I'm having trouble getting the "stock" blog functionality / template working within FUEL CMS.
I have read that it is already there, stock with the download configuration of the CMS; I have also tried creating one from scratch and uploading a 'blog' theme from a project found in GitHub. None have worked so far.
I found the blog variable at:
_variables/global.php
I have created a 'blog' controller via interpretation of (gappy) docs.
By adding the below code within it; then making a corresponding 'blog.php' view. I get nothing but a 404 error.
<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller {
public function view($page = 'home')
{
//you can acesse this http://example.com/blog/view/
}
public function new($page = 'home')
{
//you can acesse this http://example.com/blog/new/
}
}
Within the modules folder. I found this 'stock' blog controller file. But don't know how to use it? found at: /fuel/modules/blog/controller/blog.php
<?php
require_once(MODULES_PATH.'/blog/libraries/Blog_base_controller.php');
class Blog extends Blog_base_controller {
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
function _remap()
{
$year = ($this->uri->rsegment(2) != 'index') ? (int) $this->uri->rsegment(2) : NULL;
$month = (int) $this->uri->rsegment(3);
$day = (int) $this->uri->rsegment(4);
$slug = $this->uri->rsegment(5);
$limit = (int) $this->fuel->blog->config('per_page');
$view_by = 'page';
// we empty out year variable if it is page because we won't be querying on year'
if (preg_match('#\d{4}#', $year) && !empty($year) && empty($slug))
{
$view_by = 'date';
}
// if the first segment is id then treat the second segment as the id
else if ($this->uri->rsegment(2) === 'id' && $this->uri->rsegment(3))
{
$view_by = 'slug';
$slug = (int) $this->uri->rsegment(3);
$post = $this->fuel->blog->get_post($slug);
if (isset($post->id))
{
redirect($post->url);
}
}
else if (!empty($slug))
{
$view_by = 'slug';
}
// set this to false so that we can use segments for the limit
$cache_id = fuel_cache_id();
$cache = $this->fuel->blog->get_cache($cache_id);
if (!empty($cache))
{
$output =& $cache;
}
else
{
$vars = $this->_common_vars();
if ($view_by == 'slug')
{
return $this->post($slug);
}
else if ($view_by == 'date')
{
$page_title_arr = array();
$posts_date = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);
if (!empty($day)) $page_title_arr[] = $day;
if (!empty($month)) $page_title_arr[] = date('M', strtotime($posts_date));
if (!empty($year)) $page_title_arr[] = $year;
// run before_posts_by_date hook
$hook_params = array('year' => $year, 'month' => $month, 'day' => $day, 'slug' => $slug, 'limit' => $limit);
$this->fuel->blog->run_hook('before_posts_by_date', $hook_params);
$vars = array_merge($vars, $hook_params);
$vars['page_title'] = $page_title_arr;
$vars['posts'] = $this->fuel->blog->get_posts_by_date($year, (int) $month, $day, $slug);
$vars['pagination'] = '';
}
else
{
$limit = $this->fuel->blog->config('per_page');
$this->load->library('pagination');
$config['uri_segment'] = 3;
$offset = $this->uri->segment($config['uri_segment']);
$this->config->set_item('enable_query_strings', FALSE);
$config = $this->fuel->blog->config('pagination');
$config['base_url'] = $this->fuel->blog->url('page/');
//$config['total_rows'] = $this->fuel->blog->get_posts_count();
$config['page_query_string'] = FALSE;
$config['per_page'] = $limit;
$config['num_links'] = 2;
//$this->pagination->initialize($config);
if (!empty($offset))
{
$vars['page_title'] = lang('blog_page_num_title', $offset, $offset + $limit);
}
else
{
$vars['page_title'] = '';
}
// run before_posts_by_date hook
$hook_params = array('offset' => $offset, 'limit' => $limit, 'type' => 'posts');
$this->fuel->blog->run_hook('before_posts_by_page', $hook_params);
$vars['offset'] = $offset;
$vars['limit'] = $limit;
$vars['posts'] = $this->fuel->blog->get_posts_by_page($limit, $offset);
// run hook again to get the proper count
$hook_params['type'] = 'count';
$this->fuel->blog->run_hook('before_posts_by_page', $hook_params);
//$config['total_rows'] = count($this->fuel->blog->get_posts_by_page());
$config['total_rows'] = $this->fuel->blog->get_posts_count();
// create pagination
$this->pagination->initialize($config);
$vars['pagination'] = $this->pagination->create_links();
