Revolution Blog Tutorial

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hald Reply #41, 13 years, 1 month ago

When I create a blog template by copying from the tut, only changing the head and foot,
I get the following error when I try to open the page;

Fatal error: Call to undefined method modX::escape() in C:\xampp\htdocs\core\cache\elements\modsnippet\12.include.cache.php on line 244

What could be causing this error?

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hald Reply #42, 13 years, 1 month ago

Never mind.

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hald Reply #43, 13 years ago

I finally got the BlogPostTemplate working, but only after a long time trouble-shooting problems.
The code in the tutorial, only worked with calls to MODx tags as;

<h2 class="title"><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]">[[+pagetitle]]</a></h2>

but nowhere else. I was getting blank post pages. For grins I changed the + to * in all the calls;

 <h2 class="title">[[*pagetitle]]</h2>

and BINGO! Everything now worked! I don’t understand why, it just works. So I have 2 chunks, one called "blogPost" as shown in the tutorial that only displays the introtext, and one I call "blogPostFull" called only by new comment pages via BlogPostTemplate that shows the entire post.
This is how my customized post now displays when called by the blog home page via "Read more" and by clicking on "New Posts" in the sidebar ;

<!-- blogPostFull; 18 APR 2011 -->
   
<div class="dateBox">

    <div class="smallCalendar">
        <div class="dateMonth">[[*publishedon:strtotime:date=`%b`]]</div>
        <div class="dateDay">[[*publishedon:strtotime:date=`%d`]]</div>
        <div class="dateYear">[[*publishedon:strtotime:date=`%Y`]]</div>
    </div>
</div>	

    <h2 class="title">[[*pagetitle]]</h2>
			
<div class="post-body">
     [[*content]]
</div> 	
<div class="post-footer">
            <p class="postmeta">               
            <a href="[[~[[*id]]]]#comments" class="comments">
            Comments ([[!QuipCount? &thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`]])</a>|
            Tags: [[*tags:notempty=`[[!tolinks? &items=`[[*tags]]` &key=`tag` &target=`2`]]`]]           
            </p>	
        </div> <!-- end of post-footer -->

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digitalmaster Reply #44, 12 years, 11 months ago

This might help someone in the future:

I just spend about 2days trying to figure out why i couldn’t get my blog home to display anything. after i double checked everything and went through almost every blog related post on this site.. I finally decided to just start over. So of-course the first thing to do is install all the packages. So i un-installed them first and reinstalled all again..

Just as i was about to remove all the chunks and other resources i said "let me see wt that did".. and PRESTO.. everything was perfect all of a sudden

May be because i just updated to the latest version of Revo.

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rrswans Reply #45, 12 years, 7 months ago

Hi I was able to get my blog working with this tutorial. Being new to modx, I am having one little problem that is driving me crazy because it seems like and easy thing to implement, but I can not get it working.

I have a tag system set up. The links all work. For example lets say the user clicks on a tag called "babies". The result is a page listing of all posts tagged "babies". Great, but I want to create an <h2> tag at the top of the page that also says "babies" so the user knows what the query was. How do I do this?

this is what the end of my urls look like:/tag-and-archive-page/?tag=babies&key=tags

tag-and-archive-page is my target that is set up like the tutorial. How can I have this page dynamically print the quired tag at the top of the page in an H2 tag?

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rrswans Reply #46, 12 years, 7 months ago

got the answer from Charless here is is if anyone wants it

harless Reply #2, 13 min ago

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You could create a very simple snippet that would simply output the tag value when the key/value pair for tags is present in the query string.

Vary basic snippet (ex snippet name: dyntagtitle):

//-- Get all request string key/value pairs
$s = $_REQUEST;
 
 
 
if($s['key'] == 'tags'){
  return $s['tag'];
} else {
 return false;
}

Then on the page template simply put the snippet call where you want it to be displayed:

[[!dyntagtitle]]

cheers

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jonleverrier Reply #47, 12 years ago

Just to let you know that the dyntagtitle snippet no longer works in the latest version of Revolution. Damit!