Customised displaying of news, possible?

Hhawk

Posted on 01 Mar 2011, 13:56:18

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Is it possible to display some code, like a banner, after the first (latest) newsitem followed by the rest of the newsitems?

Example:

Newsitem #1 (latest news)
Some custom code, like a banner here.
Newsitem #2
Newsitem #3
Newsitem #4
Newsitem #5
etc...?

Probably it's possible, but I don't know how.

//edit #1

Also I am running into a problem. Whenever someone pressed the "read more" link, they go the full story newsitem. This is all good, however there is no back link or anything else? I just have my full website layout with the full newsitem. So if they want to go back, they have to click the navigation link of my website.

Is this normal? Maybe I have removed to much from all the templates? Cause I removed the comments section (cause I don't need or use it).

//edit #2

Well I managed to create workaround for the above, by changing the comment template to the following:

Quote:

{news}
<div class="tekstvakken_links">
<div class="tekstvakken_inhoud">
<center><a href="nieuws.php" title="terug">..ga terug</a>
</center>
</div></div>

#3264

Last edited by Hhawk at 2011-03-01 15:01:19 Reason: Added a problem...

Chris

Posted on 02 Mar 2011, 06:13:02

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Whilst this isn't something the system can do by default it is doable with a bit of hackery. If you edit index.php, around line 514~ you'll see this code

Code:


        foreach($newsdata AS $news){
            $allnews .= formatnews($template,'0',$news);
        }

Change it to

Code:


        $i = 1;
        foreach($newsdata AS $news){
            $allnews .= formatnews($template,'0',$news);
            if($i == "1"){
                $allnews .= "STUFF";
            }
            $i++;
        }

This will show "STUFF" after the first article.

#3279

Hhawk

Posted on 02 Mar 2011, 07:43:38

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It works. Excellent. TY.

#3280

Hhawk

Posted on 02 Mar 2011, 13:43:41

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I was a bit to quick by saying it works, well it works, but it's also causing some problems.

On the newspage (where all newsitems are being displayed) it works great. Managed to get the banners working without problems.

However on the main website page, where I use to show the latest / last newsitem in a small column, the banners also appear, which are ruining the page.

Any idea on how to get pass that?

Maybe it's better to display the banner-code after the 2nd newsitem? So it won't show up on the main page, but only on the newsitems page?

//update

I think I may have fixed it myself, or at least make the banners show after the 2nd newsitem instead. I changed to the code to:

Code:


    $newsdata = DataAccess::fetch($sql);
    if(ID == "" || ID == "0" || $static){
        $template5 = '';
        $allnews = '';
        $oneortwo = 'one';
        $i = 1;
        foreach($newsdata AS $news){
            $allnews .= formatnews($template,'0',$news);
            if($i == "2"){
                $numsbo=3;
                $sbofiles[]="./includes/banner1.php";
                $sbofiles[]="./includes/banner2.php";
                $sbofiles[]="./includes/banner3.php";
                $option=rand(0,$numsbo-1);
                $allnews .= file_get_contents($sbofiles[$option]);
            }
            $i++;
        }

I changed the original: if($i == "1"){
into: if($i == "2"){

Is this correct coding?

#3281

Last edited by Hhawk at 2011-03-02 13:46:23 Reason: Update