Playa

The server is upgraded and it seems to work..!!

BUT…

when I go to the system folder all the styling has gone?

Is there an extension that’s not PHP5 compatible maybe? Did your host move files around? Could it be a configuration parameter that changed? If you disable extensions (using the big green button on the top right of the extensions page) and your control panel is still looking strange, I’d suggest starting a new thread because it’s some other issue.

All sorted, hosts made required changes.

thanks for the help!

Slapshotw, I’m having the identical problem that Paul Cripps has, but with a strange condition. The server we’re on is running PHP 5.2.5, and I’m assured by our host that EE is being processed by that version of PHP.

Something must’ve changed on the host’s end, because when I add new related entries in any Playa field, I get output like Paul’s:

{REL[3][horses]MF4DzbvLREL}{REL[4][horses]MF4DzbvLREL}

I can restore the entries, however, if I go to the Admin > Utilities > Clear Cached Data panel, and clear Cached Relationship Entries. Then the related entries are restored and display correctly.

I looked in the cache folder to see if the permissions weren’t set on a “relationship” subfolder, but it turns out that the cached relationships aren’t stored there? Weird.

Anyway, I don’t want the owners of the site having to flush the caches every time they create some related entries. I’m wondering if anyone recognizes this problem for what it is?

Thanks for all who offer some advice… 😊

EDIT: I’m having the “Clear Cached Data doesn’t actually clear out the folders” issue. Might be an issue to take to the host?

I’m not having the same problem after upgrading to 1.6.5.

That must be what’s causing the problem, but why? Anyone with any ideas? I’m about to launch a site, upgraded and poof!

After some testing, I’m pretty sure it’s actually not related to the upgrade of 1.6.5. The upgrade did bring this on, but I don’t think it’s a bug in EE.

Still searching for the cause. Flushing the cache does not work in my cause.

{if no_related_entries} doesn’t appear to work with Playa

We have had some really odd bug’s recently with plug-in’s whilst doing upgrades.

Try switching the plug-in off / removing it.

Then clear your cache.

Then re-install the plugin.

It may help?!

We have had some really odd bug’s recently with plug-in’s whilst doing upgrades. Try switching the plug-in off / removing it. Then clear your cache. Then re-install the plugin. It may help?!

Nope…at least not for me. This is extremely frustrating. I was 1 day away from launching this site.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Following Ryan Masuga’s advice in this thread, the problem seems to have been fixed.

GREAT extension! I’m an artist and am using it on my own site. I’ve built galleries using individual entries for each piece. I then have an entry for each separate portfolio (e.g. “Landscapes”) and in that entry I use this plugin to grab the different pieces.

I did make what is for me a nice tweak. Using phpthumb, I include a tiny thumbnail for the entries. This took a slight edit to the query and not much else. See attachment…

My wish list is to be able to limit the number of entries return and randomly grab an entry (these are, of course, linked). And perhaps to be able to switch between sorting the left list by title and date. I may just write it myself. It’s always easier when someone else has done the hard work. THANK YOU!

{if no_related_entries} doesn’t appear to work with Playa

You actually don’t need it to work. Lets say you have a field called instructors which pulls the related instructors. If there is no instructors you simply have to add the following if conditional OUTSIDE of the related entries tag

{if instructors}
{related_entries id="instructors"}
{title}
{/related_entries}
{else}
no related entry
{/if}

Hope that explains…

I’m running into an issue now with special characters in the titles of my related entries. Has anyone encountered this? In my case, there is one entry with an é in the title, so Playa is throwing a REL error on that entry - but the other entries are coming out OK. Also, some entries with multiple quotes (double and single quotes) in the title seemed to be problematic.

Is there a simple stripslashes fix I can do or something? I gotta have my Playa fields!

EDIT/ADD: I tried duplicating the database and converting the data to UTF-8. That seems to help solve the issue with the funky characters braking in Playa, but it opened up so many other headaches in converting an EE database to utf8 from latin1.

Just released Playa 1.1

Included in this update:

• Fixed an issue that surfaced when an entry title has a quote in it
• Fixed the system folder path issue
• Added Leevi Graham’s LG Addon Updater
• Applied Ryan Masuga’s field formatting solution
• Other minor bug fixes and cleanup

Enjoy!