Character limit and Title link mods

Regular Joined: Apr 20, 2010 Posts: 11

Hello i have a couple of questions and wondered if you could help me out with this.

#1. Is there a way to make it so the news that is posted only show x amounts of the post before the user has to click read more, when i post it posts the whole article and i would sooner it post half of that.

#2. Is there a way to make the title of the news article link to it so a user could click the read more or the title?

Thanks in advance and you have done a magnificent job on this module nuken

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:46 am Post subject:

Thank you for the props... Very Happy

1) There are several ways to do this. for example, in News/index.php around line 146 to 164 find

Code:

while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {


      $topicname = $row['topicname'];


      $topicimage = $row['topicimage'];


      $topictext = stripslashes(check_html($row['topictext'], 'nohtml'));


                $sid = intval($row['ssid']);


      $catid = intval($row['catid']);


      $aid = stripslashes($row['aid']);


      $title = stripslashes(check_html($row['title'], 'nohtml'));


      $time = $row['time'];


      $hometext = stripslashes($row['hometext']);


      $bodytext = stripslashes($row['bodytext']);


      $comments = stripslashes($row['comments']);


      $counter = intval($row['counter']);


      $topic = intval($row['topic']);


      $informant = stripslashes($row['informant']);


      $notes = stripslashes($row['notes']);


      $acomm = intval($row['acomm']);


      $score = intval($row['score']);


      $ratings = intval($row['ratings']);

and add

Code:

$hometext = substr($hometext, 0, 150);

where 150 is the limit of characters displayed. You would probably want a few more bells and whistles but that is a simple way to do it.

2) It depends on the theme.
here is a how to I did a few years ago

News Title Link
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 9:46 am Post subject:

Here is a very cool way to limit characters and add a read more link after the text....

In modules/News/index.php find on around line 175

Code:

$story_link = '<a href="news.html?amp;file=article&amp;sid=' . $sid . '">';

after add

Code:

$charlimit = 150;


if (strlen($hometext) <= $charlimit)


{ 


               $hometext = $hometext;


}else{


               $hometext = substr($hometext, 0, strrpos(substr($hometext, 0, $charlimit), ' ')) . '  '.$story_link.'' . _READMORE . '</a></p>';


}

charlimit can be set to however many characters you want to display. Spaces, line breaks and paragraphs count for different numbers of characters, I believe paragraphs count for 3 characters.

Edited correct location.
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Regular Joined: Apr 20, 2010 Posts: 11

Wow thats a very quick response all works except the read more link its not linking to anything cant even be clicked, i am runing the latest RN and using simple_blue theme http://phpnuke-install.com

EDIT
It works on some of the news links just not the top one

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:32 am Post subject:

I put the wrong place to put the code, sorry.

a few lines down from find

Code:

$story_link = '<a href="news.html?amp;file=article&amp;sid=' . $sid . '">';

after that add

Code:

$charlimit = 150;


if (strlen($hometext) <= $charlimit)


{


               $hometext = $hometext;


}else{


               $hometext = substr($hometext, 0, strrpos(substr($hometext, 0, $charlimit), ' ')) . '&nbsp;&nbsp;'.$story_link.'' . _READMORE . '</a>';


}

I called story_link before it was set....
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Regular Joined: Apr 20, 2010 Posts: 11

Spot on m8 thanks for the help truly an amazing service you offer

Snype

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:20 pm Post subject:

I came up with a simple title link mod too.

after

Code:

$story_link = '<a href="news.html?amp;file=article&amp;sid=' . $sid . '">';

add

Code:

$title= ''.$story_link.''.$title.'</a>';

It seems to work with most themes although I did not test them all.

If you use this with the Tricked Out News mod, you will need to make 2 changes.

in modules/News/index.php around line 191 and 220 find:

Code:

 line 191  if ($fullcount > 0) {


                          $bottomlink = '<a title="'.$title.'" class="colorbox3 





            line 220   $toplink .= '<a title="'.$title.'" class="colorbox3

and remove

Code:

title="'.$title.'"

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Regular Joined: Apr 20, 2010 Posts: 11

That worked a treat thanks again nuken

Blingaholic Joined: May 19, 2009 Posts: 24 votes: 1

I added some configuration settings and associated logic to enable the ability to configure:
* Link to story on title on index page
* View PDF
* Allow, display ratings
* Allow, display Send to Friend

I also added the HTML compliance fix for the Google link on social bookmarks.

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:06 am Post subject:

Thank you.
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