Dynamic frontpage

Friday 25 March 2005 6:47:43 am

Can someone please give me a few pointers on creating a dynamic fronpage?

Any information would be most welcome.

Friday 25 March 2005 8:16:38 am

Ok, perhaps I should give you a little more information about what I want to achieve.

I want a dynamic frontpage that updates each day with the latest stories that are being fetched from 5 or 6 different nodes. I want one main story, two secondery stories and a list of the latest articles - coming from the different nodes - running underneath them.

I have followed the tutorial without too much difficulty but of course the frontpage there is static and isn't what I want.

thanks and sorry for being so brief previously!

Tuesday 29 March 2005 8:34:51 am

something that might help, you can sort your fetch so that it only includes things like, a specific class. For example, put

class_filter_type,include,class_filter_array,array(12)

into your fetch parameters

{section loop=fetch( content,list, hash( parent_node_id,  $node.node_id,class_filter_type,include,class_filter_array,array(12)
 ) ) }
{$:item.name|wash}
{/section}

and you SHOULD get just content objects that are of class 12 (in this case, files)

I'm sure there is one that is like "published date" too...

Tuesday 29 March 2005 3:09:36 pm

To add a bit of my frontpage.tpl code here is the first bit:

<B>{let news_list=fetch( content, tree, hash( parent_node_id, 143,
                                           limit, 3,
                                           sort_by, array( published, false() ),
                                           attribute_filter, array( array( 248, '=', '1' ) ),
                                            ) )}</B>