blog post posting and reading finished. now just edit, sort and delete

helpers/common.js

@@ -63,11 +63,19 @@ function sendApiError(res, code, errors) {
 	});
 }
 
+// convert date to string 
+function convertDateToString(date) {
+	return date.getUTCFullYear() + '-' +
+		('0' + (date.getUTCMonth()+1)).slice(-2) + '-' +
+		('0' + date.getUTCDate()).slice(-2);
+}
+
 module.exports = {
 	sendDefault404,
 	sendApiReturn,
 	sendApi404,
 	sendApiGenericError,
 	sendApiError,
-	sendApiAuthError
+	sendApiAuthError,
+	convertDateToString
 };

models/blog-post.js

@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ file containing the model file for a blog post
 
 // imports
 const mongoose = require('mongoose');
-const postAuthor = require('./post-author').postAuthorModel;
+const common = require('../helpers/common');
+//const postAuthor = require('./post-author').postAuthorModel;
 const showdown  = require('showdown');
 const converter = new showdown.Converter();
+converter.setFlavor('github');
 
 // admin user database layout
 const blogPostSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
@@ -36,7 +38,9 @@ const blogPostSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
 		},
 		date: {
 			type: Date,
-			default: Date.now
+			default: () => {
+				return new Date(common.convertDateToString(new Date()));
+			}
 		},
 		category: {
 			type: String,
@@ -54,8 +58,8 @@ blogPostSchema.methods.getBlogPostTemplateReady = function() {
 		content: this.content,
 		title: this.name,
 		date: this.meta.date,
-		category: this.meta.category,
-		author: postAuthor.findById(this.meta.author).getPostAuthorTemplateReady()
+		category: this.meta.category/*,
+		author: postAuthor.findById(this.meta.author).getPostAuthorTemplateReady()*/
 	};
 };
 
@@ -64,10 +68,8 @@ blogPostSchema.statics.convertMarkdownToHtml = function(markdown) {
 };
 blogPostSchema.statics.getPost = function(date, urlTitle, callback) {
 	return blogPostModel.findOne({
-		meta: {
-			date,
-			urlTitle
-		}
+		'meta.date': date,
+		'meta.urlTitle': urlTitle
 	}, callback);
 };
 

routes/admin.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const passport = require('passport');
 const common = require('../helpers/common');
 const adminUserMiddleware = require('../middleware/admin-authentication');
 const adminUser = require('../models/admin-user');
+const blogPost = require('../models/blog-post');
 
 // display admin panel
 router.get('/admin', (req, res) => {
@@ -123,6 +124,56 @@ router.get('/admin/api/v1/logout', adminUserMiddleware.adminAuthenticationRequir
 	common.sendApiReturn(res, {});
 });
 
+/* 
+*	/admin/api/v1/newpost
+*
+*	posts a new blog post
+*
+*	post {
+*		content - content of the blog post in markdown
+*		title - title of the blog post
+*		author - id of the author
+*		category - category name of the blog post
+*		
+*	}
+*	return {
+*		code: http code
+*		success: boolean - true if login succesfull
+*		url: string | undefined - url of the blog post if successfull
+*		errors: Strings[messages]
+*	}
+*/
+router.post('/admin/api/v1/newpost', adminUserMiddleware.adminAuthenticationRequired, function (req, res) {
+	
+	if (!req.body) return common.sendApiGenericError(res);
+
+	const { content, title, author, category } = req.body;
+	const newBlogPost = new blogPost.blogPostModel({
+		content: blogPost.blogPostModel.convertMarkdownToHtml(content),
+		name: title,
+		meta: {
+			author,
+			category,
+			urlTitle: title
+				.trim()
+				.replace(/\s/g, '-')
+				.replace(/[^A-z0-9-]/g, '')
+				.toLowerCase()
+		}
+	});
+	
+	newBlogPost.save().then((post) => {
+		// successfull
+		common.sendApiReturn(res, {
+			url: common.convertDateToString(post.meta.date) + '/' + post.meta.urlTitle
+		});
+	}).catch((rejection) => {
+		// TODO format exception so it doesnt have a huge list of errors
+		common.sendApiError(res, 500, [rejection]);
+		return;
+	});
+});
+
 // configure api 404
 router.use('/admin/api', (req, res) => {
 	common.sendApi404(res);

routes/blog.js

@@ -12,15 +12,20 @@ const blogPostModel = require('../models/blog-post').blogPostModel;
 
 // display blog post
 router.get('/news/:date/:title', (req, res) => {
-	if (/[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{4}/.test(req.params.date) && /([a-z]|[0-9]|-)+/.test(req.params.title.toLowerCase())) {
+	// date format DD-MM-YYY
+	if (/[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}/.test(req.params.date) && /([a-z]|[0-9]|-)+/.test(req.params.title.toLowerCase())) {
 		// params are correct format
-
-		blogPostModel.getPost(req.params.date, req.params.title.toLowerCase(), (err, post) => {
+		blogPostModel.getPost(new Date(req.params.date), req.params.title.toLowerCase(), (err, post) => {
 			// error exists or no post exists with the date and name
-			if (err || !post) return common.sendDefault404(res);
+			if (err || !post) {
+				console.log('error: ' + err + ' and post: ' + post);
+				return common.sendDefault404(res);
+			}
 			
 			// render blogpost
-			res.render('post', post.getBlogPostTemplateReady());
+			res.render('post', {
+				post: post.getBlogPostTemplateReady()
+			});
 		});
 	} else {
 		// params are incorrect

views/admin.hbs

@@ -20,7 +20,22 @@
             <button>submit login</button>
         </form>
 
+        <h2>create blog post</h2>
+        <form action="/admin/api/v1/newpost" method="POST">
+            <p>content</p>
+            <textarea name="content" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea>
+            <p>category</p>
+            <input type="text" name="category">
+            <p>title</p>
+            <input type="text" name="title">
+            <p>author id - yea, authors dont work yet. just ignore</p>
+            <input type="text" name="author">
+            <button>submit login</button>
+        </form>
+        <br>    
         <a href="/admin/api/v1/check">Check if logged in</a>
+        <br>    
+        <a href="/admin/api/v1/logout">Logout</a>
 
         {{> footer }}
     </body>

views/post.hbs

@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@
         {{> navbar }}
 
         <h1>blog post</h1>
-        <p>{{ date }}</p>
-        <p>{{ category }}</p>
+        <p>{{ post.date }}</p>
+        <p>{{ post.category }}</p>
 
         <article>
-            {{{ content }}}
+            {{{ post.content }}}
         </article>
 
-        <p>{{ author.name }} - {{ author.description }}</p>
-        <img src="{{ author.image }}">
+        <!--<p>{{ author.name }} - {{ author.description }}</p>
+        <img src="{{ author.image }}">-->
 
         {{> footer }}
     </body>