}
// show the index page if the page doesn't have any uri_segment(3)'
$view = ($this->uri->rsegment(2) == 'index' OR ($this->uri->rsegment(2) == 'page' AND !$this->uri->segment(3))) ? 'index' : 'posts';
$output = $this->_render($view, $vars, TRUE);
$this->fuel->blog->save_cache($cache_id, $output);
}
$this->output->set_output($output);
}
function post($slug = null)
{
if (empty($slug))
{
redirect_404();
}
$this->load->library('session');
$blog_config = $this->fuel->blog->config();
// run before_posts_by_date hook
$hook_params = array('slug' => $slug);
$this->fuel->blog->run_hook('before_post', $hook_params);
$post = $this->fuel->blog->get_post($slug);
if (isset($post->id))
{
$vars = $this->_common_vars();
$vars['post'] = $post;
$vars['user'] = $this->fuel->blog->logged_in_user();
$vars['page_title'] = $post->title;
$vars['next'] = $this->fuel->blog->get_next_post($post);
$vars['prev'] = $this->fuel->blog->get_prev_post($post);
$vars['slug'] = $slug;
$vars['is_home'] = $this->fuel->blog->is_home();
$antispam = md5(random_string('unique'));
$field_values = array();
// post comment
if (!empty($_POST))
{
$field_values = $_POST;
// the id of "content" is a likely ID on the front end, so we use comment_content and need to remap
$field_values['content'] = $field_values['new_comment'];
unset($field_values['antispam']);
if (!empty($_POST['new_comment']))
{
$vars['processed'] = $this->_process_comment($post);
}
else
{
add_error(lang('blog_error_blank_comment'));
}
}
$cache_id = fuel_cache_id();
$cache = $this->fuel->blog->get_cache($cache_id);
if (!empty($cache) AND empty($_POST))
{
$output =& $cache;
}
else
{
$this->load->library('form');
if (is_true_val($this->fuel->blog->config('use_captchas')))
{
$captcha = $this->_render_captcha();
$vars['captcha'] = $captcha;
}
$vars['thanks'] = ($this->session->flashdata('thanks')) ? blog_block('comment_thanks', $vars, TRUE) : '';
$vars['comment_form'] = '';
$this->session->set_userdata('antispam', $antispam);
if ($post->allow_comments)
{
$this->load->module_model(BLOG_FOLDER, 'blog_comments_model');
$this->load->library('form_builder', $blog_config['comment_form']);
$fields['author_name'] = array('label' => 'Name', 'required' => TRUE);
$fields['author_email'] = array('label' => 'Email', 'required' => TRUE);
$fields['author_website'] = array('label' => 'Website');
$fields['new_comment'] = array('label' => 'Comment', 'type' => 'textarea', 'required' => TRUE);
$fields['post_id'] = array('type' => 'hidden', 'value' => $post->id);
$fields['antispam'] = array('type' => 'hidden', 'value' => $antispam);
if (!empty($vars['captcha']))
{
$fields['captcha'] = array('required' => TRUE, 'label' => 'Security Text', 'value' => '', 'after_html' => ' <span class="captcha">'.$vars['captcha']['image'].'</span><br /><span class="captcha_text">'.lang('blog_captcha_text').'</span>');
}
// now merge with config... can't do array_merge_recursive'
foreach($blog_config['comment_form']['fields'] as $key => $field)
{
if (isset($fields[$key])) $fields[$key] = array_merge($fields[$key], $field);
}
if (!isset($blog_config['comment_form']['label_layout'])) $this->form_builder->label_layout = 'left';
if (!isset($blog_config['comment_form']['submit_value'])) $this->form_builder->submit_value = 'Submit Comment';
if (!isset($blog_config['comment_form']['use_form_tag'])) $this->form_builder->use_form_tag = TRUE;
if (!isset($blog_config['comment_form']['display_errors'])) $this->form_builder->display_errors = TRUE;
$this->form_builder->form_attrs = 'method="post" action="'.site_url($this->uri->uri_string()).'#comments_form"';
$this->form_builder->set_fields($fields);
$this->form_builder->set_field_values($field_values);
$this->form_builder->set_validator($this->blog_comments_model->get_validation());
$vars['comment_form'] = $this->form_builder->render();
$vars['fields'] = $fields;
}
$output = $this->_render('post', $vars, TRUE);
// save cache only if we are not posting data
if (!empty($_POST))
{
$this->fuel->blog->save_cache($cache_id, $output);
}
}
if (!empty($output))
{
$this->output->set_output($output);
return;
}
}
else
{
show_404();
}
}
function _process_comment($post)
{
if (!is_true_val($this->fuel->blog->config('allow_comments'))) return;
$notified = FALSE;
// check captcha
