Articles with intro

[_luki]

I've already created some sites with cmsms and know difrences between pages and news. But now, I really need to make all content as pages but some of them should have posibility to display short intro text. For better understanding I will show pages structure:

1. Start
2. Page2
3. Page4
3.1 Subpage 1
3.2 Subpage 2
3.3 Subpage 3
4. Page5

On Page4 I want to show short intro of all subpages, and I dont want to use News module for it, cause it will be a little bit akward. Subpages have normal content, its not news, in admin panel I want to sort them like pages not like news (i.e.by post date) etc.
Is there is some trick to do this in my way?

[Dr.CSS]

You can pull page content into another using CGUtilities, IIRC, to pull subpage into parent page, as far as arranging them by date.published to be at top, you would have to do something with the menu template...

[Wishbone]

..using CGUtilities, IIRC..

Do you mean CGSimpleSmarty?

[Dr.CSS]

I think I meant...

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/cgcontentutils

[_luki]

I've installed cgcontentutils but have no idea how to use it for my purpose...

[Dr.CSS]

I've never used it but just heard from another that CGSimpleSmarty works to pull content in...

[_luki]

Ok, CGSimpleSmarty looks more promising. I will try to figure sth out.

[_luki]

I've made it!
After installing CGSimpleSmarty i put in my template:

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{foreach from=$cgsimple->get_children('','',$children) item='child'}
    {if $child.show_in_menu}
        <h3>{$cgsimple->get_page_title($child.alias)}</h3>
         {cut_text text=$cgsimple->get_page_content($child.alias) lenght="110"}
        <a href="/{$child.alias}/">Read more</a>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

Tag {cut_text} is my tag, it's cutting text after x letters, code for it (put in User Defined Tag):

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$tresc =  $params['text'];
$ile = $params['lenght'];
    $licz = strlen($tresc);
    if ($licz>=$ile)
    {    
        $tnij = substr($tresc,0,$ile);
        $txt = $tnij."...";
    }
    else
    {$txt = $tresc;}
      echo $txt;