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Perch blocks empty until blog post published

Hi,

A potential bug.

I have some perch blocks set up within a blog post type template. When adding them they were appearing empty (no fields) as if they had no content.

After 30 mins of head banging I discovered once the article was published they appeared fine, but as the blog post begins life as a draft this was very confusing.
Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Hi Sarah

can we see your template and Diagnostics Report?

Rachel
Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans 0 points

5 years ago

Template:

<h1>     
        <perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" />

</h1>
<perch:if exists="image">
        <img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" width="725" height="483" crop="true" label="Image" order="2" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" />
</perch:if>


<perch:blocks>
  <perch:block type="texthighlight" label="Text Highlight">
     <br>
     <div class="description highlight">
        <perch:blog id="postDescHTMLhighlight" type="textarea" label="Post Text in Highlight Box" order="3" markdown="true" editor="markitup" size="xl autowidth" required="true" imagewidth="725" bucket="recipes" />

    </div>
  </perch:block>

  <perch:block type="text" label="Text">
    <br>
    <div class="description entry-content">
        <perch:blog id="postDescHTML2" type="textarea" label="Post Text" order="4" markdown="true" editor="markitup" size="l autowidth" required="true" imagewidth="725" bucket="recipes" />

    </div>

  </perch:block>


    <perch:block type="video2" label="Video">
        <br>
    <h2>Video</h2>

            <perch:blog id="video2" type="textarea" order="5" html="true" editor="markitup" label="Video Code" size="xs" />

  </perch:block>

</perch:blocks>



<perch:categories id="categories" set="blog" label="Categories" display-as="checkboxes" suppress="true">
    <a href="archive.php?cat=<perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" />" class="p-category">
        <perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />
    </a>
</perch:categories>



<div class="recipe-info">
<p class="recipe-date"><perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" label="Date" time="true" format="%d %B %Y" divider-before="Meta information" /></p>

</div>


<div class="description entry-content">
<perch:blog id="postDescHTML" type="textarea" label="Post Text" order="2" markdown="true" editor="markitup" size="xxl autowidth" required="true" imagewidth="725" bucket="recipes" />

</div>


    <perch:blog id="meta_description" type="textarea" label="Meta Description" suppress="true" size="xs" />
    <perch:blog id="meta_keywords" type="textarea" label="Meta Keywords" suppress="true" size="xs" />

Debug


[1] SELECT * FROM perch2_blog_posts WHERE postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2016-04-26 17:27:00' AND postSlug='testy'
[33] SELECT DISTINCT settingID, settingValue FROM perch2_settings WHERE userID=0
[6] SELECT * FROM perch2_blog_sections ORDER BY sectionTitle ASC
[1] SELECT * FROM perch2_blogs ORDER BY blogTitle ASC
Using template: /templates/blog/posts/inspiration-on-a-plate.html
Using template: /templates/blog/posts/inspiration-on-a-plate.html
Using template: /templates/blog/posts/inspiration-on-a-plate.html
[1] SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT tbl.* FROM ( SELECT idx.itemID, main.*, idx2.indexValue as sortval FROM perch2_blog_index idx JOIN perch2_blog_posts main ON idx.itemID=main.postID AND idx.itemKey='postID' JOIN perch2_blog_index idx2 ON idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey='postID' AND idx2.indexKey='_id' WHERE 1=1 AND ((idx.indexKey='postSlug' AND idx.indexValue='testy')) AND idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey=idx2.itemKey GROUP BY idx.itemID, idx2.indexValue, postID ) as tbl WHERE (postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2016-04-26 17:27:00' ) GROUP BY itemID, sortval ORDER BY sortval ASC LIMIT 0, 10
[1] SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS `count`
[1] Using template: /templates/blog/posts/inspiration-on-a-plate.html
Fetching from cache: perch_blog_post_categories3158f8bfd580b7f4eb1f48d7d85640b5
Fetching from cache: perch_blog_post_tagsb1dfa4da5e6474c5ace1c58c95f75253
Cache file not found: perch_blog_post_tagsb1dfa4da5e6474c5ace1c58c95f75253
[nil] SELECT t.* FROM perch2_blog_tags t, perch2_blog_posts_to_tags p2t WHERE t.tagID=p2t.tagID AND p2t.postID='400'
[] Using template: /templates/blog/post_tag_link.html
[8] SELECT regionKey, regionHTML FROM perch2_content_regions WHERE regionPage='/reviews-rambles/post.php' OR regionPage='*' ORDER BY regionPage DESC
Using template: /templates/search/search-form-custom.html
[1] SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT tbl.* FROM ( SELECT idx.itemID, main.*, idx2.indexValue as sortval FROM perch2_blog_index idx JOIN perch2_blog_posts main ON idx.itemID=main.postID AND idx.itemKey='postID' JOIN perch2_blog_index idx2 ON idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey='postID' AND idx2.indexKey='_id' WHERE 1=1 AND idx.itemID=idx2.itemID AND idx.itemKey=idx2.itemKey GROUP BY idx.itemID, idx2.indexValue, postID ) as tbl LEFT JOIN perch2_blog_posts_to_tags p2t ON tbl.postID=p2t.postID LEFT JOIN perch2_blog_tags t ON p2t.tagID=t.tagID WHERE ( tagSlug IN ('featured') AND postStatus='Published' AND postDateTime<='2016-04-26 17:27:00' ) GROUP BY itemID, sortval ORDER BY sortval ASC LIMIT 0, 1
[1] SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS `count`
[1] Using template: /templates/blog/post-featured.html
[1] SELECT * FROM perch2_pages WHERE pagePath='/reviews-rambles/post.php' LIMIT 1
- See more at: https://local.natuallysassy/reviews-rambles/testy#sthash.17R37RF9.dpuf
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Is Perch and the Blog App up to date? We can't tell what we are dealing with without the Diagnostics Report which makes it harder to help.
Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans 0 points

