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Related Blog Posts with Multiple Blogs

Hi there,

I am trying to display related articles on a blog post page, but its not working for me. I have implemented this code from another forum post

$categories = perch_blog_post_categories(perch_get('s'), 'cat_slug.html', true);


if (count($categories)) {
    $cat_slugs = array();
    foreach($categories as $cat) {
        $cat_slugs[] = $cat['catSlug'];
    }

    perch_blog_custom(array(
        'filter' => 'postSlug',
        'match' => 'neq',
        'value' => perch_get('s'),
        'category' => $cat_slugs,
        'count'=> 3,
        'blog'     => REGION,
        'template'=> 'blog/post_sidebar.html'
    ));
}

The cat_slug.html template is the following

<perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" for="catTitle" order="2" />

and my post_sidebar.html template is the following

<perch:before>
<ul class="popular-news-articles">
</perch:before>
    <li>
        <div class="popular-news-article__img">
            <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />">
                <img src="<perch:if exists="image"><perch:blog id="image" type="image" width="142" height="94" crop="true" /><perch:else />/assets/img/news/default-142x94.jpg</perch:if>" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" />
            </a>
        </div>
        <time class="c700  zeta  caps  news-date">
            <perch:blog id="postDateTime" format="%d %B %Y" />
        </time>
        <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />"><perch:blog id="postTitle" /></a>
    </li>
<perch:after>
</ul>
</perch:after>

REGION global variable

Within the perch_blog_custom code you will notice REGION

This is defined in my config file as

$explode = explode('/', $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
define('REGION', $explode[1]);

It is parsing the first part of the URL i.e

  • /en-us
  • /en-eu

My blogs are named the same (See Image below) https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/997786/2bbaefa9059778dd859412c77d90a033

Archive Page (Might Help)

What might help is, I had problems with displaying categories within Multiple Blogs on my archive page and to get around this I had to use

if (perch_get('cat')) {

    perch_blog_custom(array(
        'category'   => REGION.'/'.perch_get('cat'),
        'template'   => $template,
        'count'      => $posts_per_page,
        'sort'       => $sort_by,
        'blog'       => REGION,
        'sort-order' => $sort_order,
    ));

    $posts_displayed = true;
}

As my category path is (For Europe below and for the us it would be en-us)

  • en-eu/events/
  • en-eu/presentations/
  • en-eu/press-releases/

Errors on Post Page

For the code I had used posts do appear but they are not related in terms of the category and I get these two errors

Warning: file_put_contents(/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/resources/perch_blog.perch_blog_post_categoriesc34cd185575513f9f894f5ed8358f1c9.cache): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/addons/apps/perch_blog/PerchBlog_Cache.class.php on line 53
Call Stack
#   Time    Memory  Function    Location
1   0.0018  257904  {main}( )   ../start.php:0
2   0.1561  4340056 include( '/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php' )   ../start.php:69
3   0.6795  5567808 perch_blog_post_categories( )   ../post.php:55
4   0.6991  5677752 PerchBlog_Cache::save_static( ) ../runtime.php:292
5   0.6991  5678000 file_put_contents ( )   ../PerchBlog_Cache.class.php:53

( ! ) Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php on line 60
Call Stack
#   Time    Memory  Function    Location
1   0.0018  257904  {main}( )   ../start.php:0
2   0.1561  4340056 include( '/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php' )   ../start.php:69
- See more at: https://chico.pee/en-eu/news/2012-07-03-cleaning-and-the-environment#sthash.Bo7ykeCG.dpuf

Perch is up to date and below is my Diagnostics Report

Perch Runway: 2.8.25
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.25), assets (2.8.25), categories (2.8.25), perch_blog (5.0), perch_forms (1.8.3), perch_twitter (3.5.1)
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Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Your resources folder needs to be writable for Blog to be able to cache its output.
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

My resources folder is now writeable (Change from 755 to 777) not sure if that makes a difference though,

Some posts have the warnings of,

Warning: file_put_contents(/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/resources/perch_blog.perch_blog_post_categoriesb8a7c04b276f55537b00b29a173c7d34.cache): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/addons/apps/perch_blog/PerchBlog_Cache.class.php on line 53
Call Stack
#   Time    Memory  Function    Location
1   0.0010  257472  {main}( )   ../start.php:0
2   0.1510  4339312 include( '/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php' )   ../start.php:69
3   0.6859  5511296 perch_blog_post_categories( )   ../post.php:55
4   0.7059  5621304 PerchBlog_Cache::save_static( ) ../runtime.php:292
5   0.7059  5621552 file_put_contents ( )   ../PerchBlog_Cache.class.php:53

( ! ) Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php on line 60
Call Stack
#   Time    Memory  Function    Location
1   0.0010  257472  {main}( )   ../start.php:0
2   0.1510  4339312 include( '/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php' )   ../start.php:69
- See more at: https://chico.pee/en-eu/news/2016-02-05-a-spotless-image-at-moscow-airport#sthash.MblfgnEX.dpuf

But then other posts have

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php on line 60 Call Stack #TimeMemoryFunctionLocation 10.0009257568{main}( )../start.php:0 20.13384339800include( '/Users/Barry/Sites/chicopeesolutions/admin/templates/pages/blog/post.php' )../start.php:69 - See more at: https://chico.pee/en-eu/news/2016-02-05-hygienic-cleaning-in-qsrs-ishus-aps-kfc-denmark-franchisee#sthash.vzm7XaeH.dpuf

But even if these warnings are fixed, the articles displayed are still not related to the category.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

What do your options resolve to?

print_r(array(
        'filter' => 'postSlug',
        'match' => 'neq',
        'value' => perch_get('s'),
        'category' => $cat_slugs,
        'count'=> 3,
        'blog'     => REGION,
        'template'=> 'blog/post_sidebar.html'
    ));
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

Isn't outputting the category path

Array
(
    [filter] => postSlug
    [match] => neq
    [value] => 2016-02-05-a-spotless-image-at-moscow-airport
    [category] => Array
        (
        )

    [count] => 3
    [blog] => en-eu
    [template] => blog/post_sidebar.html
)
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

$categories is a string, so you can't loop through it.
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

So is this not possible?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

I think you probably want to use skip-template to get the data back. That, or output the string in a way you can split it programatically.
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

Ok thanks for your help. Have you an idea of how I would go about that?

Or can anyone point me in the right direction :-)
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

I thought I just did! Did you try skip-template ?
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

I've just tried this, but it's still outputting the same as before


$categories = perch_blog_post_categories(perch_get('s'), 'cat_slug.html', true);

if (count($categories)) {
    $cat_slugs = array();
    foreach($categories as $cat) {
        $cat_slugs[] = perch_blog_category($cat['catSlug'], array(
            'skip-template' => 'true',
        ));
    }

    print_r(array(
        'filter' => 'postSlug',
        'match' => 'neq',
        'value' => perch_get('s'),
        'category' => $cat_slugs,
        'count'=> 3,
        'blog'     => REGION,
        'template'=> 'blog/post_sidebar.html'
    ));
}
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

The problem is here:

$categories = perch_blog_post_categories(perch_get('s'), 'cat_slug.html', true);

try

$categories = perch_blog_post_categories(perch_get('s'), [
    'skip-template' => true,
]);
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

I now get this

Array
(
    [filter] => postSlug
    [match] => neq
    [value] => 2016-01-07-chicopee-needs-your-vote
    [category] => Array
        (
            [0] => news
        )

    [count] => 3
    [blog] => en-us
    [template] => blog/post_sidebar.html
)

But when I replace print_r with perch_blog_custom nothing at all appears.

I wonder if the category path is the issue as well?
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

Here is a post with all categories ticked



                    Array
(
    [filter] => postSlug
    [match] => neq
    [value] => 2016-01-07-chicopee-needs-your-vote
    [category] => Array
        (
            [0] => events
            [1] => case-studies
            [2] => news
        )

    [count] => 3
    [blog] => en-us
    [template] => blog/post_sidebar.html
)
Fishtank Creative

Fishtank Creative 2 points

5 years ago

This is now working by changing the category path to this

$cat_slugs = array();
foreach($categories as $cat) {
    $cat_slugs[] = REGION.'/'.$cat['catSlug'];
}

Full code is listed below

$categories = perch_blog_post_categories(perch_get('s'), [
    'skip-template' => true,
]);

if (count($categories)) {

    $cat_slugs = array();
    foreach($categories as $cat) {
        $cat_slugs[] = REGION.'/'.$cat['catSlug'];
    }

    perch_blog_custom(array(
        'filter' => 'postSlug',
        'match' => 'neq',
        'value' => perch_get('s'),
        'category' => $cat_slugs,
        'count'=> 3,
        'blog'     => REGION,
        'template'=> 'blog/post_sidebar.html'
    ));

    // print_r(array(
    //     'filter' => 'postSlug',
    //     'match' => 'neq',
    //     'value' => perch_get('s'),
    //     'category' => $cat_slugs,
    //     'count'=> 3,
    //     'blog'     => REGION,
    //     'template'=> 'blog/post_sidebar.html'
    // ));
}