News section only in the first page

Monday 12 April 2004 6:32:43 am

You could do this a couple of different ways.

1. Create an override template for your main node that includes the News. Then, in the template(s) used for the rest of the site, do not include the code to display the news section. If you are using a fetch to generate a navigation list, you will want to exclude the main node for the News section.

2. If you want to use a single template for the entire site, you could set up a section show block that will check which node is being displayed, and if the node happens to be your main one then it would display the news code, otherwise it would not display anything. An example:

I recommend you use the first choice as it should be more efficient.

Does this help?
Alex

Alex
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Tuesday 13 April 2004 6:39:02 am

To retrieve the list of news articles you can use a fetch. Below is some example code that I took from http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/building_an_ez_publish_site/the_news_page/news_archive and modified slightly.

{* Grab all the news articles. *}
{let children=fetch( content,
                     list,
                     hash( parent_node_id, XXX,
                           sort_by, $node.sort_array,
                           class_filter_type, include,
                           class_filter_array, array( 'article' ) 
                         )
                    )
}
<table class="news_archive">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <b>Article:</b>
        </td>
        <td>
            <b>Published:</b>
        </td>
    </tr>
    {* Loop through all articles that we just fetched. *}
    {section name=Child loop=$children}
    <tr>
        <td>
            {* Display a link to the article. *}
            <a href={$:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$:item.name}</a>
            <br />
        </td>
        <td>
            {* Display the date the article was published. *}
            {$:item.object.published|l10n(shortdate)}
        </td>
    </tr>
    {* End of loop. *}
    {/section}
</table>
{/let}

Note, you need to change the XXX in the fourth line of the example to the node ID of your news folder.

<b>Fetch Documentation:</b> http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/development/libraries/ez_template/operators/data_fetch
<b>Examples of Fetch:</b> http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/customization/tips_tricks/fetch_function_examples

Alex

Alex
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<i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

Tuesday 13 April 2004 7:54:08 am

Glad to hear it! The system can be a bit confusing at first, but the power behind it is great once you know how to use it.

Alex

Alex
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<i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

Wednesday 14 April 2004 6:48:22 am

Alex, now I have two pagelayout.tpl, one with news, another without news. How i do to the first page be with news, and when we click in any link, the news dissapear??

Thursday 15 April 2004 6:39:27 am

Alex, thank you for all, it works!!
Thanks!

Thursday 15 April 2004 3:47:21 pm

Alex, a new question...if I want another first page (the initial page), with a flash animation, how I make this?

Sunday 18 April 2004 4:56:30 am

In the first page I have a flash movie, it works, the file .swf, is placed in c:\eZpublish\ezpublish\. Now i want to pu in the second page the same flash, because is a header.where i place the .swf file (the location)? Or there are another way to tell to ezpublish to do not process the swf files???

Help me Alex, my friend!

Thursday 08 September 2005 12:53:17 pm

How do I modify this code to only fetch articles from the year 2004?

{* Grab all the news articles. *}
{let children=fetch( content,
                     list,
                     hash( parent_node_id, XXX,
                           sort_by, $node.sort_array,
                           class_filter_type, include,
                           class_filter_array, array( 'article' ) 
                         )
                    )
}
<table class="news_archive">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <b>Article:</b>
        </td>
        <td>
            <b>Published:</b>
        </td>
    </tr>
    {* Loop through all articles that we just fetched. *}
    {section name=Child loop=$children}
    <tr>
        <td>
            {* Display a link to the article. *}
            <a href={$:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$:item.name}</a>
            <br />
        </td>
        <td>
            {* Display the date the article was published. *}
            {$:item.object.published|l10n(shortdate)}
        </td>
    </tr>
    {* End of loop. *}
    {/section}
</table>
{/let}

Friday 09 September 2005 2:32:51 am

Thanks Kristof, the code worked great.
Problem solved :)