5 years ago

All up to date.


Perch: 2.8.29
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (2.8.29), assets (2.8.29), categories (2.8.29), perch_blog (5.0), perch_events (1.9.2), perch_forms (1.7), perch_mailchimp (2.0.1)
DB driver: PDO
DB tables: perch2_blog_authors (4), perch2_blog_categories (9), perch2_blog_comments (0), perch2_blog_index (9945), perch2_blog_posts (369), perch2_blog_posts_to_categories (119), perch2_blog_posts_to_tags (660), perch2_blog_sections (6), perch2_blog_tags (238), perch2_blogs (1), perch2_categories (37), perch2_category_counts (32), perch2_category_sets (1), perch2_content_index (1578), perch2_content_items (1260), perch2_content_regions (146), perch2_events (6), perch2_events_categories (1), perch2_events_to_categories (2), perch2_forms (1), perch2_forms_responses (308), perch2_mailchimp_campaigns (12), perch2_mailchimp_history (0), perch2_mailchimp_log (0), perch2_mailchimp_stats (1), perch2_mailchimp_subscribers (0), perch2_navigation (0), perch2_navigation_pages (0), perch2_page_templates (6), perch2_pages (40), perch2_resource_log (3333), perch2_resource_tags (67), perch2_resources (2943), perch2_resources_to_tags (163), perch2_settings (34), perch2_user_passwords (0), perch2_user_privileges (44), perch2_user_role_privileges (28), perch2_user_roles (2), perch2_users (3)
Users: 3
App runtimes:
<?php
    $apps_list = array(
        'content', 
        'perch_blog',
        'perch_forms',
        'categories',
        'perch_events',
    );
?>
Scheduled tasks for perch_blog: delete_spam_comments (1440 mins)
Scheduled tasks for perch_events: update_category_counts (60 mins)
Scheduled tasks for perch_mailchimp: update_list_stats (60 mins)
Editor plug-ins: markitup
H1: 37477242425c94a895eb369297b37a06
L1: 56ec3158b055fa54f4351b9384ea29b4
F1: 2edba60ed1f613d6dd804feb202456a2
headerColour: #ffffff
content_singlePageEdit: 1
helpURL:
siteURL: /
hideBranding: 1
content_collapseList: 1
lang: en-gb
update_2.4.9: done
latest_version: 2.8.15
perch_blog_post_url: /{sectionSlug}/{postSlug}
perch_blog_update: 5.0.1
headerScheme: light
perch_blog_slug_format: {postTitle}
perch_blog_akismet_key:
perch_blog_max_spam_days: 0
dashboard: 0
hide_pwd_reset: 0
content_hideNonEditableRegions: 0
content_frontend_edit: 1
perch_blog_comment_notify: 0
perch_mailchimp_secret: 1e125a17dd334c04378067ace425e021
perch_mailchimp_update: 2.0
perch_mailchimp_api_key: c1a13bceb956121cd069d5d4e643428a-us8
perch_mailchimp_list_id: 337989
perch_mailchimp_campaign_url: /mailchimp/campaign.php?s={campaignSlug}
logoPath: /perch/resources/naturally-sassy.png
update_2.6.6: done
perch_events_update: 1.8
perch_events_detail_url: /events/event.php?event={eventSlug}
update_2.8.2: done
update_2.7.10: done
on_sale_version: 2.8.29
update_2.8.29: done
PERCH_DEVELOPMENT: 10
PERCH_STAGING: 50
PERCH_PRODUCTION: 100
PERCH_DB_USERNAME: root
PERCH_DB_SERVER: localhost
PERCH_DB_DATABASE: local_naturallysassy
PERCH_DB_PREFIX: perch2_
PERCH_TZ: Europe/London
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM: hello@sarahevansdesign.co.uk
PERCH_EMAIL_FROM_NAME: Sarah Evans
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: /Users/lilone3585/Documents/Google Drive/htdocs/naturallysassy/Build/perch
PERCH_CORE: /Users/lilone3585/Documents/Google Drive/htdocs/naturallysassy/Build/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /Users/lilone3585/Documents/Google Drive/htdocs/naturallysassy/Build/perch/resources
PERCH_RESPATH: /perch/resources
PERCH_HTML5: 1
PERCH_DEBUG: 1
PERCH_RUNWAY:
PERCH_ERROR_MODE: DIE
PERCH_DATE_LONG: %d %B %Y
PERCH_DATE_SHORT: %d %b %Y
PERCH_TIME_SHORT: %H:%M
PERCH_TIME_LONG: %H:%M:%S
PERCH_RUNWAY_ROUTED:
PERCH_STRONG_PASSWORDS:
PERCH_PREVIEW_ARG: preview
PERCH_TEMPLATE_PATH: /Users/lilone3585/Documents/Google Drive/htdocs/naturallysassy/Build/perch/templates
PERCH_DEFAULT_DOC: index.php
PERCH_DEFAULT_EXT: .php
PERCH_PRODUCTION_MODE: 100
PERCH_RWD:
PERCH_HTML_ENTITIES:
PERCH_SSL:
PERCH_STRIPSLASHES:
PERCH_PROGRESSIVE_FLUSH: 1
PERCH_PARANOID:
PERCH_FORCE_SECURE_COOKIES:
PERCH_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH: 6
PERCH_MAX_FAILED_LOGINS: 10
PERCH_AUTH_LOCKOUT_DURATION: 1 HOUR
PERCH_VERIFY_UPLOADS:
PERCH_AUTH_PLUGIN:
PERCH_DB_CHARSET: utf8
PERCH_DB_PORT:
PERCH_DB_SOCKET:
PERCH_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS: 20
HOSTING SETTINGS

