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[michaelbanks Friend michaelbanksJoin date: November 2008Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#137247

Hello all,

I want to use the JA News module slightly differently than it is currently set up, and wondered whether this is possible??

I and to display the categories description, not the news articles under the category on the front page, and then under that will display the category articles.

Does anyone know how to go about doing this?

Thanks,

Michael
http://www.ambassadorpress.co.uk/index.php
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#287437

Dear michaelbanks !

yes, it it posible , you can do it following way below :

Open blog_item.php file in templatesja_uvitehtmlmod_janews folder, find following code section at about line 53 :


<?php
if($maxchars > strlen($row->introtext1)) {
echo $row->introtext;
} else {
echo $row->introtext1;
}
?>


change to :


<?php
if($maxchars > strlen($row->introtext1)) {
echo $row->catdesc;
} else {
echo $row->catdesc;
}
?>


[michaelbanks Friend michaelbanksJoin date: November 2008Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#287441

That is great, works a treat, apart from it still takes an image from an article under each section, and does not resize the image I have in the category description.

Is there any way of getting rid of the first image and resize the second one??

http://www.ambassadorpress.co.uk/index.php

Much appreciated.

Michael

[michaelbanks Friend michaelbanksJoin date: November 2008Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#287443

Just noticed, also when I click the READ MORE link for each category description, it takes me through to the article relating to the first image. Can this also be changed?

Thanks.

[michaelbanks Friend michaelbanksJoin date: November 2008Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#289634

Hi,

I notice you have marked the thread as answered, but there is still an issue as outlined above.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Michael

[michaelbanks Friend michaelbanksJoin date: November 2008Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#289650

OK, have been trying to work through this myself, and have managed to get the title to display correctly and link through to the category rather than the article, but I still have an issue with the article image being displayed, and the category image being displayed but at the wrong size, and also the read more link linking through to an article not the category.

I think the piece of code that requires changing is…

<?php
$i = 0;
while($i < $introitems && $i<count($rows)) {
$row = $rows[$i];
$link = JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute($row->slug, $row->catslug, $row->sectionid));
$image = modJANewsHelper::replaceImage ($row, $img_align, $autoresize, $maxchars, $showimage, $img_w, $img_h, $hiddenClasses);
//Show the latest news
?>

but I cannot figure out how to get it to link to the category description instead of the articles.

Any thoughts??

Thanks.

Michael

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