[Solved] News Module Stopped Working

[tina29]

Hi there,

Recently installed CMS made simple, and have been modifiying the look and feel of the site. Now, the news module is not working. When I click on links, they are like the examples below, but do not actually load a page:

http://www.psychlosport.co.uk/index.php ... eturnid=39

I re-installed the newsmodule, and still have the same problem. Has anyone else experienced this, is it fixable?

Thanks

Tina

[Nullig]

Please post the news tag from your page template, so we can see what parameters you're sending and also post your news detail template.

Nullig

[tina29]

Hi Nullig,

My news summary template is as follows:

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<!-- Start News Display Template -->
{if $pagecount > 1}
  <p>
{if $pagenumber > 1}
{$firstpage} {$prevpage} 
{/if}
{$pagetext} {$pagenumber} {$oftext} {$pagecount}
{if $pagenumber < $pagecount}
 {$nextpage} {$lastpage}
{/if}
</p>
{/if}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<div class="NewsSummary">

{if $entry->formatpostdate}
	<div class="NewsSummaryPostdate">
		{$entry->formatpostdate}
	</div>
{/if}

<div class="NewsSummaryLink">
	{$entry->titlelink}
</div>

<div class="NewsSummaryCategory">
	{$category_label} {$entry->category}
</div>

{if $entry->author}
	<div class="NewsSummaryAuthor">
		{$author_label} {$entry->author}
	</div>
{/if}

{if $entry->summary}
	<div class="NewsSummarySummary">
		{eval var=$entry->summary}
	</div>

	<div class="NewsSummaryMorelink">
		[{$entry->morelink}]
	</div>

{else if $entry->content}

	<div class="NewsSummaryContent">
		{eval var=$entry->content}
	</div>
{/if}

{if isset($entry->extra)}
    <div class="NewsSummaryExtra">
        {eval var=$entry->extra}
	{* {cms_module module='Uploads' mode='simpleurl' upload_id=$entry->extravalue} *}
    </div>
{/if}
{if isset($entry->fields)}
  {foreach from=$entry->fields item='field'}
     <div class="NewsSummaryField">
        {if $field->type == 'file'}
          <img src="{$entry->file_location}/{$field->value}"/>
        {else}
          {$field->name}: {eval var=$field->value}
        {/if}
     </div>
  {/foreach}
{/if}

</div>
{/foreach}
<!-- End News Display Template -->

My detail template is:

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{if $entry->formatpostdate}
	<div id="NewsPostDetailDate">
		{$entry->formatpostdate}
	</div>
{/if}
<h3 id="NewsPostDetailTitle">{$entry->title}</h3>

<hr id="NewsPostDetailHorizRule" />

{if $entry->summary}
	<div id="NewsPostDetailSummary">
		<strong>
			{eval var=$entry->summary}
		</strong>
	</div>
{/if}

{if $entry->category}
	<div id="NewsPostDetailCategory">
		{$category_label} {$entry->category}
	</div>
{/if}
{if $entry->author}
	<div id="NewsPostDetailAuthor">
		{$author_label} {$entry->author}
	</div>
{/if}

<div id="NewsPostDetailContent">
	{eval var=$entry->content}
</div>

{if $entry->extra}
	<div id="NewsPostDetailExtra">
		{$extra_label} {$entry->extra}
	</div>
{/if}

<div id="NewsPostDetailPrintLink">
	{$entry->printlink}
</div>
{if $return_url != ""}
<div id="NewsPostDetailReturnLink">{$return_url}</div>
{/if}

{if isset($entry->fields)}
  {foreach from=$entry->fields item='field'}
     <div class="NewsDetailField">
        {if $field->type == 'file'}
	  {* this template assumes that every file uploaded is an image of some sort, because News doesn't distinguish *}
          <img src="{$entry->file_location}/{$field->value}"/>
        {else}
          {$field->name}: {eval var=$field->value}
        {/if}
     </div>
  {/foreach}
{/if}

[tina29]

You can click the link at: http://www.psychlosport.co.uk/index.php

At the bottom of the page.

Thanks

Tina

[Nullig]

Can you post the call to the news module from your page template?
Do you have a separate page for detail news display?

Nullig

[tina29]

Here is the call:

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{* Start News *}
<div id="news">
<h2>News</h2>
{news number='3' detailpage='news'}</div>
{* End News *}

I was able to click on the link and see the detail of the newsarticle i had created. That has now gone...

[Nullig]

Do you have a page called "news"?

Nullig

[tina29]

Nullig,

Not that i'm aware of, at least, i havent specifically created one myself, it just stopped working where it was working before.

Is this 'missing' page the problem?

Tina

[Nullig]

Create a page called "News" with a page alias of "news", but uncheck the option to show it in the menu. In the content of the page just put:

{news}

Nullig

[Nullig]

Looks like you got it now.

Nullig

[tina29]

Nullig,

Yes, thanks for that! I created the page and it worked fine. Am I able to credit you for answering my question?

Much appretiated!

Tina

[Nullig]

No need for credit - just glad to see you got it working.

Nullig