Posts by ian Hobbs

You can directly call a php date function...

'value'=>date('Y-m-d'),

no need to add the extra variable unless you using it in a few places.

Quote from hus_hmd

Hello Gary,

You can keep using Perch Members for user authentication, but you may have to manage the profiles outside of it. Even if you write a custom form handler to handle the file uploads, there's no public API for locating and updating Members.

One option is to use a Runway Collection for the profiles and link each member to a Collection item. You'd need to write a custom form handler and use the collection import API to locate and update the Collection items. If you are dealing with images, you can also import them as Perch Assets or perhaps upload them straight to something like Cloudinary and only record the image URL in Perch.

That's an interesting idea.

Thanks for this. I'm also concerned with creating a facility for Members to write to their profiles with images and other text content. Understanding this and implementing this would be a great leap forward for the app. Looking forward to some traction on this.

No.

Looking for some clarification on blocks usage.

1. Does the whole blocks structure need to be represented in a page template?

A block model with 3 different types of blocks is on the authoring template ( the model )

And the view only shows1 block at the view template?

Here's the model

and here's the view for the page

Or should this be rendered with a callback function.?

Yes thought of that as well - thanks Drew

Hi,

I'm debugging an issue on a Perch site using a list/view model. Somehow list items are being duplicated in the DB.

The perch3_content_index table has ended up with no Indexes the standard 5 col structure is present.

1. indexID is missing AUTO_INCREMENT.
2. No Primary, idx_fk , idx_key, idx_key_val and idx_keys

This site still works but editing throws a mysql error about the missing indexes.

I'd rather try and reconstruct indexes - wondering what is the best way to go about it.

Here's the list page code. Is the first statement spawing the duplicates?

Thanks in advance for any help

I have numerous examples but ... I agree with Drew. I wouldn't build any more. Blocks and Repeaters can replace the gallery. List pages and views of the lists which is modelled and expanded in the documentation somewhere is also a useful model. A Runway collection would be the best replacement.

Runway will work as a headless CMS - ie you could have a React front end - but you'll still need to run a php server somewhere... to run the backend.

good job... can see that being very useful .

rarely to never

The simplest ( and the best ) approach is to use the built in navigation group function in Perch.

1. Create a new item in the Navigation Groups section in Perch
2. Assign that to a page.
3. Customise the menu with adding links and styling through the navigation templates and application of the perch_navigation functions

If your creating a custom nav-list that references non perch pages then use the Perch page list methods or a Runway collection and append that to the above

in the template.

see https://docs.grabaperch.com/fu…n/perch-pages-navigation/ also look at the navigation templates section.

check your php error logs too see if you can trace the error. Also you may want to try and decouple mail chimp to see if the form is functioning.

Sounds like you deleted the App on the backend but the database will still be active and the code calling for posts on the pages still pulling content.

What do you trying to do?

Yes .... specially if it doesn't pull all the FB styling and scripting crap implemented in other ( wp ) plugins.