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Discuss the Blog Module.

Moderators: martimiz, Sean, Ed, biapar, Willr, Ingo, swaiba

Post recent (TAGGED) blog posts on home page


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jloafs

Community Member, 15 Posts

24 January 2011 at 12:28pm

Has anyone any idea how to feature latest blog posts (in summarised form) in the sidebar of a homepage using only blog posts with a specific tag ie. "news"?

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

26 January 2011 at 9:55pm

Have a look at tutorial 2 for a general idea for how to get a set of pages - http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/tutorials/2-extending-a-basic-site#showing-the-latest-news-on-the-homepage.

For the blog module tags - the tags are stored in a txt field as a comma separated list so in your database query you can use the LIKE '%news%' to filter for just news.

function LatestNews($num=5) {
return DataObject::get("ArticlePage", "Tags LIKE '%news%' ", "Date DESC", "", $num);
}

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jloafs

Community Member, 15 Posts

26 January 2011 at 10:21pm

Hi Willr,

Just looking at this now.

I currently have the latest news set up as per that tutorial. If I make the suggested change in the HomePage.php file, what would I need to change in the HomePage.ss file?

I'm new so please bear with me.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

27 January 2011 at 4:31pm

You wouldn't need to change the template as all you're basically doing is filtering the database query (from the PHP) to reduce and entries you're including.

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jloafs

Community Member, 15 Posts

28 January 2011 at 10:49am

I must be doing something wrong.

In my php file I have:

function LatestNews($num=5) {
return DataObject::get("ArticlePage", "Tags LIKE '%news%' ", "Date DESC", "", $num);
}

In my .ss file I have:

<ul id="NewsList">
<% control LatestNews %>
<li class="newsDateTitle"><a href="$Link" title="Read more on &quot;{$Title}&quot;">$Title</a></li>
<li class="newsDateTitle">$Date.Nice</li>
<li class="newsSummary typography">$Content.FirstParagraph<a href="$Link" title="Read more on &quot;{$Title}&quot;"> More...</a></li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>

But I'm getting an error and the page doesn't work at all.

Have I missed something here?

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

30 January 2011 at 5:10pm

But I'm getting an error and the page doesn't work at all.

Posting the message (or a screenshot of the error) is much more useful. If you are getting a generic "Website Error" page then put your site into devmode. This enables full error messages.

function LatestNews($num=5) {
return DataObject::get("ArticlePage", "Tags LIKE '%news%' ", "Date DESC", "", $num);
}

If you are using the Blog then the PageType is "BlogEntry" not "ArticlePage".

The error page will have more useful messages.

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jloafs

Community Member, 15 Posts

31 January 2011 at 12:13am

Thanks for pointing that out.

Solved.

Much appreciated.

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juneallison

Community Member, 110 Posts

28 July 2011 at 8:32am

Hi,

I have a question that is related to this functionality. Or I guess an extension of this functionality. Even though I haven't tried it, I believe I understand how to implement what has been described in this thread if I wanted blog posts on my home page.

I am actually looking to put a few recent posts in a sidebox that will only appear on Blog Entry pages. (I think I can figure this part out). But I want the recent posts to only be posts that have the same tag as the blog entry that you are currently viewing. This is where I am getting stuck.

I am guessing it would use the first tag listed for the current blog entry. But I don't know what code/syntax is needed to grab the first tag associated with the post.

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!