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News posts on home page

How can I ahve more than one news post on the home page? Like maybe all active?

Re: News posts on home page

add in the end of modules/News_Management/func.php

Code:

function insert_news_get_num($lngcode) { return array_slice(func_news_get($lngcode), 0, 3);}

then in skin1/customer/news.tpl change

Code:

{if $is_news_exist}



    {capture name=menu}



      <div class="news item">

        {include file="today_news.tpl"}

      </div>

Code:

{if $is_news_exist}



    {capture name=menu}



     {if $news_message eq ""}

       <div class="news item">{$lng.txt_no_news_available}</div>

     {else}



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

       {section name=newsloop loop=$all_news}

         <div class="news item">

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

  {$all_news[newsloop].body}<br />

      </div>

        {/section}

        <br />

       {if $usertype eq "C"}

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

        {/if}

       {/if}

This should work, though I didn't tested it.

Re: News posts on home page

I just tried this and am getting this error:

Quote:

Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /modules/News_Management/func.php on line 82

I'd really appreciate your help as this is EXACTLY what I need to do! Thanks so much!

Re: News posts on home page

Quote:

Originally Posted by matallen

Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /modules/News_Management/func.php on line 82

You have no news for the current language I suppose.

try to replace

Code:

function insert_news_get_num($lngcode) { return array_slice(func_news_get($lngcode), 0, 3);}

with

Code:

function insert_news_get_num($lngcode) {$news = func_news_get($lngcode);

 return $news ? array_slice($news, 0, 3) : false;}

Re: News posts on home page

Okay I did that - That got rid of the error but now there are no news items showing. If I click the "Previous News" link it takes me to the news page where I have two items showing. What classifies as "Current News"?? Thanks SOOO much for your help!

Re: News posts on home page

Also - I went and looked at the news system and saw where it said I could pick a language. Well there is nothing there for language. I have english set as the default/only language in my cart. I tried enabling Spanish and a drop down appeared across from the language label on the news management screen. It was grayed out and said English. This did not fix the issue however.

Re: News posts on home page

Thank you, it should be

Code:

function insert_news_get_num($conf) {$news = func_news_get($conf['lngcode']);

 return $news ? array_slice($news, 0, 3) : false;}

as the language code was taken incorrectly.

Re: News posts on home page

You are amazing! :D/ Thanks so much! Hopefully I'm not bothering you too much but can you point me in the right direction if I only want to show the Message "Subject" or if I'd want to only display the first x number of words the message? :lol:

Re: News posts on home page

Code:

{if $is_news_exist}

    {capture name=menu}

    {if $news_message eq ""}

      <div class="news item">{$lng.txt_no_news_available}</div>

    {else}

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

      {section name=newsloop loop=$all_news}

        <div class="news item">

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

  {$all_news[newsloop].body}<br />

        </div>

      {/section}

      <br />

      {if $usertype eq "C"}

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

      {/if}

{/if}

Code:

{if $is_news_exist}

    {capture name=menu}

    {if $news_message eq ""}

      <div class="news item">{$lng.txt_no_news_available}</div>

    {else}

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

      {section name=newsloop loop=$all_news}

        <div class="news item">

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

  {$all_news[newsloop].body|truncate:200}<br />

        </div>

      {/section}

      <br />

      {if $usertype eq "C"}

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

      {/if}

{/if}