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Ditto Filtering

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    Boby Reply #1, 17 years, 9 months ago
    Hello,

    I searched for this but I didn’t find anything... huh

    Is it possible to filter out (remove from listing) other snippets?
    For example, I have some documents with the fileDownload snippet and some other too. I don’t want them in my Ditto content, specially RSS.
    Can I removed them from Ditto’s output?

    Thank you!
    Boby
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      MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #2, 17 years, 9 months ago
      Yes, very easily. All you need to do is use this &filter=`id,baddocumentid,=` or if you want more than one ID excluded, separate each sequence in the filter parameter with a | character.
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        Boby Reply #3, 17 years, 9 months ago
        Hello Mark,
        I think I did not made myself clear enough or I’m just to dumb to understand the filter :’(

        Let me explain everything again...

        This is my Ditto call for the RSS feed:
        [!Ditto? &format=`rss` &startID=`9,18,26,38,39,40,47,51,65` &summarize=`10` &descendentDepth=`1` &multiLevel=`1` &showPublishedOnly=`1` &trunc=`0` &trunLen=`0` &commentsChunk=`FormBlogComments`!]

        Everything works fine with it.

        Some of the documents available in startID have basic text and a snippet call for FileDownload.
        Let’s say I have document 9 with this content:
        Blah Blah Blah Blah

[!FileDownload?getFolder=`downloads` &getFile=`file1.zip` &downloadGroups=`Registered Users` &showExt=`zip` &downloadCount=`1` &chkDesc=`FileDownloadInfoFile` &tplList=`FileDownload` &useHlt=`1` &evenClass=`evenrow` &oddClass=`oddrow`!]

Blah Blah Blah Blah

        And then I have document 65 with this content:
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

[!FileDownload?getFolder=`downloads` &getFile=`file2.zip` &downloadGroups=`Registered Users` &showExt=`zip` &downloadCount=`1` &chkDesc=`FileDownloadInfoFile` &tplList=`FileDownload` &useHlt=`1` &evenClass=`evenrow` &oddClass=`oddrow`!]

Nulla sagittis, mi nec elementum rhoncus, nisl enim egestas dui, eu sodales ligula metus et mi. Curabitur rhoncus eleifend odio. Phasellus justo ante, posuere at, mattis nec, posuere eu, ligula.


        I want now to have all the text of these documents (actually of all documents) available, but just remove this FileDownload snippet call from showing up. I don’t want to filter the complete document out, just a little piece of it.

        If it is possible, can you please show me an example?

        Thank you very much, and sorry for the many questions shocked grin

        Boby
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          MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #4, 17 years, 9 months ago
          That is not built into Ditto. However, if you use the same FileDownload snippet call each time, put it into a chunk and use the commentsChunk parameter to filter it out.
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            Boby Reply #5, 17 years, 9 months ago
            Ok, thank you smiley

            It’s not the same snippet call, but I will try to hack Ditto to remove the snippets from output.

            Boby
              ...my Photo Gallery on Flickr...
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              MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #6, 17 years, 9 months ago
              This function should do the trick.

                function stripSnippets($html) {
    $t = $html;
    $t = preg_replace('~\[\[(.*?)\]\]~',"",$t);	//snippet
    $t = preg_replace('~\[\!(.*?)\!\]~',"",$t);	//snippet
    return $t;
  }


              Place this in the Ditto class file and change this line:

              		$placeholders['[+summary+]'] = $summary;


              to this:

              		$placeholders['[+summary+]'] = $this->stripSnippets($summary);
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                0ad Reply #7, 17 years, 9 months ago
                Quote from: Mark at Jul 17, 2006, 02:36 AM

                Yes, very easily. All you need to do is use this &filter=`id,baddocumentid,=` or if you want more than one ID excluded, separate each sequence in the filter parameter with a | character.

                Hi

                This isnt working for me, so I tried &filter=`id,baddocumentid,!=` instead and that didn’t work either - my perimeter appears in the snippet call as &filter=`id,666,!=` (the bad document I’m trying to hide errily has the document id 666) - I wonder what I’m doing wrong...

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                  MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #8, 17 years, 9 months ago
                  After more reasearch, it looks like the 0.9.2.1 parser strips out the = or != before sending it to the snippet. Try using ,1 or ,2 instead.