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Steve Abraham
Posted: 27 November 2008 08:16 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Bit of a complicated one this…

First of all, you can see the error here:
http://www.sja.co.uk/site/archive/post/10_intel_atom_netbook/

This is a custom styled “archive” page, because I wanted to be quite particular about the URI format, so I opted not to use the standard archive/permalink options.

The /site/archive template is split up with an {if} statement as follows:

{if "{segment_3}" == "category"}

*SNIP*

{if:elseif "{segment_3}" == "post"}

*SNIP*

{if:elseif "{segment_3}" == "date"}

*SNIP*

{if:else}

*SNIP*

{/if}

Now the only bit of code I can find that affects this error in any way is not in the “post” section, even though that’s the only place the error appears, it’s actually in the “date” section and is as follows:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="posts" year="{segment_4}" month="{segment_5}" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" dynamic="off"}

In particular:

year="{segment_4}" month="{segment_5}"

If I remove those parameters the error goes away.

I’m completely at a loss here, because as you can see, if you go to the /site/archive/date, the error doesn’t appear:

http://www.sja.co.uk/site/archive/date/2008/11

I’m assuming there’s likely to be some very obvious reason for this and I’ve probably overlooked it, but I’m really scratching my head at the moment - hope you can help!

BTW, I’m running the latest version of EE (1.6.6).

Thanks!
Steve.

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Posted: 27 November 2008 09:07 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Steve, few issues here:

1) We won’t be able to see errors unless you have errors set to be visible to all visitors.  Can you just cut and paste the error instead?
2) Your variables in conditionals should not be quoted, please see Troubleshooting Conditionals
3) Without knowing the error, the only way we might help you is if you also share the template code within the conditionals to see how you are breaking things up.

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Posted: 27 November 2008 09:16 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Hi Derek,

Thanks for getting back to me.

1) Sorry, didn’t know they wouldn’t show to visitors… here are the errors:

Warning: mktime() expects parameter 6 to be long, string given in /home/steve/domains/sja.co.uk/public_html/cms/modules/weblog/mod.weblog.php on line 1842

Warning: mktime() expects parameter 6 to be long, string given in /home/steve/domains/sja.co.uk/public_html/cms/modules/weblog/mod.weblog.php on line 1843

2) Thanks, I’ve corrected that.

3) Here’s the full template:

{if segment_3 == "category"}

{embed="site/inc_header"}
<div id="page">
<p class="header">"{exp:weblog:categories weblog="posts" show="{segment_4}" style="linear" dynamic="off"}{category_name}{/exp:weblog:categories}" Archive</p>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="posts" category="{segment_4}" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" dynamic="off"}
{if no_results}
<p>Sorry, there are no results to show for this category.</p>
{/if}
<h1><a href="{path='site/archive/post/{url_title}'}">{title}</a></h1>
{summary}
<p class="details">Posted on {entry_date format="%j%S %F %Y"} in {categories backspace="1"}<a href="/site/archive/category/{category_id}">{category_name}</a>, {/categories}.</p>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div>
{embed="site/inc_footer"}

{if:elseif segment_3 == "post"}

{embed="site/inc_header"}
<div id="page">
<p class="header">Post Archive</p>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="posts" limit="1" url_title="{segment_4}" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" dynamic="off"}
{if no_results}
<p>Uh oh, something's gone wrong - can't find the post!</p>
{/if}
<h1>{title}</h1>
{body}
<p class="details">Posted on {entry_date format="%j%S %F %Y"} in {categories backspace="1"}<a href="/site/archive/category/{category_id}">{category_name}</a>, {/categories}.</p>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div>
{embed="site/inc_footer"}

{if:elseif segment_3 == "date"}

{embed="site/inc_header"}
<div id="page">
<p class="header">{exp:nice_date date="{segment_4}-{segment_5}-01" format="%F %Y"} Archive</p>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="posts" year="{segment_4}" month="{segment_5}" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" dynamic="off"}
{if no_results}
<p>Sorry, there are no results to show for this category.</p>
{/if}
<h1><a href="{path='site/archive/post/{url_title}'}">{title}</a></h1>
{summary}
<p class="details">Posted on {entry_date format="%j%S %F %Y"} in {categories backspace="1"}<a href="/site/archive/category/{category_id}">{category_name}</a>, {/categories}.</p>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div>
{embed="site/inc_footer"}

{if:else}

{embed="site/inc_header"}
<div id="page">
<p class="header">Archive by date</p>
<ul>
{exp:weblog:month_links weblog="posts" dynamic="off"}
<li><a href="/site/archive/date/{year}/{month_num}">{month} {year}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:month_links}
</ul>
<p class="header">Archive by category</p>
<ul>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="posts" style="linear" dynamic="off"}
<li><a href="/site/archive/category/{category_id}">{category_name}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}
</ul>
</div>
{embed="site/inc_footer"}

{/if}

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Posted: 27 November 2008 09:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Thanks Steve.  The line numbers in those errors indicate that you’re not running the current version; what version and build are you using at present?  It can be found at the bottom of any control panel page.

As a side note, advanced conditionals with multiple statements like you have are parsed towards the end of the process, so all of your tags within them are still being parsed for each page request.  This can consume resources needlessly.  You’ll see what I mean if you turn on the Template Debugger in your Output and Debugging Preferences.  One way to avoid this is to put your tags in another template and put the embeds within your conditionals, that way only the template that has the correct tag for the request gets accessed.

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Posted: 27 November 2008 09:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hi Derek,

C&P from the bottom of the Control Panel page:

ExpressionEngine 1.6.6 - © Copyright 2003 - 2008 - EllisLab, Inc.
Script executed in 0.0994 seconds   21 SQL queries used
Build:  20081114

Thanks for the info re: conditionals/embeds - you learn something new every day!

Cheers,
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Posted: 27 November 2008 12:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Derek,

I moved the various parts of the conditional into embeds and that seems to have got rid of the error… still no idea what caused it originally though.

Cheers for your help!
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Posted: 27 November 2008 12:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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That’s the better choice, Steve; for an explanation, you could demonstrate the same issue by using the tag:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="default_site" year="foo"}

Any non-numeric value given to that parameter will trigger that.  I’m going to shift this to the bug forums - obviously the parameter will not work, but using it improperly should not result in a PHP error.

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Posted: 27 November 2008 12:45 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Just to clarify, Derek…

Am I right in formatting it as: year=”{segment_4}” month=”{segment_5}”, or should it be formatted in some other way?

Thanks,
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Posted: 27 November 2008 12:59 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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That’s fine, it will just cause that error if those segments contain non-numerical input.

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Posted: 27 November 2008 01:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Ah, the penny has just dropped - thanks Derek, I’m with you now.

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Posted: 30 November 2008 11:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Steve,

I wanted to double check to make sure that everything is up and working for you now.

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Posted: 30 November 2008 04:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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Thanks Greg, yes, it’s spot on since moving to the embedded templates - and better than that, thanks to Derek I understand where I was going wrong!

Cheers!
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cool, I’m glad Derek got you taken care of.  Closing this thread out, but don’t hesitate to post again should anything else come up!

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