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[todhost Friend todhostJoin date: August 2011Posts: 91Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 6 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#191385

Latest article module on position Home-10 shows most popular article instead of most recent article. Could this be an error? Any fix?

[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#509006

Hi todhost,

The latest module is working well.
It is not really the latest module.
We have custom it so that it will have a different behavior as below:
1. We will select 4 (or the number articles setting in module) latest articles.
2. We will pick the most read article among them (by hits count)
3. Display the most read article as the spotlight one, and also display 3 related article with this article.
4. Display the rest articles at bottom of module.

You can try to create 4 news articles and check for this behavior.

Regards

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#509042

Hello,
Please how can change things to have the most recent article display as the spotlight image nstead of the most read

Thank you for helping.

[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#509104

Hi todhost,

It is easy to change the behavior. Please open templatesja_magzhtmlmod_articles_latestfocus.php and comment out these two lines of code:

//sort those latest article by hits
$compare = create_function('$a, $b', ' if ($a->hits == $b->hits) { return 0; } return ($a->hits < $b->hits) ? 1 : -1; ');
uasort($list, $compare);

Regards

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#509124

Thanks. Fixed.

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#509542

Issue resolved.

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#515722

<em>@Wall Crasher 393756 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi todhost,

It is easy to change the behavior. Please open templatesja_magzhtmlmod_articles_latestfocus.php and comment out these two lines of code:

//sort those latest article by hits
$compare = create_function('$a, $b', ' if ($a->hits == $b->hits) { return 0; } return ($a->hits < $b->hits) ? 1 : -1; ');
uasort($list, $compare);

Regards</blockquote>

I have a question. hello.
and can be more accurate to say? what to do with the code? Thank you.

Comment out what it means?

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#515723

<em>@todhost 394309 wrote:</em><blockquote>Issue resolved.</blockquote>

I have a question. hello.
and can be more accurate to say? what to do with the code? Thank you.

Comment out what it means?

[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#515795

Hi 2capjob,

<blockquote>Comment out what it means?</blockquote>

I mean you can turn these line of code to php comment statement
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_syntax.asp

Or you can simply delete it.

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[angie00 Friend angie00Join date: November 2011Posts: 294Downloads:0Uploads:80 Thanked: 10 times in 1 posts]

#521009

If codes is left as is, it shows most recent 4 articles in alphabetical order with main showing introtext.

If I comment out those two lines, it does show most recent 4 articles ordered by recently published but also shows related links under main article.

What I would like to have is most recent published article as main with intro text without related links.

How do I do this?

Thanks!

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[Wall Crasher Developer Wall CrasherJoin date: December 2011Posts: 1113Downloads:0Uploads:15 Thanks: 66 Thanked: 361 times in 300 posts]

#521037

@ angie00,

If you do not want to show related links, just change (line 28)

$related = MagzHelper::related($focus);

to

$related = array();

Hope it helps.

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