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[wombat1 Friend wombat1Join date: March 2010Posts: 117Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 38 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#152138

i was wondering why the user settings allow certain configurations unavailable to the administrator.
For example in one section i wish to use show 6 categories default however the default is 3 and cannot be changed by admin must be changed by user.

Any possibility to edit specific sections in JA News from the back end so that it will display 6 or 9 categories instead of 3.

Thank you

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<em>@wombat1 184486 wrote:</em><blockquote>i was wondering why the user settings allow certain configurations unavailable to the administrator.
For example in one section i wish to use show 6 categories default however the default is 3 and cannot be changed by admin must be changed by user.

Any possibility to edit specific sections in JA News from the back end so that it will display 6 or 9 categories instead of 3.

Thank you</blockquote>

Dear wombat1,

Did you want to set the number of categories display per section on the back-end of the ja news2 moudle ?

If that please kindly try as follows steps

Step 1 ) Adding the categories number field on the ja news2’s back-end
Go to modules/mod_janews2/mod_janews2.xml file ,Look for this xml tag
<param name=”cols” type=”text” default=”2″ label=”COLUMNS” description=”HOW MANY COLUMNS PER ROW (SET TO ZERO IF YOU WANT TO DISABLE OTHER NEWS ITEMS)” />
add below it this tag
<param name=”catnumber” type=”text” default=”3″ label=”CATEGORIES NUMBER” description=”HOW MANY CATEGORIES DISPLAY PER SECTION” />

also open language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_janews2.ini adding at it’s bottom these lines
CATEGORIES NUMBER=Categories Number
HOW MANY CATEGORIES DISPLAY PER SECTION=How many categories display per section

Step 1 ) Changing the logic code
Go to modules/mod_janews2/helper.php file and Look for this function
[PHP]function loadCategories($sid) {
$categories = array ();
$catids = $this->getUserSetting ( $sid, ‘categories’ );

$where = ”;
$limit = 0;
if ($catids) {
if (is_array ( $catids ))
$where .= ” AND `id` in (” . implode ( ‘,’, $catids ) . “)”;
} else {
if (is_array ( $this->getUserSetting ( $sid ) ))
$where = ” AND 0″;
else
$limit = ( int ) $this->get ( ‘cols’, 2 );
}

$db = & JFactory::getDBO ();
$query = “SELECT `id`, `title`, `description`, CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(`alias`) THEN CONCAT_WS(“:”, `id`, `alias`) ELSE `id` END as `slug` FROM `#__categories` s WHERE published = 1 and section=” . ( int ) $sid . $where .’ ORDER BY s.ordering’;
$db->setQuery ( $query, 0, $limit );
$rows = $db->loadObjectList ( ‘id’ );
foreach ( $rows as $cid => $row ) {
$obj = new stdclass ( );
$obj->category = $row;
$categories [] = $obj;
}
return $categories;
}[/PHP]

Replace to

[PHP]function loadCategories($sid) {
$categories = array ();
$catids = $this->getUserSetting ( $sid, ‘categories’ );

$where = ”;
$limit = 0;
if ($catids) {
if (is_array ( $catids ))
$where .= ” AND `id` in (” . implode ( ‘,’, $catids ) . “)”;
} else {
if (is_array ( $this->getUserSetting ( $sid ) )) {
$where = ” AND 0″;
}
else if ($this->get ( ‘catnumber’, 3 )) { $limit = ( int ) $this->get ( ‘catnumber’, 2 ); }
else {
$limit = ( int ) $this->get ( ‘cols’, 2 );
}
}
//echo $this->get ( ‘catnumber’, 2 );die();
$db = & JFactory::getDBO ();
$query = “SELECT `id`, `title`, `description`, CASE WHEN CHAR_LENGTH(`alias`) THEN CONCAT_WS(“:”, `id`, `alias`) ELSE `id` END as `slug` FROM `#__categories` s WHERE published = 1 and section=” . ( int ) $sid . $where .’ ORDER BY s.ordering’;
$db->setQuery ( $query, 0, $limit );
$rows = $db->loadObjectList ( ‘id’ );
foreach ( $rows as $cid => $row ) {
$obj = new stdclass ( );
$obj->category = $row;
$categories [] = $obj;
}
return $categories;
}[/PHP]

Now you can go to the ja news2’s back-end and set the number of categories display as you want

I hope these will help !

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1. wombat1

[wombat1 Friend wombat1Join date: March 2010Posts: 117Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 38 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#348740

Thank you very much, this worked, it does set all sections to have the same number but this is all i needed.

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