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Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

I'm trying to show 5 news message on the home page, but I noticed from the debugging tool that the $news_message only has one story in the array.

In news.php however, there's a new variable called $news_messages which has multiple stories...

How can I get access to that $news_messages variable from the home page?

I was able to find this thread which talks about exactly what I need, but it doesn't work for 4.4.x

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=48437 - looks like it's only valid for 4.3 and 4.2

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

anybody got solution for this change?

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

The heart of the display appears to be...

Code:

{insert name="gate" func="news_get_num" assign="all_news"   lngcode=$shop_language}

{section name=newsloop loop=$all_news}

         <div class="newsitem">

          <strong>           {$all_news[newsloop].date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}</strong><br />

  {$all_news[newsloop].body}<br />

      </div>

        {/section}

Try adding that to news.tpl checking first if any of the variables have changed between versions.

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

it didn't work.

By the way, where are these variables stored?

$news_message.date
$all_news

I mean how do you find the right variable and what do they all mean?

Still haven't figured out how this smarty works. Your help is appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

I no longer have a copy of 4.0.x to look at, sorry.

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

Use webmaster mode - it shows you the available variables and their contents.

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Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

Quote:

Originally Posted by chiactivate

I'm using 4.44 now

Have you tried this?

Code:

{*

$Id: news.tpl,v 1.1 2010/05/21 08:31:51 joy Exp $

vim: set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et:

*}

{if $active_modules.News_Management}

  {insert name="gate" func="news_exist" assign="is_news_exist" lngcode=$shop_language}



  {if $is_news_exist}



    {insert name="gate" func="news_subscription_allowed" assign="is_subscription_allowed" lngcode=$shop_language}



    <div class="news-box">



      <div class="news">



        <h2>{$lng.lbl_news}</h2>



        {if $news_message eq ""}



          {$lng.txt_no_news_available}



        {else}

      {* Added loop from news_archive.tpl *}

      {foreach from=$news_messages item=m name=news}



        <div{interline name=news additional_class="news-item"}>

          <div class="news-date">{$m.date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}</div>

            <div class="news-title">{$m.subject|amp}</div>

             <div class="news-body">

          {if $m.allow_html eq "N"}

            {$m.body|escape|nl2br}

          {else}

            {$m.body|amp}

          {/if}

        </div>



      </div>



    {/foreach}

    {* Added loop from news_archive.tpl END *}

         {* <strong>{$news_message.date|date_format:$config.Appearance.date_format}</strong><br />

          {$news_message.body} *}

          <br /><br />

          <a href="news.php" class="prev-news">{$lng.lbl_previous_news}</a>

          {if $is_subscription_allowed}

            &nbsp;&nbsp;

            <a href="news.php#subscribe" class="subscribe">{$lng.lbl_subscribe}</a>

          {/if}



        {/if}



      </div>



    </div>



  {/if}

{/if}

I just added the loop from the "light and lucid 2 column" news_archive.tpl and commented out the original call for the one news message. I don't know if it will work or not but probably worth a try.

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

it still didn't work. You are right. Should be copy pasting the loop from news_archive.tpl, but the doesn't work at all.

Added some dummy text inside the loop, but the dummy text didn't show up. So, I guess it didn't even go inside the loop at all.

Re: Showing more than 1 News story on the Home page

This may be obvious, but what we are going to need to do is assign the variable $news_messages somewhere other than news.php.

In modules/News_management/news_manage.php you will see the variable assigned to smarty:

Code:

$smarty->assign('news_messages', func_news_get($shop_language, false, false, "$first_page, $objects_per_page"));

Hope that helps,

-Mike