if (!$this->_is_valid_captcha())
{
add_error(lang('blog_error_captcha_mismatch'));
}
// check that the site is submitted via the websit
if (!$this->_is_site_submitted())
{
add_error(lang('blog_error_comment_site_submit'));
}
// check consecutive posts
if (!$this->_is_not_consecutive_post())
{
add_error(lang('blog_error_consecutive_comments'));
}
$this->load->module_model(BLOG_FOLDER, 'blog_users_model');
$user = $this->blog_users_model->find_one(array('fuel_users.email' => $this->input->post('author_email', TRUE)));
// create comment
$this->load->module_model(BLOG_FOLDER, 'blog_comments_model');
$comment = $this->blog_comments_model->create();
$comment->post_id = $post->id;
$comment->author_id = (!empty($user->id)) ? $user->id : NULL;
$comment->author_name = $this->input->post('author_name', TRUE);
$comment->author_email = $this->input->post('author_email', TRUE);
$comment->author_website = $this->input->post('author_website', TRUE);
$comment->author_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$comment->content = trim($this->input->post('new_comment', TRUE));
$comment->date_added = NULL; // will automatically be added
//http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_in_blogs
// check double posts by IP address
if ($comment->is_duplicate())
{
add_error(lang('blog_error_comment_already_submitted'));
}
// if no errors from above then proceed to submit
if (!has_errors())
{
// submit to akisment for validity
$comment = $this->_process_akismet($comment);
// process links and add no follow attribute
$comment = $this->_filter_comment($comment);
// set published status
if (is_true_val($comment->is_spam) OR $this->fuel->blog->config('monitor_comments'))
{
$comment->published = 'no';
}
// save comment if saveable and redirect
if (!is_true_val($comment->is_spam) OR (is_true_val($comment->is_spam) AND $this->fuel->blog->config('save_spam')))
{
if ($comment->save())
{
$notified = $this->_notify($comment, $post);
$this->load->library('session');
$vars['post'] = $post;
$vars['comment'] = $comment;
$this->session->set_flashdata('thanks', TRUE);
$this->session->set_userdata('last_comment_ip', $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$this->session->set_userdata('last_comment_time', time());
redirect($post->url);
}
else
{
add_errors($comment->errors());
}
}
else
{
add_error(lang('blog_comment_is_spam'));
}
}
return $notified;
}
// check captcha validity
function _is_valid_captcha()
{
$valid = TRUE;
// check captcha
if (is_true_val($this->fuel->blog->config('use_captchas')))
{
if (!$this->input->post('captcha'))
{
$valid = FALSE;
}
else if (!is_string($this->input->post('captcha')))
{
$valid = FALSE;
}
else
{
$post_captcha_md5 = $this->_get_encryption($this->input->post('captcha'));
$session_captcha_md5 = $this->session->userdata('comment_captcha');
if ($post_captcha_md5 != $session_captcha_md5)
{
$valid = FALSE;
}
}
}
return $valid;
}
// check to make sure the site issued a session variable to check against
function _is_site_submitted()
{
return ($this->session->userdata('antispam') AND $this->input->post('antispam') == $this->session->userdata('antispam'));
}
// disallow multiple successive submissions
function _is_not_consecutive_post()
{
$valid = TRUE;
$time_exp_secs = $this->fuel->blog->config('multiple_comment_submission_time_limit');
$last_comment_time = ($this->session->userdata('last_comment_time')) ? $this->session->userdata('last_comment_time') : 0;
$last_comment_ip = ($this->session->userdata('last_comment_ip')) ? $this->session->userdata('last_comment_ip') : 0;
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == $last_comment_ip AND !empty($time_exp_secs))
{
if (time() - $last_comment_time < $time_exp_secs)
{
$valid = FALSE;
}
}
return $valid;
}
// process through akisment
function _process_akismet($comment)
{
if ($this->fuel->blog->config('akismet_api_key'))
{
$this->load->module_library(BLOG_FOLDER, 'akismet');
$akisment_comment = array(
'author' => $comment->author_name,
'email' => $comment->author_email,
'body' => $comment->content
);
$config = array(
'blog_url' => $this->fuel->blog->url(),
'api_key' => $this->fuel->blog->config('akismet_api_key'),
'comment' => $akisment_comment
);
$this->akismet->init($config);
if ( $this->akismet->errors_exist() )
{
