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News Archive Issues
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:35 pm
by 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!
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:01 pm
by 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
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:28 pm
by 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.
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:12 am
by 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
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:28 am
by cyberman
Hi Ronny,
It's funny - 2.1 is not in version info ... current version is 2.2.
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:06 am
by 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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Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:11 am
by cyberman
Should work - the only change in version info is browsecat functionality.
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:16 am
by 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
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:56 pm
by cyberman
Hmm, very curiously - I've got it from a 1.02 -> 1.04 update.
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Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:07 pm
by 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
Re: News Archive Issues
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:15 am
by 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