a probably easy when you know how news question

[macko]

My news question is this - I have a link in the main menu at the top of my page called news.  When I click this link my news articles are nicely ordered and laid out down the rhs of the page - using a summary template.  This bit I fully understand.

However, when the "news" link from the main menu is clicked I would prefer for the most recent news article to appear in full detail in the {content} area, as though I had clicked .[..more] on the most recent summary article. 

Does anyone know if this is possible - do I have to hack the link in the main menu?

many thanks

(cmsms 1.4.1)

[calguy1000]

Yes, yes it is..... it's some simple smarty magic.  I've done it.  Not gonna tell you how.

the solution is left as an exersise to the user.

[macko]

aaah no a challenge!  my designer brain can't cope with php.  I don't even know what "smarty" is yet but I'm on the case.

[calguy1000]

actually, I kinda lied.

It is simple smarty logic... assuming you know where to look for a few things.  and after a bit of reviewing (i.e: making sure I wasn't just shooting my mouth off), I found that that not everything was documented.

Anyways.

On my news page here: http://calguy1000.com/news.html The first news article is displayed in detail view.   Because I use a bit of smarty magic and an undocumented feature of the news module.

Here's the exerpt out of my summary template:

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{foreach from=$items item=entry name='news'}
{if $smarty.foreach.news.index == 0}
   {news action='detail' articleid=$news->id}
{else}
<div class="NewsSummary">
....
{/if}
{/foreach}

Now the rest is left for an exercise to the user.

[macko]

great!

thanks for getting me started, I'll report back when the problem is solved.

cheers dude