Displaying picked articles in the home frontpage [SOLVED]

Wednesday 25 August 2010 11:30:47 am

Hi there!

Struggling again!

I have a main folder that contains number of sub-folders each of them containing sub-folders which contain articles.

In the home page (embedded in the center column of the frontpage class) I need to display the preview (just the article's date and the short description) of some articles picked from different folders (e.g. folder1/subfolder5/subfolder7/article2 - folder3/subfolder5/subfolder4/article8 - and so on) which my client has to decide at his own discretion on a daily basis and a straightfoward action (really handy!).

...

My poor and definitely wrong attempt was:
- from the administration side, I created an extra folder object.
- Picked some articles from different location and add a collocation to this new created folder.
- In the center column of the home page frontpage embedded the "highligh articles" folder "Vertically listed sub items".
- tried to override the view of the line/article.tpl by creating a new override file line/article_preview.tpl strictly related to this page only which anyway I couldn't make it work!

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

loredanaebook.it

Wednesday 25 August 2010 1:05:56 pm

Right guess.. it's based on eZ publish.

Tell me I can make it somehow..!

loredanaebook.it

Friday 27 August 2010 5:39:19 am

Gabriel, Thank you for your reply.

What you say is not wrong (I thought the same way too as a possible solution) but the thing is that the Home page is the root. When I create an object of the class under it, it is added as a top menu link.
Although I can prevent it from being displayed with a customized if condition, I have been thinking of another way:

In the frontpage.tpl file, inside /extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/override/templates/full/ (I use ezwebin extension), on the top of center-column, included an external file..

<div class="center-column-position">
            <div class="float-break center-column">
                <div class="overflow-fix">
                <!-- Content: START -->
{if $node.node_id|eq(2)}
  {include uri='design:content/primo_piano.tpl'}
{/if}
...

..which a created inside /extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates.content/...

<h2 class="primopiano">Primo Piano</h2>
{def $news=fetch('content', 'tree', hash('parent_node_id', 2, 'sort_by', array('attribute', false(), 'article/publish_date'), 'class_filter_type', 'include', 'class_filter_array', array('article'), 'limit', 5))}
{foreach $news as $new}
   <p><strong>Data: {$new.object.data_map.publish_date.content.timestamp|l10n('shortdate')}</strong>
   <br />
   <a href={$new.url|ezurl}>{attribute_view_gui attribute=$new.object.data_map.intro}</a></p>
{/foreach}

The outcome is pretty close to the desired one... but in this way what I get is the latest inserted articles, no the selected one!

Is there a way I can obtain, through a condition or a filter, the articles picked by a human? And how can I allow him to do so?

Thanks again!

loredanaebook.it

Saturday 25 September 2010 1:12:57 pm

<div class="center-column-position">
            <div class="float-break center-column">
                <div class="overflow-fix">
                <!-- Content: START -->
{if $node.node_id|eq(2)}
  {include uri='design:content/primo_piano.tpl'}
{/if}
...

<h2 class="primopiano">Primo Piano</h2>
{def $news=fetch('content', 'tree', hash('parent_node_id', 2, 'sort_by', array('attribute', false(), 'article/publish_date'), 'class_filter_type', 'include', 'class_filter_array', array('article'), 'limit', 5))}
{foreach $news as $new}
   <p><strong>Data: {$new.object.data_map.publish_date.content.timestamp|l10n('shortdate')}</strong>
   <br />
   <a href={$new.url|ezurl}>{attribute_view_gui attribute=$new.object.data_map.intro}</a></p>
{/foreach}

.. I thought I could use attribute_filter .. so if they like an article to be displayed in the Highlights section they can select the "highlights" option through an article object attribute..

So I modified the original article class and added a selection attribute identified as "section_selection" where I listed the possible options: - none, - Primo piano, - other options..

Modified then the newly created primo_piano.tpl this way:

...
{def $news=fetch('content', 'tree', hash('parent_node_id', 2, 'sort_by', array('attribute', false(), 'article/publish_date'), 'class_filter_type', 'include', 'class_filter_array', array('article'), 'limit', 5, 'attribute_filter', array(array('article/section_selection', '=', "Primo piano"))))}

{foreach $news as $new}
...

but it doesn't work as it should...

Do you see where I might be wrong in here?!

..'attribute_filter', array(array('article/section_selection', '=', "Primo piano"))..

loredanaebook.it

Saturday 25 September 2010 2:20:39 pm

I know it's Saturday night.. a very slightly chance to have somebody there thinking of sorting other programmers' eZ problems out...

Anyway..

I am almost there: I tried to change the string options into numbers: - empty, - 1, - 2,..

In this way the attribute_filter does what I want:

.. 'attribute_filter', array(array('article/section_selection', '=', 1))..

..even thoght the string is more suitable to my needs... Why a string shouldn't work?

Plus I might need to make this a little more flexible: I mean, the priority goes to the selected ones but, if no selection is made or less than the five I want to be there, 5 articles ordered by date have to be shown any way.

loredanaebook.it

Sunday 26 September 2010 9:26:21 am

It might not be the right way to go but I kind of made up a working solution..!!

Here it is:

<h2 class="primopiano">Highlights</h2>
{def $news=fetch('content', 'tree', hash('parent_node_id', 2, 'sort_by', array('attribute', false(), 'article/publish_date'), 'class_filter_type', 'include', 'class_filter_array', array('article'), 'limit', 5, 'attribute_filter', array(array('article/section_selection', '=', 1))))}




<ul class="primopiano-list">


{def $counter=0}


{foreach $news as $new}

{set $counter= inc($counter)}
   <li><h3 class="data-info">{Date:{$new.object.data_map.publish_date.content.timestamp|l10n('shortdate')}</h3>
   <a href={$new.url|ezurl}>{attribute_view_gui attribute=$new.object.data_map.intro} &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></li>
{/foreach}



{def $limit = 5|sub($counter)}
{if $limit|gt(0)}
{def $more_news=fetch('content', 'tree', hash('parent_node_id', 2, 'sort_by', array('attribute', false(), 'article/publish_date'), 'class_filter_type', 'include', 'class_filter_array', array('article'), 'limit', $limit, 'attribute_filter', array(array('article/section_selection', '!=', 1))))}






{foreach $more_news as $one_more}
   <li><h3 class="data-info">{Date:{$one_more.object.data_map.publish_date.content.timestamp|l10n('shortdate')}</h3>
   <a href={$one_more.url|ezurl}>{attribute_view_gui attribute=$one_more.object.data_map.intro} &gt;&gt;&gt;</a></li>
{/foreach}
{/if}



</ul>

.... and solved!

loredanaebook.it

Monday 27 September 2010 10:20:42 am

...Ok.. thanks for letting me know!

loredanaebook.it