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Get the current section handle
I can't help but think this is a silly/obvious question, but I'm trying to retrieve the current section handle so I can use it as a class.
Maybe I'm going about it wrong, but {{ handle }} does ...
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How do you delete assets from a frontend form?
I am creating a proof of concept for a client in Craft where the client's customers can manage projects from the frontend of a Craft install.
I have a frontend form working correctly for creating a ...
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Detecting if page is a 'category' or 'entry'
Is there another way of detecting if a page is an 'entry' or a 'category' than the following? Maybe some global variable that I do not know of?
{% if entry is defined %}
<!-- Code here -->
{% ...
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Exclude multiple entries by their IDs
I have a structure people that I need to grab entries from. However, I need to exclude certain entries as some are already displayed on the page in a different manner.
I know that you can exclude a ...
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Get entry index - structure not channel
I want to display the current entry's index - like in this post Get entry index.
However my entries are in a structure section type not a channel, so they are not ordered by date.
Is is possible to ...
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How do you delete entries from a frontend form?
Part 2 of a 3 part question:
I am creating a proof of concept for a client in Craft where the client's customers can manage projects from the frontend of a Craft install.
I have a frontend form ...
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Display entry post date
How do I display my entry post date, formated as "May 24, 2015"?
I know this is a very basic question, but I can never find these easy answers in either the Craft or Twig documentation.
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Does anyone have a working example of frontend form with multiple file upload, drag & drop etc?
I'm trying to create a frontend entry form for a logged in user, with a field to upload multiple assets to that entry.
I've tried using the Jquery FileUpload plugin, but can't seem to get that working....
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Programmatically update entry field
I'm trying to update an entry's field value from a Craft plugin. First I was trying to just update the attributes of the entry like so:
$entry->getContent()->setAttributes(array(
'metaStatus' ...
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id: 'not' with variable
i think the following code shows the problem:
{% for entry in craft.entries({ section: 'news', limit: 2, **id: not this_id** }) %}
the big one doesn't work in this way. Has anyone an idea?
The ...
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Get dropdown / checkbox / multiselect field values on frontend submit
I would like to allow registered users to submit entries to sections. The documentation didn't mention how to get the values and labels of dropdown / checkbox / multiselect fields to show them as ...
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How many entries could the Craft database hold before it slows down?
I'm pulling in some RSS feeds using Feed Me (https://github.com/engram-design/FeedMe) and turning those in entries automatically using a cron job.
You can imagine that producing a lot of entries over ...
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Comparing 2 versions of an entry and highlighting the changes
I'm new to Craft and I'm wondering if Craft is able to display the differences within an entry in different versions.
Comparing 2 versions of the entry and highlighting the changes.
Something ...
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Is it possible to use the assets modal on the front end?
Part 3 of a 3 part question:
I am creating a proof of concept for a client in Craft where the client's customers can manage projects from the frontend of a Craft install.
A missing piece to the ...
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How do I get Matrix elements to copy their content across language Locales?
I returned to a site designed months ago, and added a second language to it.
From the beginning, this site had prominent composition of entries out of multiple elements in their matrix, with ...
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How do I allow a user to remove an uploaded asset from a front-end entry form?
I see for users, I can add a hidden field <input type="hidden" name="deleteUserPhoto" value="1" /> to remove the uploaded photo, however I need to allow this functionality for an assets field in ...
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How to add year and month to Entry URL Format
I'd like to make the Entry URL format of a channel look like this: /news/2015/06/my-slug-here
What would I need to enter into the Entry URL Format field in order to do this?
The closest I could ...
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Plugin Controller - Save Entry
I'm testing with the Foxycart Plugin to update the stock in my code.
In the FoxyCartController.php I'm able to filter through the XML feed ok and get the new Stock value but it's doesn't seem to be ...
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Restricting access to fields based on user group
I saw this thread Check user is in User Group / Custom User Permissions had an idea. Can I use USER group to limit who can see the Author dropdown on the entries form? Is this even permitted the craft ...
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Save matrix block to new entry in plugin
I have been trying two separate methods to accomplish and both keep resulting in the same errors no matter what I try.
The entry I am saving has a few fields the last of which is a matrix block (I am ...
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Entry next sibling return a deactivated entry
I got an entry template from a structured section.
With prev / next nav links at entry bottom.
But the next sibling is deactivated.
So the page return is 404 not found !
{% set prev = entry....
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Determine Entry based on URL Parameters?
I have a bit of code that checks if a page's title has been manually set in a parent template, and if it has to use that, otherwise to use entry.title. This is what that bit looks like:
{% set ...
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Entry Form - Multiple Entries & Entry Type & Parent
I'm building an MVP for a project, I'm using Craft and would like to:
Create an experiment (/experiments/)
Create multiple cages for the animals within the previous created experiment eg. 5 cages - (/...
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Get next entry based on entry type
As an extension of this question
How to link to previous/next entries in a section?
If my page is set to automatically provide a entry var in my template.
