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Stop the homepage save from switching sections back on, and three more CMS fixes - #431

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Reported from a live library: the features section on the homepage was switched off, and it came back on the next save. The section was still on the public site too.

What was happening

A section's visibility is on that admin page twice: the toggle in the ordering list, which writes to the database as soon as it is clicked, and the "Visibile" checkbox inside the section's own card, which is written when the form is submitted. Nothing kept the two in step, so the natural sequence — switch a section off at the top of the page, then press Save — sent the card's value from when the page was loaded and turned the section straight back on. The toggle had worked; the save undid it.

The two controls now follow each other, in both directions, and back again when a toggle request is refused, so the page has a single answer to "is this visible" whichever control is used. Only the five sections carrying both controls were affected (features_title, latest_books_title, genre_carousel, text_content, cta); hero and the four feature cards are saved without touching is_active, which is why they never showed this.

Three more things, found while going through the rest of the CMS

An invalid field discarded every other edit, quietly. Each section is written only if (... && empty($errors)), so one bad URL anywhere on the page throws away the whole submission — and the message named the offending field and stopped there, which reads as "that field was ignored" while a visibility someone had just changed silently reverted. It now states that nothing was saved and lists what to fix. The errors were also pre-escaped and joined with <br> before a view that escapes what it is given, so a submission with two problems rendered the tag as visible text between them; they travel as plain text now.

/admin/cms answered 404. The three entry points existed only as buttons inside the settings page, so the address they all shorten to led nowhere — and a page that settings does not link (the privacy policy, anything a locale adds) could be reached only by typing its slug. There is now an index listing the homepage, the events and every content page in the active language, read from the database rather than from a fixed menu.

On a content page the heading did not line up with its own text. It sat directly in the page container while the text sat in a narrower centred column. Nobody notices while the theme centres the heading, but the editorial and command layouts align it left, and there it started about a hundred pixels further left than its first line. The heading now lives in the same column as the text.

Testing

tests/cms-admin.spec.js (new) covers the CMS the way an administrator uses it — 7 tests, all passing:

What it covers
The index answers 200 and links the homepage, the events and every page in the database
A section switched off in the list stays off when the page is saved, and the card's checkbox follows
It disappears from the public homepage, and comes back when switched on again
An invalid field saves nothing and says so, with no markup leaking into the message
Section order can be rearranged and persists
A content page saves, and its heading lines up with its text (measured, per layout)
Events can be created, edited and deleted

I checked the visibility test fails without the fix, so it is pinning the behaviour and not just passing. Heading alignment was measured on all five layouts: 0px difference from the text on the two that align left, still centred on the text on the three that centre it.

tests/full-test.spec.js: 137 passed, no regressions. PHPStan level 5 clean, locale parity across the five files, no dynamic Tailwind classes.

The local quality mirror reports one failure on this branch, emeroteca-schema-140.unit.php, which skips its migration downgrade without an opt-in environment variable and is counted as a failure in strict mode. It is unrelated to this work — it predates it on main and is fixed in #430.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Nuove funzionalità

    • Aggiunta una pagina indice per gestire contenuti, homepage, eventi e pagine CMS.
    • Le pagine non visibili mostrano un’indicazione dedicata e collegamenti a modifica e anteprima.
    • Le sezioni homepage prive di contenuti non visualizzano griglie vuote.
  • Correzioni

    • Sincronizzata la visibilità delle sezioni homepage, con ripristino automatico in caso di errore.
    • Migliorato l’allineamento dei titoli nelle pagine CMS.
    • Resi più chiari i messaggi quando il salvataggio non va a buon fine.
  • Localizzazione

    • Aggiunte traduzioni per la gestione dei contenuti in italiano, inglese, francese, tedesco e danese.

Reported from a live library: the features section was switched off, and it came
back on the next save.

A section's visibility is on that page twice. The toggle in the ordering list
writes to the database as soon as it is clicked; the "Visibile" checkbox inside
the section's own card is written when the form is submitted. Nothing kept the
two in step, so the natural sequence — switch a section off at the top of the
page, then press Save — sent the card's value from when the page was loaded and
turned the section straight back on. The toggle had worked; the save undid it.
The two controls now follow each other, in both directions and back again when
a toggle request is refused, so the page has a single answer to "is this
visible" whichever control is used. Only the five sections that carry both
controls are affected: hero and the four feature cards are saved without
touching is_active, which is why they never showed this.

Three things found while going through the rest of the CMS:

An invalid field discarded every other edit in silence. Each section is written
only `if (... && empty($errors))`, so one bad URL anywhere on the page throws
away the whole submission — and the message named the offending field and
stopped there, which reads as "that field was ignored" while a visibility
someone had just changed quietly reverted. It now says that nothing was saved,
and lists what to fix. The errors were also pre-escaped and joined with <br>
before a view that escapes what it is given, so two problems rendered with the
tag visible between them; they travel as plain text now.

/admin/cms answered 404. The three entry points existed only as buttons inside
the settings page, so the address they all shorten to led nowhere, and a page
that settings does not link — the privacy policy, anything a locale adds — could
be reached only by typing its slug. There is now an index listing the homepage,
the events and every content page in the active language, read from the database
rather than from a fixed menu.

