News posts on home page

ARW VISIONS · #1 07-03-2009, 11:25 AM

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

ARW VISIONS · #2 07-05-2009, 07:22 PM

anyone?

Victor D · #3 07-14-2009, 02:27 PM

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>

to

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.

matallen · #4 09-10-2009, 07:14 AM

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!

Victor D · #5 09-11-2009, 06:45 AM

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;}

matallen · #6 09-11-2009, 06:50 AM

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!

matallen · #7 09-11-2009, 07:01 AM

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.

Victor D · #8 09-11-2009, 07:06 AM

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.

matallen · #9 09-11-2009, 11:16 AM

You are amazing!

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?

Victor D · #10 09-15-2009, 02:00 AM

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}