Newbe Question - Getting url from the News Summary Template
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:47 am
Hi,
I apologise for the desperate Newbe question, but I just want to change the > from the News Summary Template to 'First Page' and 'Last Page' . I've played with the sample template and created one of my own that lays out exactly like I want to, but I can't get any information out of the $firstpage variable. I've tried dumping it but I get a NULL. Obviously it is outputting the anchor and the '<<' text, but all I want is the url so I can change the text. I have read the manual, and had a good look around the forums and google. I'm probably missing something basic!! However i have to say that I am extremely impressed with CMSMS so far! As a complete novice to the system I have managed to get a site together in 4 days. It's not huge, 30 or so pages, but I've needed around 6 template pages and various other module templates to be sorted out. With the comprehensive documentation and the extremely intuative way the system is created it is really easy to create a site. I also know that my client will have no problem maintaining it on a day to day basis - in fact I'm already contacting all my friends and telling them to use CMSMS! My only little gripe is that when you get beyond the basics the documentation is a bit more difficult to find. However that is probably my lack of PHP knowledege (I'm mainly a Flash and Flex nerd). Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tim
PS I'm also working on a Flash Image Gallery (I know there is one, but I'm doing it to expand my knowledge). Does anyone know how I could use the Image Manager to output a url rather than an image tag so the user can browse to the images they want and add the urls to a module so I can create a comma seperated list? Not urgent at all, just thought I'd chuck it in
I apologise for the desperate Newbe question, but I just want to change the > from the News Summary Template to 'First Page' and 'Last Page' . I've played with the sample template and created one of my own that lays out exactly like I want to, but I can't get any information out of the $firstpage variable. I've tried dumping it but I get a NULL. Obviously it is outputting the anchor and the '<<' text, but all I want is the url so I can change the text. I have read the manual, and had a good look around the forums and google. I'm probably missing something basic!! However i have to say that I am extremely impressed with CMSMS so far! As a complete novice to the system I have managed to get a site together in 4 days. It's not huge, 30 or so pages, but I've needed around 6 template pages and various other module templates to be sorted out. With the comprehensive documentation and the extremely intuative way the system is created it is really easy to create a site. I also know that my client will have no problem maintaining it on a day to day basis - in fact I'm already contacting all my friends and telling them to use CMSMS! My only little gripe is that when you get beyond the basics the documentation is a bit more difficult to find. However that is probably my lack of PHP knowledege (I'm mainly a Flash and Flex nerd). Anyway any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tim
PS I'm also working on a Flash Image Gallery (I know there is one, but I'm doing it to expand my knowledge). Does anyone know how I could use the Image Manager to output a url rather than an image tag so the user can browse to the images they want and add the urls to a module so I can create a comma seperated list? Not urgent at all, just thought I'd chuck it in