News Module Summary template

[Idan023]

I have a question about the news module..and i cant seem to find the answer by googling or here.. my apologies if it is on here and i searched wrong..

Anyway:

I made a summary template that shows all the news articles (all categories) as links under eachother... like in the added image...

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Now i want to add a different image icon to each category...
So that if the news article is for example "music" it shows a different icon than if the article is "general" or "art"..

how would i do that?

at the moment the summary template looks like this

{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<div class="News">

<div id="morenews">
<img src="/images/arrow.png"><a href="{$entry->moreurl}" title="{$entry->title|cms_escape:htmlall}">{$entry->title|cms_escape}</a>
</div>

{/foreach}

Here i just put the same image in front of all the links (the image doesnt show because its not uploaded), which also works fine, but i would prefer a category related image..

im using CMS Made Simple™ 1.9.4.1 "Faanui" (its an website i havent worked on in a while, just picked it up today)

[staartmees]

update your core and modules asap for security and stability as your version normally isn't supported anymore, http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopi ... 40&t=30336

[HarmO]

I haven't tried it, but here are my thoughts.

You could create an image for every category and name them after your category's alias (assuming is has an alias). These images you than place on your hosting, for example under "uploads/images/newsicons"

next you can change your code to

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{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<div class="News">
<div id="morenews">
  <img src="{uploads_url}/images/newsicons/{$entry->alias}.jpg">
  <a href="{$entry->moreurl}" title="{$entry->title|cms_escape:htmlall}">
    {$entry->title|cms_escape}
  </a>
</div>
<div> {* <-- You forgot to close this one !! *}
{/foreach}

If you cant find the category alias, you could try {$entry->title|escape:'url'}

Hope you can work with it.