Re: [cfdesign] getting a single news item to show.
Hi cfdesign,
If I understand what you're asking, both are possible, and easy.
The showing only the first news item is as easy as inserting a <?PHP break ?> before your <?PHP endforeach ?> which will tell the loop to stop after it runs through once.
Changing the link to ...click for more... can be accomplished in a few ways.
Here's an excerpt from my CMSB Cookbook
thecmsbcookbook.com that describes one approach using a word count to determine when the "click for more" is displayed.
In the head of your page insert the following code: (straight out of the code generator)
<?php
require_once "/your_path_to/cmsAdmin/lib/viewer_functions.php";
list($your_tableRecords, $your_tableMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'your_table',
));
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">In the body of your page, before you display your information, put the following code to set up the maxwords function:
<?PHP
function maxWords($textOrHtml, $maxWords) {
$text = strip_tags($textOrHtml);
$words = preg_split("/\s+/", $text, $maxWords+1);
if (count($words) > $maxWords) { unset($words[$maxWords]); }
$output = join(' ', $words);
return $output;
}
?>Then, where you want to display your articles and pictures, use something like this:
strupper forces the title to be displayed in CAPS, the number in the <?PHP echo maxWords($record['full_article'], 40); line sets the number of words to display before the ... (read more).
<?php foreach ($your_tableRecords as $record): ?>
<?php foreach ($record['your_image'] as $upload): ?>
<a href="http://www.your_site.com/your_detail_page.php?<?php echo $record['num'] ?>"><br /><br /><img border="0" src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath'] ?>" alt="" width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth'] ?>" height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight'] ?>" align="center" /></a>
<?php endforeach ?>
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><div><a href="http://www.your_site.com/your_detail_page.php?<?php echo $record['num'] ?>"><?php $event_title = ($record['title']); ?><?php echo strtoupper($title); ?></a></div>
<br />
<?PHP echo maxWords($record['full_article'], 40);
?>...<a href="http://www.your_site.com/your_detail_page.php<?php echo $record['num'] ?>">(Read More)</a>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>Styling is of course up to you.
Hope that gives you some ideas.
Best,
Jerry Kornbluth
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