Editing (v7+)

 

spyrou replied on Feb 16, 2012 at 3:51 pm Permalink Reply

Any help please!!!

12345j replied on Feb 16, 2012 at 4:06 pm Permalink Reply

how does it now work? does it not cut the article? cut it to 100? more details would help.

spyrou replied on Feb 16, 2012 at 4:39 pm Permalink Reply

Exactly not cut the article...

spyrou replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 5:17 am Permalink Reply

Can anyone advice me please ?

wagdi replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 5:40 am Permalink Reply

Might be a silly question but have you tried clearing the cache?

spyrou replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 6:40 am Permalink Reply

Yes I have cleared the cache files. The issue is that the "Blog Index" custom template does not truncate the article description characters...

spyrou replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 8:05 am Permalink Reply

Is this a bug of C5-5.5.1 ? Iam trying to understand. Nobody have the same problem with this template?

mkly replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 9:09 am Permalink Best Answer Reply

Ya, you might be right on this.
in /concrete/blocks/page_list/templates/blog_index.php

<div class="excerpt">
  <?php 
    $a = new Area('Main');
    $a->disableControls();
    $a->display($cobj);
  ?>
</div>

Maybe modify it to try this.

<div class="excerpt">
  <?php
    $a = new Area('Main');
    $a->disableControls();
    if($truncateChars) {
      $th = Loader::helper('text');
      ob_start();
        $a->display($cobj);
      $excerpt = ob_get_clean();
      echo $th->entities($th->shorten($excerpt,$truncateChars));
    } else {
      $a->display($cobj);
    }
  ?>
</div>

It looks like the blog_index is set to show the 'Main' Area of the blog page not the page description so I grabbed that in a buffer and cleaned and shortened it. Let me know if it works.

EDIT: updated as per @jjcdesign's comment below.

spyrou replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 10:35 am Permalink Reply

There is a fatal error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function entities() on a non-object in /home/easynetg/public_html/c5/concrete/blocks/page_list/templates/blog_index.php on line 42

this line of code is:
$textHelper->entities($textHelper->shorten($excerpt,$truncateChars));

mkly replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 10:40 am Permalink Reply

oops, that should be this.
$th->entities($th->shorten($excerpt,$truncateChars));

FYI: I'm not sure if you know this as you are new around here. But the people helping in the forums aren't concrete5 employees, we're just helping out.

spyrou replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 11:07 am Permalink Reply

Thanks a lot mkly!!!
It seems to be working properly!
The page type of this page must be only "Blog Entry"? or I can use and another type of page like "Right Sidebar" for example?

mkly replied on Feb 17, 2012 at 1:17 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks for testing it and letting me know. I'll try to wrap it up into a patch to send back to the core. It's very cool of you to do.

From the look of the code, I'm pretty sure it only looks for areas called "Main". So any page that has a "Main" I think it will take the first block from main and spit it out. You might run into trouble if the first block isn't a content block or something like that. I'd would test it out and see what happens. From what I can tell it should work.

contentwebsolutions replied on Mar 1, 2012 at 8:05 am Permalink Reply

I changed it, but for me it's still not working. Showing all content, whatever I do. Cleared cache already...
Any ideas?

Edit: I was in the wrong template folder, but still not working the way I would expect it.

If I use the given code above, just the Titles are showing, but no text content.

peverist replied on Mar 12, 2012 at 2:31 am Permalink Reply

I get the same when applying the suggested modification - no text displayed at all rather than the description truncated to the number of characters selected when editing the page list block.

Any suggestions?

jjcdesign replied on Mar 23, 2012 at 6:28 am Permalink Reply

I had the same problem but managed to solve it by adding "echo"

echo $th->entities($th->shorten($excerpt,$truncateChars));

rdownesy replied on Jul 29, 2012 at 8:52 am Permalink Reply

Thanks for this, works great now with text, but where I have a blog entry with an image at the start of my text, it also strips that out. Any idea how to prevent the image from being removed?

crldev replied on Apr 9, 2014 at 6:20 am Permalink Reply

Brilliant. Worked a treat. Thank you.

Note, mkly corrected/edited his first post so that the code there is now correct, i.e. you need the "echo".