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Multiple News Categories

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Lucius

Post subject: Multiple News Categories

Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:23 am

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:15 am
Posts: 5

Hi,

I've got the news/blog plugin 1.01 installed and it's working fine.

I'm now trying to create 2 different NEWS categories to be displayed on the front page, one being "Top News" and another being "Articles".

I'm using the following to display the "Top News" content on my front page:

Code:

<?php
            $newsZone = $site->getZoneByModule('display_content', 'news_blog');
            $limit = 3;
            //$layout = 'blog'; //blog style - long long page with all information from all articles.
            //$layout = 'news'; //title date and first paragraph of text.
            $layout = 'newsIntro'; //title date and first widget (with photos or anything else.
            echo $newsZone->generateNews($limit, $layout);
            ?>

I'd like to similarly display article contents without causing conflict with the "Top News".

Any ideas on how to achieve this?

maskas

Post subject: Re: Multiple News Categories

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:25 am

Project Developer

Joined: Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:43 am
Posts: 1720

If you go to "Developer -> Zones" tab, you will see a zone "news". Pres "New record" and insert one more zone with all the same fields like "news" zone, except the name and title. Write "articles" instead of "news".

Add "articles" zone to associated zones of menu management http://www.impresspages.org/docs/config ... iguration/

Print your top news:

Code:

<?php
            $newsZone = $site->getZone('news');
            $limit = 3;
            //$layout = 'blog'; //blog style - long long page with all information from all articles.
            //$layout = 'news'; //title date and first paragraph of text.
            $layout = 'newsIntro'; //title date and first widget (with photos or anything else.
            echo $newsZone->generateNews($limit, $layout);
?>

Print Articles:

Code:

<?php
            $newsZone = $site->getZone('articles');
            $limit = 3;
            //$layout = 'blog'; //blog style - long long page with all information from all articles.
            //$layout = 'news'; //title date and first paragraph of text.
            $layout = 'newsIntro'; //title date and first widget (with photos or anything else.
            echo $newsZone->generateNews($limit, $layout);
?>

Lucius

Post subject: Re: Multiple News Categories

Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:58 pm

Joined: Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:15 am
Posts: 5

Absolutely amazing, works perfectly. Thanks!

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