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Removing Date references from posted stories?
  • Posted: 23.02.2008, 03:03
     
    Tiggerz
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    Hi, I am working on building a list of stories -as a way of publishing simple content pages in a menu block- everything seems to be working fine except i want the story titles to list in the block without the date references which due to there size push the story titles apart in the block. All I want to appear in the block are the story titles themselves and not the dates they are published. is there a way to do this? is it possible I am going about this the wrong way?

    Cheers Tiggerz

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  • Posted: 23.02.2008, 04:30
     
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    if (pnSecAuthAction(0, 'Stories::Story', "$aid:$cattitle:$sid", ACCESS_READ) && pnSecAuthAction(0, 'Topics::Topic', "$topicname::$tid", ACCESS_READ) ) {
    $row['content'] .=
    "<li><span class=\"pn-sub\"><a href=\"index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=" . pnVarPrepForDisplay($sid) . "\">" . pnVarPrepForDisplay(pnVarCensor($title)) . "</a>
    ("
    .ml_ftime(_DATEBRIEF,$time).")</span></li>\n";
    $shown_results++;
    }


    change to:

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    if (pnSecAuthAction(0, 'Stories::Story', "$aid:$cattitle:$sid", ACCESS_READ) && pnSecAuthAction(0, 'Topics::Topic', "$topicname::$tid", ACCESS_READ) ) {
    $row['content'] .=
    "<li><span class=\"pn-sub\"><a href=\"index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=" . pnVarPrepForDisplay($sid) . "\">" . pnVarPrepForDisplay(pnVarCensor($title)) . "</a>
    </span></li>\n"
    ;
    $shown_results++;
    }


    includes/blocks/stories.php (~161)

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  • Posted: 23.02.2008, 05:16
     
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    Thank you very much that worked wonderfully :)

    Tiggerz
  • Posted: 23.02.2008, 07:43
     
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    NP

    It is really easy to do in PN .8 as things are templated.

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  • Posted: 23.02.2008, 08:05
     
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    Yea currently my ISP is running PostNuke (0.764) and they have a nifty auto-installer and gods know what else running in the back ground so I am hesitant to update my version of post nuke in case they don't support it yet.

    Okay one more question :) i want to be able to have more than one block for listing out content menus in the same way the current block handling stories does. I tried two story blocks and merely got a duplication of the first block in the second.

    is it possible to have two story blocks with different content? I see a reference to categories when i create a block but cant seem to find any way to make separate categories...? And i guess i don't know if this is the best way to go about creating multiple blocks with text-menu links to content pages.

    Suggestions anyone? if you look at my page (URL below) you can see i have a block on the right titled ANZAC I need to create a second block under this with similar items in the menu. Sorry for the n00b questions, but these things dont always seem that obvious despite reading lots of beginners guides.

    Tiggerz

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    "Problem with beginners guides is that they are rarely written by beginners." icon_biggrin
  • Posted: 25.02.2008, 23:47
     
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    Categories in pn0.764 are a bit difficult to understand as far as creating them goes, it has to be done from the AddStory module. If you go to either add or edit a story through AddStory (edit through 'Programmed Articles') you'll see a 'Category' drop down ('Articles' is default but does not show under Stories block category selection) with the control links immediately after, use those to create/edit/delete categories.

    Or you can use the following URI's appended to your URL.

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    admin.php?module=AddStory&op=AddCategory
    admin.php?module=AddStory&op=EditCategory
    admin.php?module=AddStory&op=EditCategory&catid=[$catID]

    It looks as though you can control the output through 'Topic' selection as well.

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  • Posted: 27.02.2008, 13:16
     
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    Thanks, that helped :)

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