Model: Blog post

Namespace: rbwebdesigns\HamletCMS\BlogPosts

Public properties

These are the properties of the Post class, custom modules may inject additional properties.

Property	Datatype	Notes
id	int	Primary key
title	string	255 characters max
summary	text
content	text
blog_id	int	Foreign key on the blogs table
author_id	int	Foreign key on the users table
link	string	Slug for the post URL
draft	boolean	Is the post visible to anonymous users?
timestamp	datetime	Date when the post was created
tags	string	Comma-separated list of strings
teaser_image	string	Image filename with extension but does not include directory
type	string	Content type of post (e.g. standard, video, layout)
class	string	Used with PDO::FETCH_CLASSTYPE when fetching posts from the database (system)
initialautosave	boolean	Has this post been created as an autosave (system)

Public methods

These are the standard methods of the Post class, custom modules may inject additional methods.

Signature	Return type	Notes
tags()	array	Simply splits the tags string into an array so they can be looped over
save()	boolean	Creates or updates the corresponding record in the database, returns if the operation was successful
toArray()	array	Adds all properties into an array and returns
author()	\rbwebdesigns\HamletCMS\UserAccounts\User
blog()	\rbwebdesigns\HamletCMS\Blog\Blog
relativePath()	string	Relative path/URL for the post
url()	string	Absolute URL to the post (including blog URL)
isPublic()	boolean	TRUE if post is not a draft and timestamp is in the past
isScheduled()	boolean	TRUE if timestamp is in the future
previous()	\rbwebdesigns\HamletCMS\BlogPosts\Post	Previous post when ordered chronologically, null if this is the oldest post on the blog
next()	\rbwebdesigns\HamletCMS\BlogPosts\Post	Next post when ordered chronologically, null if this is the most recent post on the blog