News Module Reference from User Defined Tag

[wfunderberg]

All,

I am trying to reference the News Module from a User Defined Tag so that I can get a count of active articles from a particular category to determine if I should display a predefined message.

I have searched through countless post but non have really shown this method that I am trying to achieve.

Is it possible to do this and if so any inspirational code would be most helpful!

Thanks!
Wes

[Wishbone]

Instead of a UDT, why don't you create a summary template for this.. There might be a smarty variable that has the count.. if it doesn't you can just count it. The summary template won't output anything, (unless you want it to)

[wfunderberg]

Thank you for the suggestion and I will try that to see if it will do what I want it to.

[wfunderberg]

Thank you Wishbone, that did the trick and was quite easy to implement.