Archive not showing previous entries

[neil]

Hi,

I have just embedded serendipity into the following site using the wrapper method:

www.invidion.co.uk/financial_monkey.php

While everything seems to be working smoothly, I noticed a problem with the Archives.

I set the index page to show the last 3 entries.

However, if I click on the archive from a previous day or from the Archives sidebar entry, it just brings up the lastest three entries.

If I click on 'next page', it still shows the last 3 entries.

What I did notice when I clicked the 'next page' links was that the URL kept growing: i.e.

http://www.invidion.co.uk/financial_mon ... P2/P2.html

click another couple of times and it is:

http://www.invidion.co.uk/financial_mon ... P2/P2.html

But it shows the same three entries.

I've tried to figure this out and look at other posts, but I'm slowly getting nowhere.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks
Neil.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This can happen if you configured the "HTTP path to serendipity" with a "" instead of "/". Can you check your path config?

Regards,
Garvin

[neil]

Hi,

I can't see anything entitled "HTTP path to serendipity"

What I have set are:

Relative Path: /financial_monkey.php?page=
Url to Blog: http://www.invidion.co.uk/financial_monkey.php?page=
Index File: wrapper.php

Are these correct ?

Rgds
Neil

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

That is wrong, the relative path must be "/".
The URL to blog must be "http://www.invidion.co.uk/"

I don't know what your "financial_monkey.php" file does, but usually you should put the name of your wrapper file into the indexFile directive, and your wrapper file must call your financial_monkey.php script.

Regards,
Garvin

[neil]

The only way I could get this to work was to include the following line:

<? include("serendipity/wrapper.php");?>

in the file financial_monkey.php in root directory

The file wrapper.php is per your code in the main site. It includes the index.php in the serendipity directory, and passes it to a variable ($blog) via output buffering, and the $blog variable is echoed in the file financial_monkey.php

I probably have got this the wrong way round. I'll investigate when I get home later tonight.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Okay, then basically you should do this:

1. Make your wrapper.php file contain this:

Code: Select all

<?php
chdir('..');
$_REQUEST['page'] = 'blog';
require 'financial_monkey.php';
?>

2. Now change your financial_monkey.php script to something like this:

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<?php
if ($_REQUEST['page'] == 'blog') {
 chdir('serendipity');
 ob_start();
 require 'index.php';
 $blog = ob_get_contents();
 ob_end_clean;
 chdir('..');
}

// ... the rest of your page flow. Put $blog where you need it
?>

HTH,
Garvin

[neil]

OK, I'm getting lost again.

If I set the relative path to '/' and the url to 'http://www.invidion.co.uk' and using your code above, all the links are to:

http://www.invidion.co.uk/archives..... and similar urls

If I set the relative path to '/serendipity/' all the links take me to the main serendipity directory, so it is then not embedded..


Aaagghhhh.

Someone must have been through this before. Are there any specific posts that are similar, as I can't seem to find them.

Rgds
Neil

[neil]

Hi,

I'm slowly getting nowhere on this.

Would it just be easier to ammed the index.tpl file in the default directory with a few additional includes (to include my own headers and footers) and run it from the main serendipity directory ?

Thanks
Neil.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I'm sorry, I think I forgot the issue that serendipity was in a "serendipity" path of your install. The "URL to blog" directive needs to point to the path where serendipity is actually installed in.

I have not tested using the embed mode of Serendipity by leaving out the real serendipity path reference; so I guess it's just not supported and you'll need to have the /serendipity/ link in your follow up pages. You can use your main url as entry point though, if you directly call your wrapper file in the main directory; that's why I suggested to put that identical file into both directories.

If you'd edit the index.tpl file, you could omit all the wrapper problems - but you'd still need to address serendipity on the path it is installed in.

Best regards,
Garvin

[neil]

OK, figured this out. (Seems to be working OK now - it is showing archived entries and displaying the XML feed output correctly).


I had to disable url-rewriting and made a couple of changes.

Because I want to run the blog as effectively just another page / section in my site (the url is a file called financial_monkey.php), I changed the financial_monkey.php file to:

<?
chdir('serendipity');
ob_start();
require ('wrapper.php');
$blog = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
chdir('..');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<HEAD><TITLE>Financial Monkey</TITLE>
<? include("scripts/toptemplate.php");?> // My header template
<? echo $blog;?>
<? include("scripts/footer.php");?> // My footer template

and all I include in wrapper.php is:

<?
require ('index.php');
?>

Despite your previous suggestions, I can only get this working if I set the relative URL to:

/financial_monkey.php?

and the URL to blog as:
http://www.invidion.co.uk/financial_monkey.php?

Have a look - it seems perfectly workable now.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, you might get problems with this way of embedding a different path and "?" query mark in the path, as several paths are constructed with the value $serendipityHTTPPath . indexFile . ?param1&param2 etc. So take a close look if everything really works. If it does, it's a great and tricky use of the config directive. )

Best regards,
Garvin

[neil]

I guess only time will tell if this is workable.

At the moment, all I need to do is post articles, allow comments and allow syndication of articles.

All of this works OK, so my inclination is to leave it be and get on with other projects.

If it does break, then I guess I'll have to go down the smarty templating route.

Anyway, many thanks for all your help on this subject.

Rgds
Neil.