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Remove cr/lf from eventDescRaw

Hi.

I'd like to improve how well my event pages work with Facebook by introducing some "proper" Open Graph tags:

<meta property="og:site_name" content="Grappenhall &amp; Thelwall Royal British Legion" />
<meta property="og:title" content="<perch:events id="eventTitle" />" />
<meta property="og:description" content="<perch:events id="eventDescRaw" />" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.gtrbl.org.uk/events-event.php?event=<perch:events id="eventSlug" />" />

Is there any way to remove cr/lf from eventDescRaw?

Thanks in advance.
Mike Knowles

Mike Knowles 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Hmm good question! I can't think of a way to do that with a template tag at the moment.
Mike Knowles

Mike Knowles 0 points

6 years ago

The fall back would be to add a new custom field for a short description. However, the people running the pages generally only add a short description anyway, so it would be preferable to adapt the existing field.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Ideally we'd have some sort of pluggable filters for this so you can use PHP functions.

The fallback would be to use skip-template to get a PHP array and then use str_replace() or similar.
Mike Knowles

Mike Knowles 0 points

6 years ago

Do you happen to have an example of that knocking about? I do use an array to get the event data:

<?php
    $opts_og = array(
        'filter'=>'eventSlug',
        'match'=>'eq',
        'value'=>perch_get('event'),
        'template'=>'events/event-og.html'
    );
?>

I'm reading the documentation but struggling to see how it all hangs together.
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

We don't have an example other than the documentation. Where are you stuck?
Mike Knowles

Mike Knowles 0 points

6 years ago

To be honest my Perch is a bit rusty; I've not done anything with it for some time.

I need to understand how the arrays work in templates so I'll read that bit and then post some details. Just writing a specification for a new project naturally powered with Perch so it will be tomorrow when I try it again.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

You'd need to use perch_events_custom(), so something like:

$event = perch_events_custom(array(
        'filter'=>'eventSlug',
        'match'=>'eq',
        'value'=>perch_get('event'),
        'skip-template'=>true
    ));
Mike Knowles

Mike Knowles 0 points

6 years ago

OK.

I'll have a play and post back if/when I get stuck.

Thanks for the replies folks. :-)