multi-instance and unpublished repeater items

[Jennifer Stock]

Hi. I'm working on converting a small site to run as an instance of my main PW install, so it can live in a different web root and be addressed by a different domain name.

I'm finding a few things to be different in the multi-instance environment:

• $page->field->url does not include the file name along with the path, as it does in a traditional environment
• date fields are not being translated into the specified format
• repeater events are being shown whether or not they are marked as published

Wondering if there is a pattern to what I'm seeing, and how best to address it. I've found a work-around for the first item, and the second item seems manageable, but I don't know what to do about the repeater issue.

[Gideon So]

Hi @Jennifer Stock

I am not sure I understand your situation. Do you have 2 ProcessWire sites which live in different folders. You want to access site B web data in site A? Do you set up ProcessWire multi-instances in site A?

Gideon

[Robin S]

It sounds like output formatting is off for the page in question. I haven't used multi-instance so I'm not sure if it's normal for pages retrieved this way to have output formatting off by default or if it's a bug.

But you can turn output formatting on for your page like this:

// $p is your page from the other instance
$p->of(true);
// Now output field values from $p

 

[Gideon So]

Hi @Robin S

You are right. The output formatting is off if pages are pulled from another ProcessWire instance. I am not sure whether it is intentional or a bug. For me it is not intuitive to use.

Gideon

[Jennifer Stock]

Interesting. I can't get $page->of() to work for the page as a whole, but I am able to use $page->getFormatted() successfully on individual fields.