PHP: 5.4.30
Zend: 2.4.0
OS: Darwin
SAPI: apache2handler
Safe mode: not detected
MySQL client: 5.5.38
MySQL server: 5.5.38
Free disk space: 59.04 GB
Extensions: Core, date, ereg, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, hash, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, SPL, iconv, intl, json, ldap, mbstring, mysql, mysqli, session, PDO, pdo_sqlite, standard, posix, Reflection, Phar, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, exif, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, apache2handler, imap, gettext, mcrypt, yaz, pgsql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_mysql
GD: Yes
ImageMagick: No
PHP max upload size: 32M
PHP max form post size: 32M
PHP memory limit: 128M
Total max uploadable file size: 32M
Resource folder writeable: Yes
Session timeout: 24 minutes
Native JSON: Yes
Filter functions: Yes
Transliteration functions: Yes
HTTP_HOST: local.natuallysassy
HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive
HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS: 1
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36
HTTP_REFERER: https://local.natuallysassy/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, sdch
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.8
HTTP_COOKIE: cmsa=1; __unam=38cc876-1485f7ec49a-4745ab5-3911; PHPSESSID=8570fd5f5b04f780b6235efeb9bf9915
PATH: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache
SERVER_NAME: local.natuallysassy
SERVER_ADDR: ::1
SERVER_PORT: 80
REMOTE_ADDR: ::1
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /Users/lilone3585/Documents/Google Drive/htdocs/naturallysassy/Build
SERVER_ADMIN: you@example.com
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /Users/lilone3585/Documents/Google Drive/htdocs/naturallysassy/Build/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REMOTE_PORT: 57573
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
QUERY_STRING: extended
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/?extended
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
PHP_SELF: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT: 1461741347.84
REQUEST_TIME: 1461741347
argc: 1
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Hi Sarah - this is really odd. Your template is working perfectly for me, no blank blocks.

I wonder if it might be a caching issue of some sort. Have you recently updated from an older version?
Sarah Evans

Sarah Evans 0 points

5 years ago

Hi Drew,

I updated Perch and Blog a week or so ago. I've just tested new browser and same issue.

I'm using post types, just to be clear it's only an issue when I create a new post and it's in draft mode, fine once published. I can work around this for now in development, then see if it happens when I upload it to its staging area.
Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew 394 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

I've got pretty much the same setup for my own blog and I've never seen this. I often have posts in draft for a couple of days when working on them. So there must be something different somewhere. Would be interesting to see if it happens in staging as that would rule out any environment oddity.