And I can simply access a field like this
...
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Use global values in the Entry URL Format field
I'm trying to use global variables in Entry URLs generated by Craft, but they seem to be empty. Not getting any errors as such, just null.
My Entry URL format looks like this:
{{siteDefaults....
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Can an entry have multiple authors?
I'm trying to create a multi user blog, where multiple authors can edit the same entry. Is this possible with Craft CMS? Is there a way to assign multiple authors to an entry? I only managed to assign ...
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Set Structure Parent when creating Entry in Plugin
I have Structure-type Section for entries and want to pragmatically populate a large list of multi-tiered entries.
I see you can create an entry like:
$entry = new EntryModel();
$entry->...
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Counter for entries to show most read Articles
How can I add a counter or something similar to my entries, so that I could loop through the most read articles?
4
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How to track entry visit?
how do I able to track the visit number of entry?
Something like track view in Expression Engine.
I have try to find but don't have any source.
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Limit a field to entries by entry type
Is it possible to have an "entries" field but only allow selection to entries of a specific "entry type" within craft?
I'm trying to use entry types as a sort of way to enable interfaces with chunks ...
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How to list all existing values for a field across site
I have a huge set of entries which have a lot of fields. Say, the entry type is a 'book' and fields are 'keywords', 'year', 'authors', etc.
Now I'm building a filter form which would allow user to ...
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Save multiple locale data via plugin
I'm trying to import data from another database using locales, but am having trouble saving the other locale after the primary locale is saved.
foreach($row as $data) {
$entry = new EntryModel();...
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Multiple URL's for news entry?
For news entries I want both URL's www.example.com/news/678 (where 678 stands for the entry id) and www.example.com/news/some-slug to load the same entry.
www.example.com/news/some-slug works fine ...
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Get draft content in front end form
I have a live entry with an 'eventTime' text field having the content '2pm'.
I also have an unpublished draft saved for that same entry with the 'eventTime' field having the content '3pm'.
I use the ...
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Creating Drafts from Frontend Entry Form
A two part question here.
When saving an entry from front-end entry form, can I designate it to save as a draft? If so, how?
If the answer to #1 is true, can I query against that to list only entries ...
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How do I get just the first entry with a 'for' loop?
I have this this code -
{% for entry in craft.entries.section('news').first() %}
<div class="container" id="featured-news">
<div class=col-md-6>
<h2 class="news-...
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How to check if entry field value is already outputted, and prevent it again?
For an event page I have the option to filter on cities and countries. Each event has entry fields in which the city and country, of which the values are outputted in a drop down list on the front end....
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Is it possible to add an entry value to the entry URL Format?
I try to compose an entry URL for artists pages with first name and last name.
Now:
artists/{slug} = artists/{{ entry.title }}
{slug} = {{ entry.title }} = Artist Last Name
What I want to add at ...
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Exclude most recent entry type from a loop
Hey everyone I am trying to output entries on the homepage. My goal is that the most recent entry is styled differently.
I achieved this by calling the loop too times:
{% for entry in craft....
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Title field character length
Is it possible to limit the title field in an entry? As with other fields I can adjust so that it only takes a certain amount of characters.
3
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How do you pull a entry field in a global out in a template
I am trying to create an easy way to make a sticky post on my blog and I am using an entry field within a global.
Not sure where to even start to pull this out in a template.
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Output values from all entries in a specific section EXCEPT those with a specific category id
Currently, this is NEARLY doing what I want except instead of the output being entries that do NOT have the id, it's output is ONLY the entries with the id. I'm not sure why, since I've included the '...
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How to display an entry on frontend with status disabled if admin is logged in?
Something like this?
{% if craft.session.isLoggedIn %}
{% set slug = craft.request.lastSegment %}
{% set entry = craft.entries.slug(slug).status(null).first %}
{% endif %}
{{ entry.title }}
...
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How can I stop a duplicate entry being created & provide feedback?
I have a booking form on my site, which when submitted creates a new entry which has two fields: an Entries field which links to a single User, and another Entries field which links to a single Event.
...
3
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How can I get the requested entry from a plugin?
If I’m accessing an entry’s URL (the 4th check in Routing), how can I get the entry that the URL matched from a plugin?
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How to show variations of a single entry? Even possible?
We are building a Commercial Real Estate site for a fairly large commercial real estate company and we're coming from an older custom-built site and there is a work flow and associated data logic we'...
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Load correct language Ajax
I'm having a problem with my ajax-loading when I'm on the english version of my page (My main language is Norwegian). I have a file named loadmore.html that I'm loading in on index.html when pressing ...
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Can a User Group Create Drafts of New Entries Only?
I'm trying to set up a workflow where I have a group of "Drafters" who can create new entries but the new entry is not published by default. I've made the following setting for this group.
However, ...
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Pre populated New Entry
Is there a way to pre-populate the 'New Entry' form in the back end?
The context here is a calendar where you can click on a day and see a list of events and have a "New Event" button. The "New ...
