Any chance of an 'A' 'B' 'C' listing for news module

[buzzby]

i am not sure if this exists already. i would like to know if there is a module that deals with listings in a alphabetical manor. i know that the news module already can list all articles by their starting letter.

• ART
• BEAUTY
• CARE
• DRAMA

etc

is there a way that a comprehensive list can be displayed by category? so all categories will be listed with their subjects in alphabetical order?

ART

• AS Level - Art History
  A2 Level - Art & History
  Btec 1st Art & Design Diploma
  Btec Nat Art & Design Certificate

Also a little like the glossary can there be letter splits so that all courses under D or E can be clicked on to be viewed.

cheers

[reneh]

See help of news...
News have catagories.


For pagination by chars you must do some nice templating for list view...

[beattie]

If I've understood you correctly, I solved this problem not long ago with the help of a posting on this forum.

Open file action.browsecat.php (should be in folder modules/News)

Around line 31 replace this line:

$query .= ' ORDER by hierarchy';

With this line:

$query .= ' ORDER by long_name';

To show the list of categories in their alphabetical order put this in your page or page template:

{news browsecat="1" category="Articles*" sortby="news_title"}

Check News module help for other parameters. Articles is the parent name of the category, the asterisk * shows all the child categories (sub-categories).

See this page for a live example of a category list in alphabetical order:

http://www.kidsinmadrid.com/en/kim-business-directory.html

[Ted]

Open file action.browsecat.php (should be in folder modules/News)

Around line 31 replace this line:

This isn't a valid solution anymore.  News has been significantly changed, and it should be possible to do this without any code hacking.  Using browsecat, properly setup category hierarchy and a little smarty magic, it should be pretty easy to do.

Good luck.