News Summary layout

[fadum]

Does anyone know how i could edit the news summary template to show the news in boxes 2 wide

example

instead of

news 1
news 2
news 3
news 4

it would be
news 1news 2news 3news 4

the layout would be similar to http://news.bbc.co.uk

many thanks inadvance

[fadum]

anyone?

[nils73]

You can do this with Smarty in the News > Template section:

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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
  {foreach from=$items item=entry name=newslist}
    {if $smarty.foreach.newslist.iteration % 2 == 1}
    <tr>
      <td>
        <h4 id="news{$entry->id}">{$entry->title}</h4>
        <p>{$entry->data}</p>
        <p>Date: {$entry->date}</p>
      </td>
    {else}
      <td>
        <h4 id="news{$entry->id}">{$entry->title}</h4>
        <p>{$entry->data}</p>
        <p>Date: {$entry->date}</p>
      </td>
    </tr>
    {if ! $smarty.foreach.imagelist.last}
    <tr>
      <td colspan="2">From here on joined cols in table-layouts!</td>
    </tr>
    {/if}
    {/if}
  {/foreach}
</table>

[fadum]

nils73 thank you very much, it works perfect

[nils73]

Actually it was just a guess, but you can do nice things with Smarty ... like change the colors of multiple rows in a table (grey, white, grey, ...) and many many more. I simply love these features because I don't know anything about programming but need some functions for templating purpose and Smarty comes up with really nice solutions that can be easily implemented. Check out the manual at http://smarty.php.net - it comes multilingual!

Regards,
Nils

[fadum]

excellent thanks will have a read