<! duplicating news module

[mikemcvey]

Just a query as to how much work it would take to duplicate this module...

So instead of 2 categorys [ news, recentevents ]  have 2 modules.... [ news ] and [ recentevents ]

Is it as simple as just duplications the folder and editing the News.module.php??

mike

[calguy1000]

duplicating a module is relatively easy, but has it's drawbacks.

The big question is "why would you want to?"

Is this something that needs to be changed in the news module?

[mikemcvey]

re: "Is this something that needs to be changed in the news module?"

...it would be nice to be able to have different templates... ie display [ beer ] news in a different template than [ wine ] news.
...and it would be nice to be able to set the order of the items manually like page order.

I really want to seperate the news so that a client can log in and go straight to [ beer ] or [ wine ] and edit the content. Rather than having to use the dropdown to select..  I can see a problem where the admin client enters the "wrong news into the wong section"

[cyberman]

...it would be nice to be able to have different templates... ie display [ beer ] news in a different template than [ wine ] news.

RTFM  ...

You can define your own summary and detail templates with {cms_module module="news" number="5" category="wine" summarytemplate="winetemplate.tpl" } or {cms_module module="news" number="5" category="beer" detailtemplate="beertemplate.tpl"}

...and it would be nice to be able to set the order of the items manually like page order.

Here you have the option to play with start date and sort with {cms_module module="news" number="5" category="Bier" sortby="news_date"}. There are some other order options too.

I really want to seperate the news so that a client can log in and go straight to [ beer ] or [ wine ] and edit the content. Rather than having to use the dropdown to select..  I can see a problem where the admin client enters the "wrong news into the wong section"

IMHO that should not really be an option  - that's your job to instruct your clients. Write a short FAQ, HowTo, a check list or so other for clients.

[Signex]

is it also possible to give every news template its own CSS ?

[Dr.CSS]

if the news category only shows up on one template then yes..
and i changed the 'News' Module into 'Blog' Module as seen here...
http://www.multiintech.com/index.php?page=blogger
it's also used on a couple of other pages with the News next to it....

  mark

[tsw]

is it also possible to give every news template its own CSS ?

in summary template chenge line

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<div class="NewsSummary">

to

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<div class="NewsSummary {$entry->category}">

then you can style different categorys with css

same goes with detail template but you would need to wrap it first like this

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<div id="NewsPostDetailWrapper" class="{$entry->category}">
[old template content here]
</div>

happy styling 

[Signex]

Thanks thats what i needed !