if ( $this->akismet->is_error('AKISMET_INVALID_KEY') )
{
log_message('error', 'AKISMET :: Theres a problem with the api key');
}
elseif ( $this->akismet->is_error('AKISMET_RESPONSE_FAILED') )
{
log_message('error', 'AKISMET :: Looks like the servers not responding');
}
elseif ( $this->akismet->is_error('AKISMET_SERVER_NOT_FOUND') )
{
log_message('error', 'AKISMET :: Wheres the server gone?');
}
}
else
{
$comment->is_spam = ($this->akismet->is_spam()) ? 'yes' : 'no';
}
}
return $comment;
}
// strip out
function _filter_comment($comment)
{
$this->load->helper('security');
$comment_attrs = array('content', 'author_name', 'author_email', 'author_website');
foreach($comment_attrs as $filter)
{
$text = $comment->$filter;
// first remove any nofollow attributes to clean up... not perfect but good enough
$text = preg_replace('/<a(.+)rel=["\'](.+)["\'](.+)>/Umi', '<a$1rel="nofollow"$3>', $text);
// $text = str_replace('<a ', '<a rel="nofollow"', $text);
$text = strip_image_tags($text);
$comment->$filter = $text;
}
return $comment;
}
function _notify($comment, $post)
{
// send email to post author
if (!empty($post->author))
{
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->from($this->fuel->config('from_email'), $this->fuel->config('site_name'));
$this->email->to($post->author->email);
$this->email->subject(lang('blog_comment_monitor_subject', $this->fuel->blog->config('title')));
$msg = lang('blog_comment_monitor_msg');
$msg .= "
".fuel_url('blog/comments/edit/'.$comment->id)."
";
$msg .= (is_true_val($comment->is_spam)) ? lang('blog_email_flagged_as_spam')."
" : '';
$msg .= lang('blog_email_published').": ".$comment->published."
";
$msg .= lang('blog_email_author_name').": ".$comment->author_name."
";
$msg .= lang('blog_email_author_email').": ".$comment->author_email."
";
$msg .= lang('blog_email_author_website').": ".$comment->author_website."
";
$msg .= lang('blog_email_author_ip').": ".gethostbyaddr($comment->author_ip)." (".$comment->author_ip.")
";
$msg .= lang('blog_email_content').": ".$comment->content."
";
$this->email->message($msg);
return $this->email->send();
}
else
{
return FALSE;
}
}
function _render_captcha()
{
$this->load->library('captcha');
$blog_config = $this->config->item('blog');
$assets_folders = $this->config->item('assets_folders');
$blog_folder = MODULES_PATH.BLOG_FOLDER.'/';
$captcha_path = $blog_folder.'assets/captchas/';
$word = strtoupper(random_string('alnum', 5));
$captcha_options = array(
'word' => $word,
'img_path' => $captcha_path, // system path to the image
'img_url' => captcha_path('', BLOG_FOLDER), // web path to the image
'font_path' => $blog_folder.'fonts/',
);
$captcha_options = array_merge($captcha_options, $blog_config['captcha']);
if (!empty($_POST['captcha']) AND $this->session->userdata('comment_captcha') == $this->input->post('captcha'))
{
$captcha_options['word'] = $this->input->post('captcha');
}
$captcha = $this->captcha->get_captcha_image($captcha_options);
$captcha_md5 = $this->_get_encryption($captcha['word']);
$this->session->set_userdata('comment_captcha', $captcha_md5);
return $captcha;
}
function _get_encryption($word)
{
$captcha_md5 = md5(strtoupper($word).$this->config->item('encryption_key'));
return $captcha_md5;
}
}
My goal is:
1.) Enable 'Blog' Module / template / functionality and understand how I did it. I find the docs lacking, I'm also new at code igniter so that could be why. I just want the most basic way to do this for now.
And 2.) I want to create a page 'from scratch' that resolves on the dashboard side as well. I have created pages in /views/ but they resolve with that whole string /fuel/application/views/page/ I want to create a normal page without all that in the URL. I have tried creating corresponding controllers even variables and haven't had much luck!!!!!!!
As of FUEL CMS 1.0 the blog module is no longer bundled with the CMS by default. You would need to do the following:
Once the blog is setup, you should be able to access it at "yourdomain.com/blog". As far as creating themes, there is a views/themes folder in the blog module which contains a default theme and also where you can setup your custom theme. Additional information about the blog module & theming can be found here http://docs.getfuelcms.com/modules/blog