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Having startpage mimic individual entry page
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:30 am
by pmcaleer
Hi folks,
I'm working on customizing a fresh s9y install, and am running into a bit of a problem. The site I'm working on has had daily content - only one entry per day - since its inception, and will always be this way.
With our old system, the startpage for the site was essentially a view for the last entry. The URL didn't change; it simply dipped into the archives and pulled out the last entry, comments and all.
With s9y I'm finding it difficult to duplicate this behavior. I can get the startpage to show one entry and its comments, but no matter what I do, I can't get the comment form to show (and the $COMMENTFORM variable is there without any weird 'if' block around it, in entries.tpl.)
I also need to fish out the entry's title to show it up in the page's title tag.
Essentially, I need the startpage to be less special!
Any advice? If you need further details, please ask.
Thank you!
- Paul
Re: Having startpage mimic individual entry page
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:06 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
First the easier thing, to use your entry title, edit your index.tpl file. At the top add this:
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{foreach from=$entries item="dategroup"}
{foreach from=$dategroup.entries item="entry"}
{if NOT $first_entry}
{assign var="first_entry" value=$entry}
{/if}
{/foreach}
{/foreach}
This code will put the contents of the first entry in the variable {$first_entry}, which you can later use in your <title> etc. sections, like {$first_entry.title}. You could create a custom modifier to avoice the smarty foreach-loops, but this is a tad more complicated at this point and I don't want to confuse you.
Now, as for the showing of the commentform. In your entries.tpl you need to check the {$is_single_entry} variable. This one is not set when being in the "overview". So you must put the display of the comment variable outside of any IF-Structures that only are visible when $is_single_entry is set.
In my default template it looks like:
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{if $is_single_entry and not $is_preview}
<div class="serendipity_comments serendipity_section_comments">
<br />
<a id="comments"></a>
<div class="serendipity_commentsTitle">{$CONST.COMMENTS}</div>
<div class="serendipity_center">{$CONST.DISPLAY_COMMENTS_AS}
{if $entry.viewmode eq $CONST.VIEWMODE_LINEAR}
({$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_LINEAR} | <a href="{$entry.link_viewmode_threaded}#comments" rel="nofollow">{$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_THREADED}</a>)
{else}
(<a rel="nofollow" href="{$entry.link_viewmode_linear}#comments">{$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_LINEAR}</a> | {$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_THREADED})
{/if}
</div>
<br />
{serendipity_printComments entry=$entry.id mode=$entry.viewmode}
{if $entry.is_entry_owner}
{if $entry.allow_comments}
<div class="serendipity_center">(<a href="{$entry.link_deny_comments}">{$CONST.COMMENTS_DISABLE}</a>)</div>
{else}
<div class="serendipity_center">(<a href="{$entry.link_allow_comments}">{$CONST.COMMENTS_ENABLE}</a>)</div>
{/if}
{/if}
<a id="feedback"></a>
{foreach from=$comments_messagestack item="message"}
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_important">{$message}</div>
{/foreach}
{if $is_comment_added}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_notice">{$CONST.COMMENT_ADDED}</div>
{elseif $is_comment_moderate}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_notice">{$CONST.COMMENT_ADDED}<br />{$CONST.THIS_COMMENT_NEEDS_REVIEW}</div>
{elseif not $entry.allow_comments}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_important">{$CONST.COMMENTS_CLOSED}</div>
{else}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_section_commentform">
<div class="serendipity_commentsTitle">{$CONST.ADD_COMMENT}</div>
{$COMMENTFORM}
</div>
{/if}
</div>
{/if}
and it needs to be modified to this:
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<div class="serendipity_comments serendipity_section_comments">
<br />
<a id="comments"></a>
<div class="serendipity_commentsTitle">{$CONST.COMMENTS}</div>
<div class="serendipity_center">{$CONST.DISPLAY_COMMENTS_AS}
{if $entry.viewmode eq $CONST.VIEWMODE_LINEAR}
({$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_LINEAR} | <a href="{$entry.link_viewmode_threaded}#comments" rel="nofollow">{$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_THREADED}</a>)
{else}
(<a rel="nofollow" href="{$entry.link_viewmode_linear}#comments">{$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_LINEAR}</a> | {$CONST.COMMENTS_VIEWMODE_THREADED})
{/if}
</div>
<br />
{serendipity_printComments entry=$entry.id mode=$entry.viewmode}
{if $entry.is_entry_owner}
{if $entry.allow_comments}
<div class="serendipity_center">(<a href="{$entry.link_deny_comments}">{$CONST.COMMENTS_DISABLE}</a>)</div>
{else}
<div class="serendipity_center">(<a href="{$entry.link_allow_comments}">{$CONST.COMMENTS_ENABLE}</a>)</div>
{/if}
{/if}
<a id="feedback"></a>
{foreach from=$comments_messagestack item="message"}
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_important">{$message}</div>
{/foreach}
{if $is_comment_added}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_notice">{$CONST.COMMENT_ADDED}</div>
{elseif $is_comment_moderate}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_notice">{$CONST.COMMENT_ADDED}<br />{$CONST.THIS_COMMENT_NEEDS_REVIEW}</div>
{elseif not $entry.allow_comments}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_center serendipity_msg_important">{$CONST.COMMENTS_CLOSED}</div>
{else}
<br />
<div class="serendipity_section_commentform">
<div class="serendipity_commentsTitle">{$CONST.ADD_COMMENT}</div>
{$COMMENTFORM}
</div>
{/if}
</div>
Depending on your s9y version, you might be able to use the $view variable to check if you are on a startpage, or on an detailed entry page, or in entry overview...
