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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 27, 2005 - 05:00 AM

  Whatever module we hang out on the home page - PN-News, Pagesetter or anything else the information will be shown as a simple list of the same kind of info. But what are we gonna do if we need to show on the home page different kinds of info. obtained from different presented modules? For instance, up-to-date image from gallery module, the latest news, the
  topmost news, the today event list from PostCalendar etc. What are we gonna do in this case? Should we code an own module or there is something already developed for that purpose? Thanks for any help in advance.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 27, 2005 - 07:51 AM

  Many modules come with blocks that take care of this sort of thing. For example, PostCalendar has an "upcoming events" type of block, and My_E_Gallery has a block that will show a random image, which you can probably modify to get the most recent image(s).

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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 27, 2005 - 08:23 AM

  To complete jediping answer once you have selected the blocks that you want to show on the front page, you need a module to "agregate" the output of all these blocks. Several are available :
  - BlockHome
  - pnHomepage
  If you decide to use one of these, read the relevant threads in these forums.
  But my prefered method is to use the Start module from Jorg Napp because if you know a little about Smarty it is both simple and powerfull : you design your frontpage as a template and you can include in it any HTML or Smarty coding and of course any block. Of course this third method will only work if you use PostNuke .750 or .760, not PostNuke .726 because pnRender module is needed for the Start module to run.
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 28, 2005 - 12:36 AM

  Thanks a lot jmvedrine. That is just what I asked for. I've already found BlockHome and Start. Unfortunately, I haven't found the pnHomepage yet. Could you give me the link to download it. I just want to compare all of it.

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