Frog CMS

changing page parents (drag and drop)

OK. It’s a bit more verbose than Jonte’s succinct instructions, but it will have to do. Hope it will help future users!

changing page parents (drag and drop)

This seems to be a badly documented feature…

@jonte – ha! There is just so much wrong with that statement, I hardly know where to begin. ;)

• “SEEMs to be”? or plainly IS!
• “a BADLY DOCUMENTED feature…”? or a NON-documented feature!
• “a … FEATURE…”? or is it a quirk!

Well … another doc needing written, anyway!

2 RSS Feeds in a table?

Ah. Sorry. I thought the issue you were raising was unbalanced columns.

Is the issue the feed on the “left”? And is this your forum? If so, you can read the vBulletin docs on RSS editing and that should do you.

Othwerise, you can limit the number of times you cycle through the foreach loop. Exactly the best way to do that … I’m not sure. :) Something like this, maybe?

$i=1;
while($i<=5) {
foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item) : ?>
		<div class="item">
			<h3><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h3>
			<p><?php echo $item->get_description(); ?></p>
		</div>
<?php $$i++; } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

And you change the number in the ($i<=5) bit to limit the number of cyles. I’m sure I got something wrong in there. If someone can chip in with the better/proper/correct way of doing that, I will learn something. :)

2 RSS Feeds in a table?

Try this for your <td> code:

<td style="width:50%;border:ridge #000;padding:4px;">

and see what happens.

Form plugin with validation

@defunct – maybe you could join forces with beres. :)

CMS Design Resource

@TheJester12 – ditto what ricks said: nice site! I noticed a couple small issues, though: the Kentico page seems to pull in too many links (underneath the “score” box); and too bad the thumbnail of the lovely Trefethen Wines site (which is the Frog example!) isn’t getting pulled in (not at the moment here, anyway!).

Good work!

Asset manager plugin

@tuupola – I have noticed one bit of odd behaviour with the Assets Manager, but I finally just worked out the “consistency” factor:

• if you are editing a page that has parts, and the “Body” tab is active-after-save, then the “Assets” drop-down and items goes into the right-hand side-margin as it should;
• BUT if any other tab is active (e.g. “sidebar”, “extended”), then the assets drop-down and items go to the upper left-hand corner of the window.

Is there any way to make the Manager behave when “Body” is not the active-tab-after-save?

[Btw – I looked on Git to see if there was an “issues list” type thing, but couldn’t spot one!]

Update – here’s a pic:

Page parts - content detection

Thanks for that, cearls.

It got me thinking … The normal technique for getting a “Read more…” link to accompany a teaser is:

<?php if ($article->hasContent('extended')) echo $article->link('Continue Reading&#133;'); ?>

But maybe this is more reliable:

<?php if (strlen($article->content('extended')) > 0) echo $article->link('Continue Reading&#133;'); ?>

Frog will not accept installation info.

They don’t allow .htaccess, and they don’t allow “.tmpl” or “.template” files, either.

You can change the name of install/config.tmpl to install/config.txt, and make an adjustment in the install/index.php file, at line 42, changing:

    $config_tmpl = new Template('config.tmpl');

to:

    $config_tmpl = new Template('config.txt');

and Frog will install (that’s 0.9.4, anyway).

Not the most brilliant free hosting setup, but it can work!

Frog will not accept installation info.

I think ricks means that with a free host he thinks it unlikely that the db server will be “localhost”; I would have thought so too, but it seems this is sqweebs.com’s system.

You certainly will need a database user name and password; it looks like you have to create these when you set up the database, so those values should be known to you!

Did you remember to grant “privileges” to the “user” you created? It looks like sqweebs runs a three-stage db setup.

Also, it seems sqweebs.com doesn’t like filenames ending in “.tmpl”, so there’s an adjustment to be made there, too, if you don’t have a <root>/install/config.tmpl file.

Let us know how it goes!

Author listed in RSS feed?

Is it because Frog’s RSS output does not appear to include the “author” out-of-the-box? Here’s what I have:

	<?php foreach ($articles->children(array('limit' => 10, 'order' => 'page.created_on DESC')) as $article): ?>
	<item>
		<title><?php echo $article->title(); ?></title>
		<description><?php if ($article->hasContent('summary')) { echo $article->content('summary'); } else { echo strip_tags($article->content()); } ?></description>
		<pubDate><?php echo $article->date('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'); ?></pubDate>
		<link><?php echo $article->url(); ?></link>
		<guid><?php echo $article->url(); ?></guid>
	</item>
	<?php endforeach; ?>

Mind you … that’s NOT 0.9.5! (I know!, shock horror, etc.) I know this got updated at some point, and I’m not checking now. :)

dissecting a URL

or you can use $this->parent->slug;

But that won’t work to find the “child-of-home” pages if the current page is more than one level away, will it?

These Forums?

I know that the Vanilla forum has been made into a plugin for one or two CMS’s (I know of CMS Made Simple and Elgg integrations) that would be a good alternative to this forum, since my hunch is that it will be a long time before preparing these forums for wider release gets to the top of Philippe’s “to-do” list!! :P

So … anyone up for a Vanilla-4-Frog plugin?