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orangeoctane
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May 29, 2005, 4:05 PM

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How to display headlines on the home page? Can't Post
Hello,

I wanted to see how I go about displaying headlines on my .html home page? I understand that some sort of PHP include should be used, but I am not totally sure how to pull it off.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

Thanks for the help.

Dave Fore


ross
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May 29, 2005, 4:37 PM

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Re: [orangeoctane] How to display headlines on the home page? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Dave.

Thanks for posting!

PHP isn’t actually my specialty, however using a PHP includes is actually quite easy once you have the right code Smile. So here is an example for you:

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<?php include("filename.php") ?>

Just replace filename.php with the name and path to the file you want to include.

One thing to keep in mind is that on most servers you’ll actually want a page to have .php as its extension if you want to have php code on it.

You could get in touch with your web host though and ask them to turn on php parsing in html documents if you wanted to keep index.html as your home page.

Does that all make sense?

Just let me know if you would like anymore details Smile.
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orangeoctane
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May 29, 2005, 7:30 PM

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Re: [ross] How to display headlines on the home page? [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Ross. The include works, however all of the links for each of the stories is no longer pointing to the correct location. The names are right, but it thinks the stories are in the same directory as the page the links are on, not the full nm/publish/ directory.

Now what?


ross
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May 30, 2005, 8:55 AM

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Re: [orangeoctane] How to display headlines on the home page? [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Dave.

Thanks for the update!

Because you are including the links onto a different page, you’ll want to be basing all your links off of the webroot. New Manager should actually already be creating links like this though, so I’ll get you to double check how your paths are setup on the _index.html template. Anywhere you are linking to an article page try using the $url$ placeholder. This should give you the correct path. Keep in mind though that the place holder will only work on your News Manager templates Smile.

Could you take a look into that for me and let me know how you make out?
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orangeoctane
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May 30, 2005, 9:11 AM

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Re: [ross] How to display headlines on the home page? [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks for all of your help Ross. I've actually decided to get a refund on NM. Not because I've had technical issues or due to a lack of friendly support, but because I need more control over the number of headlines displayed on any given page. I may have 10 articles published but I just want to see the latest 3 headlines on the home page (or 5 on another page). I understand that Article Manager can do this, but AM would be overkill for the solution I need not to mention blowing the tiny budget I have for this project.

Thanks again for your assistance.

Dave