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Re: Blog - show full post

planetbrain — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:35:31 +1200

Played some more and found that

function mytlittletest() {
return this->ParsedContent() ;
}

returned my the full blog entry but

function mytlittletest() {
return this->ParsedContent() ;
}

Always returned 4 for ALL the entries on my summary page (maybe just coincidence but that was the number of characters in my very short test post.

Anyway playing about a bit

and changing the original ParsedContent() function from

function ParsedContent() {
$parser = new BBCodeParser($this->Content);
$content = new Text('Content');
$content->value =$parser->parse();
return $content;
}

function ParsedContent() {
$parser = new BBCodeParser($this->Content);
$content = new Text('Content');
$content->value = Convert::raw2xml($this->Content);
return $parser->parse();
}

seemed to cure the problem and I was able to use

function ShowFullPost() {
if ($this->ParsedContent() == $this->ParagraphSummary()) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}

Apart from the fact I have changed the released code, can anyone see any other issues with this solution??

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Re: Blog - show full post

planetbrain — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:41:36 +1200

Well I struggled to get any of the previous suggestions to work and ended up with the following rough and ready solution.

class BlogEntry extends Page {
.
.
.
function ShowFullPost() {
if ( strlen($this->Content) > ( strlen($this->ParagraphSummary()) -7 ) ) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

.
.

}

This assumes (probably incorrectly) that the ParagraphSummary is simply the first paragraph wrapped in a .... tag, hence the -7

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Re: Blog - show full post

ajshort — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:16:01 +1200

I think the problem is in the fact that the FirstParagraph() function in the Text class does all sorts of fancy substrings and stuff like that - so it will return a slightly different result. I think something like this would be a better solution, as it uses the same logic checking as the FirstParagraph() function when checking for new paragraphs:

Note I havent tested it with the blog module, but the algorithim itself should work.

class BlogEntry
{

 public function ShowFullPost()
 {
 if(self::$allow_wysiwyg_editing) {
 if(strpos($this->Content, '') === false) return false;
 if(strpos($this->Content, '') == (strlen($this->Content) - 4)) return false;
 else return true;
 } else {
 if(strpos($this->Content, "\n\n") === false) return false;
 if(strpos($this->Content, "\n\n") == (strlen($this->Content) - 2)) return false;
 else return true;
 }
 }

}

Edit: fixed up formatting

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Re: Blog - show full post

planetbrain — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:41:45 +1200

That gives the same result.

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Re: Blog - show full post

simon_w — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:26:24 +1200

Try using $this->ParsedContent() instead of $this->Content()

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Re: Blog - show full post

planetbrain — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:36:58 +1200

This doesn't quite seem to work for me!

It always returns true , and displays the link

The ShowFullPost function is definitely being called, as if I reverse the true/false return values then it always returns false.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

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Re: Blog - show full post

planetbrain — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:44:42 +1200

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

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Re: Blog - show full post

SmartPlugsDesign — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:21:32 +1200

Hi-

You certainly can! I tried this...

In your BlogEntry.php file:

class BlogEntry extends Page {
   .
   .
   .
   function ShowFullPost() {
      if ($this->Content == $this->ParagraphSummary()) {
         return false;
      } else {
         return true;
      }
   }
}

In your /templates/Includes/BlogSummary.ss file:

<a href="$Link#PageComments_holder" class="comments" title="View Comments for this post">$Comments.Count comments</a>
 <% if ShowFullPost %> | <a href="$Link" class="readmore" title="Read Full Post">Read the full post</a><% end_if %>

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Blog - show full post

planetbrain — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:46:17 +1200

Does anyone know if there is a way to have the blog summary page only display the "show full post" link only if there is more to display than what is already being displayed.

many thanks

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