Perch CMS PHP Custom Blog Filtering

Question

I'm using Perch CMS where I have a custom blog filter to display a related post from within the same category. I am using skip-template to not show the current post as one of the related posts.

Below is what I have but I'm still getting the current post showing.

Perch docs: http://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/blog/page-functions/custom/

        <?php
            $categories = perch_blog_post_categories(perch_get('s'), array(
                'skip-template'=>true,


                ));

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

            perch_blog_custom(array(

            'filter' => 'postSlug',
            'match' => 'neq',
            'value' => perch_get('s'),
            'category' => $cat_slugs,
            'count'=>3,
            'template'=>'blog/related.html',
            'section'=>'Recipes'
            ));


                }

        ?>

Print returns:

It looks quite sensible to me. Not everything from perch_content_custom is implemented in perch_blog_custom, btw. But that's mostly sorting AFAIK. What happens when you use skip_template on perch_blog_custom(.., true) and print_r() the result? Also, what has helped me debug at some times is the "all" tag: http://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/templates/show-all/ — Urs, Apr 24 '14 at 07:03
Thank you for the reply. I get : Array ( [perch_page_path] => /recipes/post.php ) — sarah3585, Apr 24 '14 at 18:24
Hmm can't be - I'll post what I mean in the reply field below — Urs, Apr 24 '14 at 20:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '14 at 20:44

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I meant something like this:

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

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

            $r = perch_blog_custom(array(

            'filter' => 'postSlug',
            'match' => 'neq',
            'value' => perch_get('s'),
            'category' => $cat_slugs,
            'count'=>3,
            'skip-template'=>true,
            'section'=>'Recipes'
            ));

            echo '<pre>';
            print_r($r);
            echo '</pre>;

            }

answered Apr 24 '14 at 20:44

Urs

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Thank you for clarifying, have pasted result in the first post. I'm not sure if that helps? It should be skipping that post – sarah3585 Apr 24 '14 at 21:24
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I've tried it at home. To me, it looks as if 'category' and 'filter' don't play along. Try uncommenting the `category` line and see if the neq-filter works and vice versa. If so, head over to the perch forum and tell Rachel and Drew... If it's really a bug/missing feature, but you need a solution quickly, you can still divide it into two steps. First: get all posts by category, skip template. Second, filter out the duplicate post manually from the array and render the result again. – Urs Apr 25 '14 at 07:12
The category filter is working fine. It seems to be the negative filter that's not playing. Even with category commented out – sarah3585 Apr 25 '14 at 07:48
with category commented out, do other filters work, like 'eq'? – Urs Apr 25 '14 at 08:18
Category commented out an filter changed to eq returns nothing. – sarah3585 Apr 25 '14 at 08:30
I've tried with some different filter types and that seems to work with category: 'filter' => 'postDateTime', 'match' => 'eqbetween', 'value' => '2014-04-22, 2014-04-24', – sarah3585 Apr 25 '14 at 09:15

Perch CMS PHP Custom Blog Filtering

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