Posts by ellimondo

Hi

I am getting the following Runway backup error for a client on Ionos shared hosting. Any ideas how to resolve?

Thanks in advance,

Jon

Hi

Categories and collections are two core parts of Perch (and Runway) so I don't think you are going to have to transfer categories to collections, unless your categories start storing large amounts of data or relationships.

The biggest issue you are going to have is that (as far as I am aware) the Events app is not being updated or developed and therefore won't receive support anymore. If there's a new version coming then you'd need to ask the owners. It's all a bit quiet on that front at the moment…

Most of the Events app can be replicated using Collections as far as I know. Not used Events myself.

Sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes!

Best of luck,

Jon

A honeypot field is a hidden field designed to trip up bots.

There are a couple of third party recaptcha apps out there.

https://github.com/ryangittings/mbk-forms

https://github.com/harrisonbooth/perch-recaptcha

Hi

You need to contact the host. The entire site is down. This would be due to an unpaid bill or the host shutting down the site because of security issues.

Many hosts are banning unsecured forms. If they see abuse you have to show some kind of proof of protecting the form submission. Honeypot fields are not enough anymore.

Jon

I believe that each repeater will exist solely within each region so I think you'd need to pass the content into the template from a single shared region or use custom content call at the page template level.

I would recommend you update to the latest Perch which for your version is 2.8.34. This looks like it was an issue fixed in 2.8.29. Back up first of course!

You should have both apps installed in your config/apps file. mbk_forms replaces perch_forms in the perch:form app attribute in your template.

Runway collections are ideal for this kind of data.

A gateway time-out would suggest that the two servers aren't talking. Is the host blocking the 587 port? Perhaps try 465 with SSL or contact the host to see if they have a special SMTP relay account for you to use.

Have you tried define('PERCH_EMAIL_SECURE', 'STARTTLS');

That's what I've got in my 365 settings.

Just change the bootstrap path and filenames to match your image filenames and resource folder. Surely it’s the classes that matter. Not the file names.

Hi

You can update the collection index using a custom app. There are detailed instructions here: https://grabapipit.com/blog/re-indexing-collections.

Or you could write a bit of php that checks if the field exists for each entry and then applies the multiple filter programatically.

So if the index doesn't exist apply the first filter only. If it does then apply the multiple filter.

I wouldn't do a global change on such a small phrase. Restrict your search to inside the perch/template folder.

You should not give too much control to the user in content - use CSS to style for consistency across the website.

Byron Fitzgerald Snap ;)!

Do you have the ckeditor add-on installed? It's not part of the core Perch these days. Redactor is the default WYSIWYG editor.

e.g. If not then just change your editor="ckeditor" to editor="redactor".

It goes the other way round. If you match the filter to the 'location' related in the 'shop' collection then the second collection call in the each loop will populate the first collection with all the results from the location collection that match the 'shop' collection related field.

In this case all 'location' collections associated with the "shop' collection. It does the same as the template but just gives you the opportunity to manipulate the array before passing it into a template.

This would also be useful if you want to loop through a collection listing another collection that relates back to that original collection. I've used it for looping through a seminar timetable where I had Days and Seminars. If I want to display the day with associated seminars I then need to loop through the days, and for each day output a collection of seminars that have the same related day field.

Mine got complicated because I needed a third loop for theatres. But it works fine, apart from being able to order items on multiple fields which is not yet possible in Perch.

You can see it in action here: https://www.wibexpo.co.uk/whats-on/seminars/. It also generates a pdf using perch_template.

Yeah you'd probably need to update that with the new slug. I haven't done this before so you'd need to test it out.

The blog slug shouldn't change once set should it? I wonder if that's a very old bug still knocking about.

You could ignore the blog post url which I believe is hard wired, and use your own with the slug field type. This allows you to lock URLs down using a combination of the indelible and editable attributes.

https://docs.grabaperch.com/templates/field-types/slug/

Remember to use the right scope for an app - e.g. perch:blog rather than perch:content

Cool glad to hear you got it working. hus_hmd nails it above. It's normally used if you want to do something to the array before passing it into another template for example.