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We'll be using multiple interfaces as we extend our content types. This will allow us to create different groups of functionality that will be used throughout my application.
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Great job defining some
additional interfaces.
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We'll be using those interfaces
as we extend our content types.
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So far, the site only displays posts,
but we want to show pages as well.
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Each of these content types will
have many things in common, but
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they will also have their own features.
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Let's get our site ready for
these different content types, and
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expand the post features at the same time.
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Let's start by creating a new class
in our source classes folder.
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We'll name this Posts.php.
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Our class Posts is going
to extends Collection.
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>> We'll need to change
the constructor a little.
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So let's add a new
constructor to this class.
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We're going to accept the same
parameters as the parent so
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we can call the parent constructor.
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So let's go into the collection class,
and select this constructor.
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Before the call to the parent constructor,
we need to set the entity or
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type of content we'll be using.
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This equals 'posts'.
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And then we can call
the parent::_ _ construct.
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And we'll parse the $repo,
the $id, and the $field.
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Now let's change the constructor on
the parent to use this new entity.
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We're going to add another
protective property for entity.
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And then instead of posts, we're going
to change this to ($this->entity).
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Let's change our instance calls to
make sure that this new class works.
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Posts.
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Posts.
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And let's preview.
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Great.
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Everything still works as it did before.
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We're ready to implement the new
trackable and shareable interfaces.
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Let's go back to post.
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Posts is going to implement,
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TrackableInterface and ShareableInterface.
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Now for the TrackableInterface.
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Public function getAuthor.
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To get the author name we're
going to use our repo again.
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But this time we'll be searching in users,
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$user = $this->repo->find('users,
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and then $this->current()-> author).
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This will find the user that matches
the author id of the current item.
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Because the find method returns an array,
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we need to set the user variable
to contain just the first item.
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Now we're going to check
if (empty($user->name)).
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Then we can return 'Unknown';.
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If we get past that return,
we can return the user name.
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Return $user->name;.
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Now for the public function getDateTime.
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We want to return a formatted string for
the date and time.
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We can add the format as
an optional parameter so
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that we could parse a specific
format to this method,
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even though the TrackableInterface did
not define any required parameters.
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Because this parameter is optional and
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has a default value,
it is still compatible
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with the TrackableInterface,
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$format = 'D, d M Y H: i: s').
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Now we're going to turn the current
date time into a date time object.
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$date = new
DateTime($this->current()->dateTime);.
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Then we can return the formatted string.
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Return $date->format($format);
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Now for the ShareableInterface.
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We'll need to create three methods
public function shareTwitter().
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To share on Twitter, we're going to return
the URL encoded title with a space.
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Return urlencode($this->current()->title.
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And then a space.
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Then we're going to link
to the current page.
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Http:/ /
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$_SERVER [ 'HTTP_HOST'].
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And then $_SERVER ['REQUEST_URI']
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Next we have public function shareEmail.
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To share by email, we're going to return a
string containing the subject and the body
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return 'subject =',
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urlencode($this->current()->title).
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And then &body=
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urlencode($this->shortDescription().
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Also add two line breaks "\n\nRead
more at " and the link to our site.
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And finally Facebook.
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Public function shareFacebook().
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For Facebook, we'll simply return
a link to the current page.
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Let's preview our site again, just to
make sure that we don't have any errors.
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Great, our interfaces
are implemented properly.
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We're ready to start checking for
interfaces and
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displaying the proper views.
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