Posts by Byron Fitzgerald

  • Problem with perch_collection raw output

    Rather than skipping the template and returning raw, you can just make a perch template to output the XML.


    Haven't seen your template but here is a best guess for a possible solution

  • Combining Collections?

    You should be able to use an array of collections as the key.


    Code
    1. perch_collection([
    2.         'Blog',
    3.         'Case Studies',
    4.         'Publications',
    5.         ''Resources'
    6.     ], [
    7.     'template' => 'blog-template.html',
    8.     'category' => perch_get('cat'),
    9. ]);

    Although this might not work with MySQL 5.7 as standard, due to strict mode, though you should be able to update the settings as required

  • Members App - Image upload

    Easiest option would be to set up some tags for verified and un verified. If the user is unverified redirect them to a regular perch form, (you can prefill in any info in hidden fields) and then a user can upload a file that way. Once received you can update the tags manually.

  • Deleted Asset Cleanup

    I believe the clean up occurs on save of a region/collection, so I can only guess that without it being saved in a region it won't be subject to the same clean up rules.


    You could always use a collection or a multiple item region to add the files, and then provide a url from there. Otherwise I think you'll have to manually remove the assets

  • Deleted Asset Cleanup

    It might be that the asset is still be used by previous revisions of the content region (for the undo functionality). Once the asset is no longer used by the revisions, the asset should be available for cleanup. You can alter this by adding this to your perch config, define(PERCH_UNDO_BUFFER, 'Value') where the value is the total revisions (defaults to 30). I don't think this will retro actively delete revisions however.

  • Multi Select

    The select_field allows for, multiple inputs, below is an example

    Code
    1. $class = 'input-simple categories ' . $this->Tag->size('xxl');
    2. $multiple = true;
    3. $Form->select($input_id, $opts, $value, $class, $multiple, $attributes);

  • Categories as Navigation Items

    You could potentially add a category set field to your page attributes template. This should then be accessible through perch navigation function, and then rather than using the subitems tag you can just loop through the categories instead.

  • Mailchimp Signup and Form Redirection

    You can have multiple apps for a single form, just set it to the following <perch:form id="subscribe" app="perch_mailchimp perch_forms" double-optin="true" />


    As you have a redirection, you'll need to have perch_mailchimp before perch_forms, or the forms app will redirect before the mailchimp app is called.

  • user editable content in a layout - possible?

    A shared region sounds like what you are looking for. You can declare the region anywhere - like a perch layout in your case .

    Code
    1. perch_content_create('Contact Details', [
    2.     'template' => 'shared/contact',
    3.     'shared' => true
    4. ]);


    Combining this with perch_content_custom you can share the data anywhere on your site, whilst letting you use different templates.

    Code
    1. perch_content_custom('Contact Details', [
    2.     'template' => 'shared/footer',
    3. ]);

  • Formatting Text

    Just wanted to make sure I was giving you the right information, hopefully the below helps


    Each website page will use a page template. These should be found in the pages folder in templates. For you I guess this would be path/to/webiste/cms/templates/pages. In these pages you should see parts which look similar to

    Code
    1. perch_content_create('Article',[
    2. 'template' => 'general/article.html'
    3. ])

    The 'Article' string here represents the region name - which shows up in the CMS admin area. If you don't see this, go into your region you want to add the formatting options to, and click the region options tab. There should be a select option for template. This is what you'll need to look for in the next step


    These templates should be located in path/to/webiste/cms/templates/content. In these templates will be your HTML markup. Perch uses an XML template system to define inputs, so you'll be looking for a tag that looks similar to the following

    Code
    1. <perch:content id="content" type="textarea" label="Content" />

    You should be able to search the labels to find the correct field. You'll need to update this tag to the follow (Keeping your ID and label the same as you currently have)

    Code
    1. <perch:content id="content" type="textarea" html="true" editor="redactor" label="Content" />

  • Forms App and redirection

    Could you not add a manual redirection in your page file?


    Code
    1. if($campaignSlug = PerchUtil::post('lm_campaign_name_slug')) {
    2.     PerchSystem::redirect($campaignSlug.'/downloads')
    3. }

    and then have lm_campaign_name_slug as as hidden field

  • Cannot login

    What are the textarea inputs looking like in your template? If your looking to use the WYSIWYG editor it should look similar to below.

    Code
    1. <perch:content id="body" type="textarea" label="Article body" html editor="redactor">

    If that looks good are you getting any JS errors in your console?