News Archive Issues

[marklyon]

Hi everyone! Firsdt of all I confess I'm a total newbie as far as PHP goes.
I'm just wondering what code I'd have to put in a page so that I can have an archive of expired news? At the moment I've used the code from the default contents in CMSMS to create a news section in the menu but I'd really like to offer an archive of older news.

Cheers!

[RonnyK]

marklyon,

I don't think that news shows expired news, I only use "number=5" on the main-page to show the last 5 posts, and on the archive-page without this option, so that all items are show, except the expired ones.

I found this topic however that points to an development change to handle it


http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,5230.msg29008.html#msg29008


Ronny

[mahjong]

Marklyon,

Go to Extensions->Modules->Help (News)

Parameters

    * (optional) start="5" - Start at the nth item -- leaving empty will start at the first item.
    * (optional) number="5" - Maximum number of items to display =- leaving empty will show all items.
    * (optional) dateformat="%b %d, %Y" - Format to display the article's post date with. This is based on the strftime function and can be used in your template with $entry->formatpostdate. It defaults to %x, which is the default date format for the server's locale.
    * (optional) makerssbutton="true" - Make a button to link to an RSS feed of the News items.
    * (optional) category="category" - Only display items for that category. Use * after the name to show children. Multiple categories can be used if separated with a comma. Leaving empty, will show all categories.
    * (optional) moretext="more..." - Text to display at the end of a news item if it goes over the summary length. Defaults to "more..."
    * (optional) summarytemplate="sometemplate.tpl" - Use a separate template for displaying the article summary. It have to live in modules/News/templates.
    * (optional) detailtemplate="sometemplate.tpl" - Use a separate template for displaying the article detail. It have to live in modules/News/templates.
    * (optional) detailpage="pagealias" - Page to display News details in. This can either be a page alias or an id. Used to allow details to be displayed in a different template from the summary.
    * (optional) sortby="news_date" - Field to sort by. Options are: "news_date", "summary", "news_data", "news_category", "news_title". Defaults to "news_date".
    * (optional) sortasc="true" - Sort news items in ascending date order rather than descending.
    * (optional) showarchive="true" - Show only expired news articles.
    * (optional) browsecat="true" - Shows a browseable category list.
    * (optional) lang="en_US" - Parameter is used to specify what language to use for display on the frontend. Not all modules support or need this.

[RonnyK]

mahjong,

what version of NEWS are you using then. I run 2.1 and my help doesn't show the option "showarchive" and I can't install news manually as it is embedded in core. I run 1.0.2 of cmsms by the way.

Parameters
(optional) start="5" - Start at the nth item -- leaving empty will start at the first item.
(optional) number="5" - Maximum number of items to display =- leaving empty will show all items.
(optional) dateformat="%b %d, %Y" - Format to display the article's post date with. This is based on the strftime function and can be used in your template with $entry->formatpostdate. It defaults to %x, which is the default date format for the server's locale.
(optional) makerssbutton="true" - Make a button to link to an RSS feed of the News items.
(optional) category="category" - Only display items for that category. Use * after the name to show children. Multiple categories can be used if separated with a comma. Leaving empty, will show all categories.
(optional) moretext="more..." - Text to display at the end of a news item if it goes over the summary length. Defaults to "more..."
(optional) summarytemplate="sometemplate.tpl" - Use a separate template for displaying the article summary. It have to live in modules/News/templates.
(optional) detailtemplate="sometemplate.tpl" - Use a separate template for displaying the article detail. It have to live in modules/News/templates.
(optional) detailpage="pagealias" - Page to display News details in. This can either be a page alias or an id. Used to allow details to be displayed in a different template from the summary.
(optional) sortby="news_date" - Field to sort by. Options are: "news_date", "summary", "news_data", "news_category", "news_title". Defaults to "news_date".
(optional) sortasc="true" - Sort news items in ascending date order rather than descending.
(optional) lang="en_US" - Parameter is used to specify what language to use for display on the frontend. Not all modules support or need this.

Ronny

[cyberman]

Hi Ronny,

It's funny - 2.1 is not in version info ... current version is 2.2.

[RonnyK]

Cyberman,

in my module-manager it says i'm running on 2.1.See attached image. Can I upgrade to 2.2 without having to go to CMSMS 1.0.4.

Ronny



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[cyberman]

Should work - the only change in version info is browsecat functionality.

[RonnyK]

Cyberman,

where can I find the latest news-version, as it isn't listed in the module-manager and also not visible in the list of modules in the development area.

I also installed 1.0.4 on a seperate environment, that one is also 2.1.

Ronny

[cyberman]

Hmm, very curiously - I've got it from a 1.02 -> 1.04 update.

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[RonnyK]

Ah Cyberman,

my mistake, I reinstalled that environment to 1.0.2 after it first was 1.0.4. I had some problems with 1.0.4. and installed 1.0.2 over there as well. I didn't double-check and have 2.1 there as well as it comes with the core of 1.0.2.

Sorry for the disturbance,

Ronny

[theothersimon]

I had a similar problem with show categories. 

The solution is here:  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 409.0.html

instead of ='true' 

try ='1'

Sorry this is a bit of a sparse reply,I have to run out the door. Have a loook at the links and it should explain itself.

it has since been submitted for correction here: http://viewsvn.cmsmadesimple.org/viewsv ... e&view=rev