From 0aef171108da4e2ed36f937f8c1e089b90c24523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schommer <ingo@silverstripe.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:09:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] NEW Show "post" date and author in CMS list view for blog
 entries

---
 _config/config.yml             |  3 +++
 code/BlogLeftMainExtension.php | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 _config/config.yml
 create mode 100644 code/BlogLeftMainExtension.php

diff --git a/_config/config.yml b/_config/config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f583213
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_config/config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+LeftAndMain:
+  extensions:
+    - BlogLeftMainExtension
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diff --git a/code/BlogLeftMainExtension.php b/code/BlogLeftMainExtension.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32fa014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/code/BlogLeftMainExtension.php
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Influences the page list behaviour of blog entries in the CMS.
+ * Adds author and "post date" fields.
+ */
+class BlogLeftMainExtension extends Extension {
+	function updateListView($listView) {
+		$parentId = $listView->getController()->getRequest()->requestVar('ParentID');
+		$parent = ($parentId) ? Page::get()->byId($parentId) : new Page();
+
+		// Only apply logic for this page type
+		if($parent && $parent instanceof BlogHolder) {
+			$gridField = $listView->Fields()->dataFieldByName('Page');
+			if($gridField) {
+				// Sort by post date
+				$list = $gridField->getList();
+				$list = $list->leftJoin('BlogEntry', '"BlogEntry"."ID" = "SiteTree"."ID"');
+				$gridField->setList($list->sort('Date', 'DESC'));
+
+				// Change columns
+				$cols = $gridField->getConfig()->getComponentByType('GridFieldDataColumns');
+				if($cols) {
+					$fields = $cols->getDisplayFields($gridField);
+					$castings = $cols->getFieldCasting($gridField);
+					
+					// Add author to columns
+					$fields['Author'] = _t("BlogEntry.AU", "Author");
+					// Add post date and remove duplicate "created" date
+					$fields['Date'] = _t("BlogEntry.DT", "Date");
+					$castings['Date'] = 'SS_Datetime->Ago';
+					if(isset($fields['Created'])) unset($fields['Created']);
+					
+					$cols->setDisplayFields($fields);
+					$cols->setFieldCasting($castings);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
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