public BlogEntryModel(Store_NewsItem ni, bool expanded = false)
{
id = ni.sn_id;
author_name = ni.User.firstName + " " + ni.User.lastName;
title = ni.title;
description = getSummary(ni);
img = ni.img;
is_draft = ni.is_draft == true;
is_featured = ni.is_featured == true;
if (ni.date_added.HasValue)
{
dateadded = ni.date_added.Value;
dateadded_short = String.Format("{0:MMMM d}", ni.date_added.Value);
}
if (expanded)
{
body_text = ni.text;
if (ni.last_modified.HasValue)
{
lastmodified = ni.last_modified.Value;
lastmodified_short = String.Format("{0:MMMM d}", ni.last_modified.Value);
}
}
}
public ActionResult UpdateBlog(BlogEntryModel update)
{
SIEBUEntities db = new SIEBUEntities();
Store_NewsItem target_entry = db.Store_NewsItem.FirstOrDefault(ni => ni.sn_id == update.id);
//if no id is given, create new blog entry
bool add_new = false;
if (target_entry == null)
{
add_new = true;
target_entry = new Store_NewsItem();
target_entry.store_id = update.store_id;
target_entry.author_id = WebSecurity.CurrentUserId;
target_entry.date_added = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(DateTime.UtcNow, TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Eastern Standard Time"));
}
target_entry.title = update.title;
target_entry.last_modified = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(DateTime.UtcNow, TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Eastern Standard Time"));
target_entry.description = update.description;
target_entry.text = update.body_text;
target_entry.is_featured = update.is_featured;
if (update.is_featured)
{
target_entry.featured_since = TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(DateTime.UtcNow, TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("Eastern Standard Time"));
}
else
{
target_entry.featured_since = null;
}
target_entry.is_draft = update.is_draft;
if (add_new)
{
db.Store_NewsItem.Add(target_entry);
db.SaveChanges();
}
//if the update is not equal to the target image
if (target_entry.img == null || !(update.img + "").Contains(target_entry.img)) //target_entry.img != update.img)
target_entry.img = update.img != null ? ImageController.UploadFile(update.img, update.store_id + "" + target_entry.sn_id) : null; //no unique file name required + "" + target_entry.last_modified.Value.ToString("ffffff")
db.SaveChanges();
return Json(target_entry.sn_id, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
//create headline using blog object
public HeadlineModel(Store_NewsItem ni)
{
title = ni.title;
image = ni.img;
body = BlogEntryModel.getSummary(ni, 500); //description unused
url = String.Format("/{0}/blog?id={1}", ni.Store.name_space, ni.sn_id);
if (ni.featured_since.HasValue) date = ni.featured_since.Value;
}
/// <summary>
/// This function takes a news item, and checks whether or not a preexisting description exists. If no description is found,
/// the body text of the blog is stripped of HTML tags, and reduced to the closest length that ends
/// on one of multiple provided delimiters.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ni"></param>
/// <param name="char_lim"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string getSummary(Store_NewsItem ni, int char_lim = 250)
{
if (ni.description != null && ni.description.Length > 0) return ni.description;
string output = ni.text;
output = Regex.Replace(output, @"<(.|\n)*?>", string.Empty);
int length = output.Length;
if (length > char_lim)
{
string[] delimiters = { ", ", ". ", "</p>" };
foreach (string delim in delimiters)
{
if (output.Contains(delim) && output.LastIndexOf(delim, char_lim) > 0)
length = (output.LastIndexOf(delim, char_lim)) + delim.Length;
}
output = output.Substring(0, length);
};
return output;
}