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:57 am
by pmcaleer
The title fix worked great - so thanks, Garvin.
However the comment form is still being stubborn. I tried a straight up copy and paste of your code and no go. Then I removed the tag from all of the logic - in fact I've removed the single entry logic altogether - to no avail. The $view variable is indeed "start", and if I do something explicit like this:
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{if $view == "start"}
{$COMMENTFORM}
{/if}
...it still doesn't show. It does still show on any archived page.
Any other thoughts or settings I need to check out? It seems like it should be something really simple.
Thanks again,
- Paul
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:57 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Oh, I'm really sorry. I just saw that indeed the commentform only gets displayed for single entries.
You will need to create/modify your config.inc.php file in your template directory.
Enter this code:
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<?php
/**
* Smarty Function: Shows a commentform
*
* @access public
* @param array Smarty parameter input array:
* id: An entryid to show the commentform for
* url: an optional HTML target link for the form
* comments: Optional array of containing comments
* data: possible pre-submitted values to the input values
* showToolbar: Toggle whether to show extended options of the comment form
* moderate_comments: Toggle whether comments to this entry are allowed
* @param object Smarty object
* @return void
*/
function showCommentForm($params, &$smarty) {
global $serendipity;
if (!isset($params['id']) || !isset($params['entry'])) {
$smarty->trigger_error(__FUNCTION__ .": missing 'id' or 'entry' parameter");
return;
}
if (empty($params['url'])) {
$params['url'] = $serendipity['serendipityHTTPPath'] . $serendipity['indexFile'] . '?url=' . $params['entry']['commURL']
}
if (!isset($params['comments'])) {
$params['comments'] = NULL;
}
if (!isset($params['data'])) {
$params['data'] = $serendipity['POST'];
}
if (!isset($params['showToolbar'])) {
$params['showToolbar'] = true;
}
if (!isset($params['moderate_comments'])) {
$params['moderate_comments'] = serendipity_db_bool($params['entry']['moderate_comments']);
}
$comment_add_data = array(
'comments_messagestack' => (isset($serendipity['messagestack']['comments']) ? (array)$serendipity['messagestack']['comments'] : array()),
'is_comment_added' => (isset($serendipity['GET']['csuccess']) && $serendipity['GET']['csuccess'] == 'true' ? true: false),
'is_comment_moderate' => (isset($serendipity['GET']['csuccess']) && $serendipity['GET']['csuccess'] == 'moderate' ? true: false)
);
$smarty->assign($comment_add_data);
serendipity_displayCommentForm(
$params['id'],
$params['url'],
$params['comments'],
$params['data'],
$params['showToolbar'],
$params['moderate_comments'],
$params['entry']
);
return true;
}
$serendipity['smarty']->register_function('showCommentForm', 'showCommentForm');
I will also commit this code as a default smarty function to serendipity 1.1.
Now you have this smarty function and you can call it inside your template like this:
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{showCommentForm id=$entry.id entry=$entry}
{$COMMENTFORM}
Does that work for you? My development environment is currently down because my server had a hardware failure and I was not able to get replacement yet, so I can't test this currently.
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:45 pm
by pmcaleer
It works!
Note, though, that in this block of code:
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if (empty($params['url'])) {
$params['url'] = $serendipity['serendipityHTTPPath'] . $serendipity['indexFile'] . '?url=' . $params['entry']['commURL']
}
...there's a missing semicolon at the very end
This was throwing me for a loop at first!
Your help is very, very much appreciated. Thank you!
- Paul
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:54 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Yes, just after posting I noticed that as well and forget to edit the code here!
Great to hear it works! Have fun with serendipity!
Best regards,
Garvin