a807
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: annamace.co.uk
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/annamace/public_html
REQUEST_URI: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

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Glen · Apr 11th 2019

Quote from drewm

Try output="brandSlug"

Yeah that fixed it, thanks Drew

Glen · Apr 7th 2019

Hi drewm

Sorry for the delay, this new forum doesn't automatically send you an email when someone replies, which is a bit annoying.

The only thing that <perch:showall> shows with regards to the brand is the brand ID number. As mentioned I can get the brand name to display but not the slug.

Many thanks

Glen

Glen · Mar 27th 2019

Hi

I am trying to output the brand slug on a product page as so...

Code

<a href="/shop/brands/<perch:shop id="brand" type="shop_brand" output="slug" />"><perch:shop id="brand" type="shop_brand"></a>

...the brand name displays perfectly but the brand slug isn't outputting at all...

Code

<a href="/shop/brands/">SKINADE®</a>

...how can I output the brand slug on the product page please?

Many thanks

Glen · Jan 28th 2019

Hi Drew,

I had updated from v3.1.3 - However no need to worry as my bad, I had forgotten I needed to make an update to the /perch/config/buckets.php file.

All working now

Glen

Glen · Jan 28th 2019

Hi

This has only just started to happen so I'm guessing it's a bug since upgrading to 3.1.4?

When I try to select an asset, it selects it fine, click save and it hasn't saved it. The default grey upload icon appears in the CMS admin and no image is displayed on the website.

Looking at the source code I get <img src="""

Diagnostics:

PHP

Perch Runway: 3.1.4, PHP: 7.1.26, MySQL: 10.1.37-MariaDB, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, litespeed
Installed apps: content (3.1.4), assets (3.1.4), categories (3.1.4), perch_blog (5.6.1), perch_events (1.9.5), perch_forms (1.12), perch_shop_orders (1.2.6), perch_shop_products (1.2.6), perch_shop (1.2.6), perch_members (1.6.4)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = [ 'perch_forms', 'perch_events', 'perch_members', 'perch_blog', 'perch_shop' ];
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /cms
PERCH_PATH: /home/facemed/public_html/cms
PERCH_CORE: /home/facemed/public_html/cms/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/facemed/public_html/cms/resources
Image manipulation: GD Imagick
PHP limits: Max upload 50M, Max POST 50M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 50M
F1: 3b606135b33e6a102526838f4152a807
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: facemed.co.uk
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/facemed/public_html
REQUEST_URI: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /cms/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

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Template:

Code

<perch:shop id="image" type="image" label="Main product image" width="1500" height="1500" crop="true" bucket="products" help="NB: Image will be cropped to 1500 x 1500 pixels" suppress="true" divider-before="Product images" order="300">
<perch:shop id="image" type="image" width="750" height="750" crop="true" suppress="true" order="310">
<perch:shop id="image" type="image" width="1200" height="630" crop="true" suppress="true" order="320">
<perch:if exists="image">
<img src="<perch:shop id="image" type="image">" itemprop="image" alt="<perch:shop id="brand" type="shop_brand"> <perch:shop id="title">">
<perch:else/>
<img src="/cms/resources/products/product-image-coming-soon.png" itemprop="image" alt="<perch:shop id="title">" class="noimg">
</perch:if>

...as you will see, I use perch:if to display an image coming soon image, which also is not displaying, so it would seem the system knows the image is there but is not saving it?

Many thanks

Glen

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