[solved] Show excerpt of news detail if summary does not exist

[Kevin C]

I have some users who don't always enter a summary for the news items they create. Most do, but some don't. If a news item does not have a summary, the default template displays the entire article, and this looks bad on the summary page. 

I made a couple small changes to the summary template to display the summary if it exists, but if it does not, display the first 100 characters of the detail. It's a pretty simple change, but I didn't see any other examples of it in the forums, so here it is.

Here's what I modified in the summary template - additions are in red:

{if $entry->summary ne ''}

{eval var=$entry->summary}



[{$entry->morelink}]


{else if $entry->content}


{eval var=$entry->content|truncate:100}

{/if}

[katea]

Well this is quite an old post, but this no longer works!

[jgroome]

Should that ne '' be there?

[JeremyBASS]

Should that ne '' be there?

that's the smarty version of !=

[katea]

It should be a double quote ....It may of been a typo , but this is quite an important feature which I was looking for so thought I'd make people aware

{if $entry->summary ne""}
 
     {eval var=$entry->summary|truncate:100}
 

 
     {$entry->morelink}
 

{else if $entry->content}

 
     {eval var=$entry->content|truncate:100}
 
{/if}

[JeremyBASS]

actually, it should be

ne ""

that works ... It may of been a typo ... but I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention that it was wrong... As it's quite an important part.

'' or "" is valid... just in what you're doing makes the diff... but to the point

If you look to the news defaults there is this basic idea already done for you... I'd look there and work from that... Hope that helps

Cheers
Jeremy

[katea]

actually, it should be

ne ""

that works ... It may of been a typo ... but I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention that it was wrong... As it's quite an important part.

'' or "" is valid... just in what you're doing makes the diff... but to the point

If you look to the news defaults there is this basic idea already done for you... I'd look there and work from that... Hope that helps

Cheers
Jeremy

Well the single didn't work for me in this instance ... but the double did

[JeremyBASS]

actually, it should be

ne ""

that works ... It may of been a typo ... but I just wanted to bring to everyone's attention that it was wrong... As it's quite an important part.

'' or "" is valid... just in what you're doing makes the diff... but to the point

If you look to the news defaults there is this basic idea already done for you... I'd look there and work from that... Hope that helps

Cheers
Jeremy

Well the single didn't work for me in this instance ... but the double did

that's odd... I use {if $foo != ''} all the time... may-be it's do to the ne ... So this is solved yes? 

Cheers
Jeremy

[katea]

'' or "" is valid... just in what you're doing makes the diff... but to the point

If you look to the news defaults there is this basic idea already done for you... I'd look there and work from that... Hope that helps

Cheers
Jeremy

Well the single didn't work for me in this instance ... but the double did

that's odd... I use {if $foo != ''} all the time... may-be it's do to the ne ... So this is solved yes? 

Cheers
Jeremy

It is indeed.