Enhancements to news

neenach2002 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:03 am

I would love to see the ability to have both poster's name and an avatar for that poster in the news section.

Patricia · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:50 am

The author name will be included in the next version of CMSMS which should be out in about 1 week.

The avatar is not included, but you can achieve that by tweaking the detail template
in the News module you will simply go to the detail template in the admin panel and :

replace:

Code:

<div class="NewsDetailAuthor">
   {$entry->author}
</div>

with this:

Code:

<div class="NewsDetailAuthor">
   {$entry->author} <img src="uploads/images/authors/{$entry->author}.jpg">
</div>

you of course need to have the authors images in .jpg (with same spelling+ uppercase-lowercase) in uploads/images/authors/ (path and extension as per my above example)

You just need a week of patience

Cheers

westis · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:03 am

Patricia wrote:

The author name will be included in the next version of CMSMS which should be out in about 1 week.

Well, I think that's a bit optimistic....

It needs proper testing before the official version is released. But a beta/RC version should be out within a week, most likely.

Quote:

The avatar is not included, but you can achieve that by tweaking the detail template
in the News module you will simply go to the detail template in the admin panel and :

replace:

Code:

<div class="NewsDetailAuthor">
   {$entry->author}
</div>

with this:

Code:

<div class="NewsDetailAuthor">
   {$entry->author} <img src="uploads/images/authors/{$entry->author}.jpg">
</div>

How will that work if there is space in the author's name, but the file name can't take any space?

Patricia · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:21 pm

ok, sorry, I mistook beta with full release, I shouldn't say that fast

about space in name, yep, you are right I haven't thought of this.
I'm always a bit too optimistic

but the workaround would work

Westis, do you think a avatar should be in the users profile? I can open a feature request for that, then it would be easy to insert anyway like {user_avatar} or {user_name} or whatever from the users table.

westis · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:10 pm

Yeah, a user avatar sounds like a cool idea. Possibly even with automatic resizing, i.e. that it can create a thumbnail of the deserved size even though the original file is bigger (so that it can be used ni different sizes without html resizing).

neenach2002 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:25 am

That's great to hear!

I'm just trying to achieve something that looks similar to my old news. ;) Avatars are a must for any anime site; along with usernames.

Can't I just use {$entry->author} for the author's name then?

neenach2002 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:30 am

Patricia wrote:

The author name will be included in the next version of CMSMS which should be out in about 1 week.

The avatar is not included, but you can achieve that by tweaking the detail template
in the News module you will simply go to the detail template in the admin panel and :

replace:

Code:

<div class="NewsDetailAuthor">
   {$entry->author}
</div>

with this:

Code:

<div class="NewsDetailAuthor">
   {$entry->author} <img src="uploads/images/authors/{$entry->author}.jpg">
</div>

you of course need to have the authors images in .jpg (with same spelling+ uppercase-lowercase) in uploads/images/authors/ (path and extension as per my above example)

You just need a week of patience :)

Cheers

How about for summaries? :P

neenach2002 wrote:

That's great to hear!

I'm just trying to achieve something that looks similar to my old news. ;) Avatars are a must for any anime site; along with usernames.

Can't I just use {$entry->author} for the author's name then?

Guess I can't use it yet; I imagine I wouldn't be able to use it anywhere in news until you guys have added the author name in yet, right?

westis · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:05 pm

Quote:

Guess I can't use it yet; I imagine I wouldn't be able to use it anywhere in news until you guys have added the author name in yet, right?

Yeah, this is added in SVN and will be in the next release.

neenach2002 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:01 pm

That's great to hear!

I'll be on the lookout for it. =)

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