News Module. How To Display Last News Detailed?

[URAN]

How To Display Last News Detailed?

I would like to have one or two last news to be shown detailed above other`s news list.

If it possible with this module?

Also, I would like to manager number of news at list. For example, 10 last news are shown on the main page, other ones are at the News Archive or News Page.

[calguy1000]

for limiting the results to the N newest results, use the number parameter.

i.e.:
{news number='5'}

[Badinage]

Hello new forum member here, been digging into learning CMS made simple this last month for my personal web site. Anyway, I have a question about the news module thats pretty much the same as URAN's so I thought I would just bump this thread as I hate to make new ones as a new member >_<

Anyway what I want for my site: I will keep the news module below the navigation using the summery template, but on my home page I want it to use the detail tempate to display the latest 6 articles one above the other like how it does with the summery template currently.

I cannot for the life of me find where it calls the templates. I tried the trick I saw in another thread of having "detailpage="home"" but it only has content on it if I navigate to it from the "more" link where the summery is shown, its blank if I go to it through the navigation. (edit) I also tried something I thought of to have the news module call include "summarytemplate="detailtemplate.tpl"" but this just brings up errors on the page. I guess the detail template maybe does not have that name?

Any help would be much appreciated ^ ^, this is my second stint into using CMS's, the last being when I tried to learn Nuke 3 years ago.

My page *is* up and you can see it at www.pyoko.org/~akbadinage

[calguy1000]

I am pretty sure that all of the information available to the news detail template is also available in the summary template, so it's just a matter of modifying your summary template to display the same things that the detail template does, except in a foreach loop (left as an excercise to the user)

Then you'll be able to use something like {news summarytemplate='myfunkysummarytemplate' number='5'} to display what you want.

[calguy1000]

as an added asside.... as this link isn't mentioned as prominently as it should be.... You should thoroughly read (and comprehend) the smarty manual before diving into heavy template modifications.

see http://smarty.php.net/

Also:

The {get_template_vars} tag is very handy when debugging templates.

[Badinage]

I am pretty sure that all of the information available to the news detail template is also available in the summary template, so it's just a matter of modifying your summary template to display the same things that the detail template does, except in a foreach loop (left as an excercise to the user)

Then you'll be able to use something like {news summarytemplate='myfunkysummarytemplate' number='5'} to display what you want.

*hugs!* Thanks a million it worked. I made a new template, copied the summary template into it, and added the detail content from the detail template. After some fiddling, its just what I need. I'll be messing with it more soon, but yeah, I was totally looking in teh wrong places to try to solve this little thing :3

[Dr.CSS]

If you go to Extensions > Modules and click the name of the module or Help to the right you get the parameters the module takes...