Posts by davedesigner

I assume you are you using Authenticated mail setup in your config.php file?

https://docs.grabaperch.com/perch/configuration/email/

Quote from Winston Grace

Yes, so as a new customer, you have to:

1. Start your purchase by being redirected to the Perch Runway page
2. Ignore the fact the website is saying you are now buying Runway license for $249 + VAT instead of $69 + VAT.
3. Create your account details
4. Remove the Runway license from your cart
5. Ignore the warning ! Perch versions are now no longer available for new licenses and Plread documentation to upgrade from Perch to Perch Runway
6. Add a standard Perch licence to your cart

I get the feeling that who ever did the changes to the shopping cart has just done the minimum effort front end to create sales for Runway and did not spot this. Which probably means it would work.

Quote from JamieT

I will be severely F'ed off if support for standard Perch no longer exists.

Same here. The sites I run are predominately smaller clients that have no need for the power of Runway.

What's happened to.... "Perch, the really little CMS. Perch is designed to make building and editing small sites a breeze"

I fear the cost of Runway upgrades just won't wash with these clients.

I've been following this thread for a while. It's a depressing read. My work recently has mainly turned into maintenance for existing sites rather than clients wanting anything new,. I would account this because of the Covid side of things of course.

Going forward is there any recommendations for a replacement CMS's to look into if Perch went/faded away?

It remained as a PDF. Perch does no rendering/resizing on PDF's which I'd expect.

Safari displays PDF's in the browser using the IMG tag and blows the layout as the size was specific.

Firefox and other browsers do not display PDF's and nothing appear in Perch either so the client is unaware of the problem.

My client has a problem recognising what is a PDF and what is a jpg.

Obviously there's no cropping on a PDF file and blows the layout and displays "as is".

Is there a way of restricting type="image" to uploading only true web images?

How can I pass a php variable into a category template

...I added $today_date = date('Y-m-d'); and...

Seemed to fix this.

I've a got the list of events like so...

However I want to hide any event older than today's date.

How do I filter the events to only that are only greater than or equal to today's date?

Thanks for confirming Drew.

This would explain some editors getting in a pickle on sites with listing where an image is the key content. Editors (especially beginners) leap in to create content before they've gathered the relevant material like the key image!

I generally would create a fallback image for these sites but of course there's no feedback in the Editor that this is happening.

There is a case where stopping publishing where an image is required would help.

Checking previous sites it appears that the required="true" does work on type="image" 

Can anyone confirm this is true?

...this is very worrying if you can't specify that an image must be required. Help!

I'm using Perch: 3.1.5, PHP: 7.1.30,

When setting an image with required="true" I've notice that the image field ignores the "required" status and saves with no image. Is this a bug?

...forgot the `'template' => '_page_banner_image.html',`

...no wait I think I've got it...

Thanks it sort of works as the comparison can be made in the 'Products' region.

However the Image banner being `suppress="true"` in the in the detail template is being drawn and published to another place on the page using...

...and the 'default_banner' ID is not turning up in the _page_banner_image.html template.

How to I get 'default_banner' in that template?

Thanks. I think I've got this correct and the default banner field is now available in the 'Products' region.

However when I use...

This as it stands outputs the detail page as a full list and not getting a single item on say page (product_page.php?p=my-page)

How do I sort 'Products' on a single slug query?

Quote from drewm

Could you not manage the default banner with another region?

The default image banner template is in another region. It's used in the list page (product_page.php) and the other template is using detail_template_with_banner.html in the (product_page.php?p=every_other_page).

Is there a way of getting a field from a region in (product_page.php) into a region in (product_page.php?p=every_other_page) to do a compare with perch:if in a template?

I thought they had to be in the same runtime?

Or should the default banner template be in a shared region to make it available?

Wondering if there's a way of achieving the following...

I have a list and detail page where the user can upload a banner image to override a default banner image (set for the whole list) that I've uploaded to a resources folder outside of Perch CMS (for those cases when an image is not available when adding a new item to the list).

Which is easily achieved in a template...

However is there a way of the user changing the default banner themselves within Perch?

Currently the default banner image has to appear on the list page as the default banner image but would also show on a single item detail page when nothing has been uploaded to override it.

fixed!