On a content page the heading did not line up with its own text. It sat directly
in the page container while the text sat in a narrower centred column, which
nobody notices while the theme centres the heading — but the editorial and
command layouts align it left, and there it started about a hundred pixels
further left than its first line. The heading now lives in the same column as
the text: measured at 0px difference on both left-aligned layouts, and still
centred on the text in the three that centre it.

tests/cms-admin.spec.js covers the CMS as an administrator uses it: the index
and that every page in the database is linked from it, the visibility of a
section through both controls and its effect on the public homepage, the
all-or-nothing save and its message, reordering, saving a content page, the
heading alignment, and creating, editing and deleting an event. I checked the
visibility test fails without the fix.
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Il PR aggiunge l’indice amministrativo CMS per la locale corrente, sincronizza i controlli di visibilità della homepage, corregge il rendering delle feature vuote, aggiorna il layout delle pagine CMS e aggiunge test end-to-end.

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Indice amministrativo CMS
app/Controllers/CmsController.php, app/Routes/web.php, app/Views/cms/index.php, locale/*.json, tests/cms-admin.spec.js
La route /admin/cms[/] richiede l’autenticazione amministrativa. Il controller legge le pagine della locale corrente. La vista mostra homepage, eventi e pagine CMS, incluse quelle inattive. Le nuove stringhe sono disponibili nelle localizzazioni supportate.
Modifica e sincronizzazione homepage
app/Views/cms/edit-home.php, app/Controllers/CmsController.php, app/Views/frontend/home-sections/features_title.php, tests/cms-admin.spec.js
I toggle della lista e le checkbox delle schede mantengono lo stesso stato. Gli errori ripristinano entrambi i controlli. Le feature disattivate e le griglie vuote non vengono renderizzate. Gli errori di validazione indicano che nessuna modifica è stata salvata e usano · come separatore.
Pagine, layout ed eventi CMS
app/Views/frontend/cms-page.php, tests/cms-admin.spec.js
Il titolo della pagina CMS viene spostato nella colonna del contenuto. I test verificano il salvataggio, l’allineamento del titolo, il riordinamento e il ciclo di creazione, modifica ed eliminazione degli eventi.

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  participant AdminBrowser
  participant AdminAuthMiddleware
  participant CmsController
  participant MySQL
  participant CmsIndexView
  AdminBrowser->>AdminAuthMiddleware: GET /admin/cms
  AdminAuthMiddleware->>CmsController: authorize request
  CmsController->>MySQL: query cms_pages for current locale
  MySQL-->>CmsController: ordered CMS pages
  CmsController->>CmsIndexView: render CMS index
  CmsIndexView-->>AdminBrowser: return HTML
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In `@app/Views/cms/edit-home.php`:
- Around line 1135-1136: Update the change handlers around syncVisibilityField()
to capture toggle.checked before starting each request, then restore that
captured value when the request fails instead of inverting the current toggle
state. Apply the same correction to all indicated handlers and ensure the
rollback is propagated consistently through syncVisibilityField().

In `@app/Views/cms/index.php`:
- Around line 62-105: Sostituisci tutte le chiamate a HtmlHelper::e() nella view
con htmlspecialchars(..., ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'), mantenendo invariati i valori e
il contesto di output; aggiorna anche le occorrenze nel rendering di card,
pagine e relativi attributi. Rimuovi l’import di App\Support\HtmlHelper se non
resta utilizzato.

In `@tests/cms-admin.spec.js`:
- Line 92: Update every form submission in the test to wait for and click the
SweetAlert confirmation element `.swal2-confirm` after the submit button click,
including the flows represented by the repeated submission locations. Ensure
each confirmation is handled before continuing to subsequent operations.
- Line 157: Store the original title outside the individual test so it remains
available after failures, then restore it in the suite’s afterAll() hook. Update
the title-handling flow around titleInput and the existing cleanup logic while
preserving the current test behavior.
- Line 41: Update the initial environment validation in the test setup to
require E2E_ADMIN_EMAIL, E2E_ADMIN_PASS, E2E_DB_USER, E2E_DB_NAME, and
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Found on the live library this started from. Its homepage was publishing four
cards reading "Feature 1", "Feature 2", "Feature 3" and "Feature 4" — a star
icon each, no text — under the product's own default heading. The administrator
had switched the four cards off, which is what anyone does when they do not want
them, and the section drew them anyway.

$homeContent only holds the sections that are switched on, so a card that was
turned off is simply absent from it; the template looped over the four fixed
indexes and filled each gap from its own defaults, which exist for a fresh
install and read as placeholder text on a real site. It now renders the cards
that are actually there, and when none are left it does not draw the empty grid
at all — the heading and subtitle stay, because leaving them on is a separate
choice the administrator makes with its own switch.

Covered in tests/cms-admin.spec.js: four cards on the public homepage, one
switched off leaves three and no "Feature 1" anywhere in the section, all four
off leaves the section without a grid, and switching them back on brings the
real cards back. The test fails without this change.
Restore the toggle to what it was before the request, not to the negation of
whatever it holds when the answer arrives: the operator can click again while
the write is in flight, and since the card's field now follows the toggle, a
wrong restore would travel on to the form.

Escape with htmlspecialchars() in the new view. HtmlHelper::e() decodes entities
before escaping them again, so a title stored as an entity renders as the
character instead of the literal text — the project rule for app/Views is the
direct call, and the file had eight of them.

In the suite: check every environment variable it needs in one place, so a
missing password fails at the guard instead of timing out several steps later;
and capture the page title in suite state so afterAll() puts it back even when
an assertion fails before the test can.

Not changed: the reviewer also asked for a .swal2-confirm click after each
submit, per the path rule. These two forms redirect and render a flash message
instead — measured zero .swal2-popup after saving both the homepage and a
content page — so there is no dialog to confirm and nothing blocks the next step.
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fabiodalez-dev merged commit b43e8d4 into main Sep 15, 2026
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