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[tophe Friend topheJoin date: June 2006Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#135177

Hi,
Because I am putting number icons in the Category Names of the news item boxes, I need for the newsitem Category boxes to read left to right in their ordering…
— Please see the attached screen cap. Site is not live yet so no url posible.

That is:
In ja_news I would like to make blog.php put category items on the page like this:
1 2 3
4 5 6

– and NOT
1 3 5
2 4 6

Reordering categories in the mod_janews module params… (from within Joomla Admin)… does not do it.
I have tried all sorts of tweaks to the FOR loops in blog.php… to no avail.

Any help from a real programmer familiar with ja_news would be appreciated.
Thanks

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[Anonymous Moderator JA DeveloperJoin date: September 2014Posts: 9914Downloads:207Uploads:152 Thanks: 1789 Thanked: 2008 times in 1700 posts]

#278527

Hi tophe,

You can change this script in this blog.php file:

<?php
$k = 0;
for ($z = 0; $z < $cols; $z ++) :
$cls = $cols==1?’full’:($z==0?’left’:($z==$cols-1?’right’:’center’));
?>
<div class=”jazin-<?php echo $cls;?>” style=”width:<?php echo $width;?>%”>
<?php for ($y = 0; $y < ($news / $cols) && $k<$news; $y ++) :
$params->set(‘blog_theme’, $themes[$k]);
$rows = $contents[$k];
if($catid) {
include(dirname(__FILE__).’/blog_item.php’);
}
$k++;
endfor; ?>
</div>
<?php endfor; ?>

To

<?php for ($y = 0; $y < ($news ) ; $y ++) :

$cls = $y % $cols == 0 ?’left’:(($y + 1) % $cols == 0?’right’:’center’);

if($y % $cols == 0){
echo “<div style=’clear:both’></div>”;
}

?>

<div class=”jazin-<?php echo $cls?>” style=”width:<?php echo $width;?>%”>
<?php
$params->set(‘blog_theme’, $themes[$y]);
$rows = $contents[$y];
if($catid) {
include(dirname(__FILE__).’/blog_item.php’);
}
?>
</div>
<?php
endfor; ?>

You can use $y parameter for your requirement.
I had checked. It worked very good.

1 user says Thank You to JA Developer for this useful post

1. tophe

[tophe Friend topheJoin date: June 2006Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#278533

Thanks JA Dev,

That solution worked a treat and saved some of my hair as well….
… once I translated the smiley !… For others the above sad-smiley = colon ((

May you and your family grow rich and happy 😀

********
For anyone else trying to achieve this result:

I varied blog_item.php as follows:
First, I setup a folder of number icons in joomla-root/images/num (make or find your own icons)

Then, in blog_item.php at around line 25


$num = $y + 1 ; // the $y carries over from the blog.php solution as per "JA Dev" solution in this thread.
$str_imgNum = "<img src='images/num/num_gold_" . $num . ".gif' width='18' height='18' border='0'>";
?>
<div class="jazin-boxwrap jazin-theme<?php echo $cls_sufix;?>">
<div class="jazin-box">
<?php if ($showcattitle) : ?>
<div class="jazin-section clearfix">
<a href="<?php echo $catlink;?>" title="<?php echo trim(strip_tags($catdesc));?>">
<span><?php echo $str_imgNum ; ?> <?php echo $cattitle;?></span>
</a>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>


Also, you will probably want to look at ja.new.css for the appropriate classes
div.jazin-section a span {
…
}
Tophe

[noibihappy2009 Friend noibihappy2009Join date: January 2009Posts: 62Downloads:0Uploads:8 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#289855

I’m not really understand

Hack blog.php and blog_item.php both of it ???
What’s $num use for ?

[tophe Friend topheJoin date: June 2006Posts: 24Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#289970

Hi,
If you look here…
http://d1152899.i86.quadrahosting.com.au/ – just a devevlopment site I’m working on.

You see I have the news blocks witha NUMBER icon in each box – because my client wanted it to be so.

In the above post, $num is there to vary the tag for the icon:

<img src='images/num/num_gold_" . $num . ".gif'
so, with each loop cycle, I get:
num_gold_1.gif
num_gold_2.gif
num_gold_3.gif
… etc

As stated above,
First, I setup a folder of number icons in joomla-root/images/num (make or find your own icons)

Of course, if you don’t wish to use number icons …. just ignore the post about varying blog_item.php

Hope that helps to clear it up… I thought I had made it clear 🙂

[noibihappy2009 Friend noibihappy2009Join date: January 2009Posts: 62Downloads:0Uploads:8 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#290016

<em>@JA Developer 89940 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi tophe,

You can change this script in this blog.php file:

<?php
$k = 0;
for ($z = 0; $z < $cols; $z ++) :
$cls = $cols==1?’full’:($z==0?’left’:($z==$cols-1?’right’:’center’));
?>
<div class=”jazin-<?php echo $cls;?>” style=”width:<?php echo $width;?>%”>
<?php for ($y = 0; $y < ($news / $cols) && $k<$news; $y ++) :
$params->set(‘blog_theme’, $themes[$k]);
$rows = $contents[$k];
if($catid) {
include(dirname(__FILE__).’/blog_item.php’);
}
$k++;
endfor; ?>
</div>
<?php endfor; ?>

To

<?php for ($y = 0; $y < ($news ) ; $y ++) :

$cls = $y % $cols == 0 ?’left’:(($y + 1) % $cols == 0?’right’:’center’);

if($y % $cols == 0){
echo “<div style=’clear:both’></div>”;
}

?>

<div class=”jazin-<?php echo $cls?>” style=”width:<?php echo $width;?>%”>
<?php
$params->set(‘blog_theme’, $themes[$y]);
$rows = $contents[$y];
if($catid) {
include(dirname(__FILE__).’/blog_item.php’);
}
?>
</div>
<?php
endfor; ?>

You can use $y parameter for your requirement.
I had checked. It worked very good.</blockquote>

Thank you, and in this code what’s use for $y ?

[noibihappy2009 Friend noibihappy2009Join date: January 2009Posts: 62Downloads:0Uploads:8 Thanked: 6 times in 1 posts]

#290017

Thank you.
But still have prob with your patch on blog
Example

CatA | Cat B (for some reason these text is longer)
——– | ——-
——- | ——–
xxxxxx x ——–
xxxxxx x ——–
xxxxxx x ——–
Cat C | Cat D

x: space (nothing show on)
I want fix it like this
CatA | Cat B (for some reason these text is longer)
——– | ——-
——- | ——–
Cat C | ——–
—– | ——–
—– | ——–
| Cat D

Thank you so lot

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