mem_public_article

Manfre · 2009-09-16 00:58:29

Edit: 2010-10-03

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Original post

mem_public_article

This plugin allows for a site owner to create an article edit form on the public side of their site.

I had originally planned on ransoming this plugin, but after doing nothing with it for ~7 months I figured I might as well release it. Donations welcome

Last edited by Manfre (2010-10-03 16:20:12)

renobird · 2009-09-16 01:38:03

Manfre,

Your link is wrong there ace. ;)

Here’s the correct link

Thanks for this!

Last edited by renobird (2009-09-16 01:40:03)

jakob · 2009-09-16 22:27:45

Manfre, this looks like it might simplify the process I’d written to you about with smd_query and mem_simple_form a great deal. Thank you again.

Could it be that a key attribute – article_id – is missing from the help docs? Am I right in assuming by specifying this – or via a tag-in-tag – one can prepopulate the form with data from an existing article so that one can edit existing articles?

Manfre · 2009-09-16 22:33:56

It’s missing from the documentation. article_id can be either a number or a txp tag that will yield an article id.

jakob · 2009-09-16 22:36:28

Great, thanks for the rapid feedback. That makes the plugin a potential all-in-one solution :-)

JanDW · 2009-09-22 03:25:52

Hi Manfre,

I was doing a little test with the following code:

<txp:mem_public_article article_id="1">
<txp:mem_form_text name="Title" />
<txp:mem_form_textarea name="Body_html" />
<txp:mem_form_submit />
</txp:mem_public_article>

however i get this error on submit:

Tag error: <txp:mem_public_article article_id="1"> ->  Textpattern Notice: You must provide a table name as an attribute to mem_simple_form  on line 101

It loads the article, why does it ask me for a table when I press submit? Is it a bug or am I misunderstanding things?

Cheers – Jan

jakob · 2009-09-22 09:54:56

Tag error: <txp:mem_public_article article_id=“1”> -> Textpattern Notice: You must provide a table name as an attribute to mem_simple_form on line 101

Do you happen to have mem_simple_form also active on the same installation? If so, does the error occur when you deactivate mem_simple_form (which should not be needed for mem_public_article)?

Manfre · 2009-09-22 13:49:00

@JanDW, you have an old version (v0.1 or v0.2) of mem_simple_form activated. Either update to v0.3 or deactivate the plugin.

JanDW · 2009-09-25 03:14:51

Thanks Jakob and Manfre. I did indeed have mem_simple_form v0.1 installed, I think it is still not working as supposed, but I’ll report on that later…

Last edited by JanDW (2009-09-25 03:15:23)

PascalL · 2009-10-02 12:07:18

Same problem with mem_simple_form 0.3 here. It’s now deactivated
No more “you must provide a table name” error.

But, when I fill and submit the form, it tries to open a page which doesn’t exist. And the article is not present in the admin.

here is the content of my “public-article” form:

<txp:mem_form_text name="title" label="Title" /> <br />
<txp:mem_form_text name="section" label="Section" />  <br />
<txp:mem_form_textarea name="body" label="Body" />  <br />
<txp:mem_form_text name="author" label="Auteur" />  <br />

<txp:mem_form_submit />

could someone please post only one working example, I’m spending my afternoon trying to figure out how to use and what are the relationships between Manfre’s temptating public side plugins !

Thanks!

Last edited by PascalL (2009-10-03 21:39:56)

PascalL · 2009-10-03 21:39:28

Ok, after many trials and errors, here is a working form called by the mem_public_article tag .
All the fields are required and their absence causes errors. The “Section” field is a bit more tolerant, but will cause an error in the write tab later on.

<txp:mem_form_text name="Title" label="Title" />
<br />
<txp:mem_form_textarea name="Body" label="Contenu" /> 
<br />
<txp:mem_form_select name="textile_body" label="Balises d'article" items="Utiliser textile,Convertir les retours à la ligne,Laisser le texte tel quel" values="1,2,3" />
<br />
<txp:mem_form_select name="textile_excerpt" label="Balises de résumé" items="Utiliser textile,Convertir les retours à la ligne,Laisser le texte tel quel" values="1,2,3" />
<br />
<txp:mem_form_text name="Author" label="Auteur" default="invité" /> 
<br />
<txp:mem_form_select_section name="Section" Label="Section" />
<br />
<txp:mem_form_select name="Status" label="Statut" items="Brouillon, En attente de validation,Publié" values="1,3,4" /> 
<br />
<txp:mem_form_submit />

Now, I’d like to find a way to fill some of those fields silently, without presenting them to the users.

PascalL · 2009-10-03 22:43:50

Now, I’d like to find a way to fill some of those fields silently, without presenting them to the users.

The mem_form_secret tag does it. Here is the modified minimal form:

<txp:mem_form_text name="Title" label="Title" />
<br />
<txp:mem_form_textarea name="Body" label="Content" /> 
<br />
<txp:mem_form_text name="Author" label="Auteur" default="guest" />
<br />
<txp:mem_form_secret name="textile_body" value="1" label="textile body" />
<txp:mem_form_secret name="textile_excerpt" value="1" label="textile excerpt" />
<txp:mem_form_secret name="Section" value="articles" Label="Section" />
<txp:mem_form_secret name="Status" value="3" label="Status" /> 

<txp:mem_form_submit />

Keep in mind this doesn’t allow to reuse the same title between articles. It is probably better to fill the url_title field with a unique id. Still have to figure out how.

Last edited by PascalL (2009-10-03 22:53:34)

uli · 2009-10-04 00:47:11

Thanks for sharing what you found out, Pascal! I’m sure I can make use of this one day.

PascalL wrote:

It is probably better to fill the url_title field with a unique id. Still have to figure out how.

<txp:variable name="new_id" value='<txp:article_custom sort="ID desc" limit="1"><txp:article_id /></txp:article_custom>' />
<txp:mem_form_secret name="url_title" value='<txp:adi_calc name="new_id" add="1" />' label="url_title" />

At least something along these lines. Please note I haven’t worked yet with neither of these plugins, so the exact values or appliance may be different, but one way or another this might help you.

Last edited by uli (2009-10-04 00:51:46)

PascalL · 2009-10-04 12:54:48

Hi Uli, thanks for your idea!

same with some corrections:

<txp:variable name="new_id" value='<txp:article_custom sort="ID desc" limit="1"><txp:article_id /></txp:article_custom>' />

<txp:adi_calc name="new_id" add="1" />

<txp:mem_form_secret name="url_title" value='<txp:variable name="new_id" />' label="url_title" />

Sadly, this only works if the posted articles are set to live. txp:custom tag doesn’t provide a way to list pending, draft nor hidden articles ! At least that I know of. The consequence is that the article ID is retrieved from the latest live article, and if two outsiders post in a row, the url_title is no more unique ! And naturally I can’t let the users post live articles without moderation.

Last edited by PascalL (2009-10-04 12:56:40)

PascalL · 2009-10-04 14:30:08

Ideally I would fill the url_title field with the Title field and something after, the date for example. For that, the Title should be normalized, i.e uppercase changed to lowercase and special characters removed. I’ve found the mem_filter plugin which helps for letter-case. But that’s not sufficient (still have to test it though).
Have an idea?

P.S: sad , mem_filter is not available anymore

Last edited by PascalL (2009-10-04 14:34:11)

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