Code Snippet: Display news items, anywhere

[aldus]

Hello bikerider

I'm pretty sure that there are error-messages if you try to set the PHP-Error-Reporting-Level to "E_ALL".

Some copy and paste errors, as the function is named "displayNewsItems" ..

Code:

<?php 
if(function_exists('displayNewsItems')) {
    displayNewsItems( 0, 5, 50, 1, "", "mehr lesen", "aktuell gibt es keine news...", false);
} else {
    echo 'Requires code snippet anynews (WB addons repository) to display news here.';
}
?>

Regards
Aldus

[bikerider]

  sorry - twice...

thank you so much!!!

[snark]

Anyone who knows wether I can use the anynews for the mediablog module

[micklan]

Hi!

Why i receive the "&rsquo;" syntax in news instead of  " ' " character ?

Thanks you!

[tiesy]

I´ve a problem with allowed tags and didn´t find a solution:

The tag-brackets (<,>) will be replaced with "&lt;" or "&gt;". So, if I allow some tags, the sourcecode is shown in the output.

I use wb2.8 and the newest version of anynews.
 

[WebBird]

Have you tried the 'strip_tags' and 'allowed_tags' options of the displayNewsItems() method?

Code:

strip_tags...         true:=remove tags from short and long text (default:=true); false:=don´t strip tags
allowed_tags...        tags not striped off (default:='<p><a><img>')

See included help files for details.

[tiesy]

Hi WebBird!

Yes, I did. This is my snippet in a code-section:

if (function_exists('displayNewsItems')) {
    displayNewsItems(2, 2, 200, 5, DE, true,'<p><a><img>', 1, 0);
}

I also tried "false" instead of "true". The problem is the same.

Do you see any mistake?

[WebBird]

Cannot reproduce this error. Use "false" instead of "true" and wrap DE in quotes, please.

Code:

if (function_exists('displayNewsItems')) {
   displayNewsItems(2, 2, 200, 5, 'DE', false,'<p><a><img>', 1, 0);
}

Also, you use a custom template, so please try to replace 5 with 1 for testing. (Which means "details".)

[doc]

Hi,

maybe consider to write your anynews function calls as follows (helps to keep track of the various parameters).

Code:

<?php
if (function_exists('displayNewsItems')) {
   displayNewsItems($group_id = 2, 
      $max_news_items = 2, $max_news_length = 200, 
      $display_mode = 5, $lang_id = 'DE',
      $strip_tags = false, $allowed_tags = '<p><a><img>', 
      $custom_placeholder = false, 
      $sort_by = 4, $sort_order = 1, $not_older_than = 0
   );
}
?>

You should check $display_mode (5 uses a custom template) and the last two parameters.

Doc

[tiesy]

Hi Doc & WebBird,

thanks for your help. I´ve tested your solutions, changed true to false, but the problem stays on. Could it have something to do with the installed php-version?

[WebBird]

Could it have something to do with the installed php-version?

Which is...?

Is the HTML correct on the News page itself?

[tiesy]

Yes, I´ve made no changes in the html-code on news-section. It´s a fresh wb-installation. The php-version is 4.3.9.
I know, that php5 is required for wb 2.8., but exept of anynews it works without any problems.

[joep]

I have a question.

I use this code:

Code:

displayNewsItems(array(10,11, 12, 13, 14), 5, 0, 0, false);

I don't know much abouth anynews yet!!

What i trie to achief is a block with new items from several groups, showing only the title of the post.

So not the date, or the dots on the bottom. And not the title (Latest News).

It worked with this code:

Code:

$group = 9; // Specify the Group(id) you want to read the news from

global $database;

$query = "SELECT post_id,title,group_id,link FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."mod_news_posts WHERE group_id = $group ORDER BY position DESC LIMIT 0, 3;";

/*This limits the results to max 5, so if you want it to be 10, make it LIMIT 0, 10. The first number defines the starting point, and the second the max/end of the results */

$error = mysql_error();
if (!$result = mysql_query($query)) {
  print "$error";
  exit;
}

while($data = mysql_fetch_object($result)){
  $title = $data->title;
  $id = $data->post_id;
  $link = $data->link;
  echo '<li><a href="'.WB_URL.'/pages/'.$link.PAGE_EXTENSION.'">'.$title.'</a>'.$short.'</li>'; // the loop

}
echo "</ul>"; // end of the loop

the problem with this code is that it only works with one group.

the link to my page is :
http://www.studiozi.com/wb

Thanq in advanced

[WebBird]

Yes, it works only for one group. (Or use 0 for "get from all groups".)

What is the question?

[WebBird]

Yes, I´ve made no changes in the html-code on news-section. It´s a fresh wb-installation. The php-version is 4.3.9.
I know, that php5 is required for wb 2.8., but exept of anynews it works without any problems.

I've tried with PHP 4.4.9, but I still can't reproduce the error. Can you show us?

[joep]

My question is.

Is it possible to use multiple groups. for example group 3 and 4.
I have 8 groups.
7 of them i want to use.

Maybe i can use somkind of array??

[doc]

@joep:
You can define all groups ($group_id = 0), a single group ($group_id = x) or a collection of groups ($group_id = array(3,4)). Details about the possible function parameters are provided in the Readme file of the module. A function call with two groups can be found in section "Example for a customized call:" of the Readme.

Please make sure you are using the latest version of anynews.

Doc

[tiesy]

Hi WebBird,

no, I can´t for the moment, it´s not public yet. But I made some screenshots, where you can see, what happens.

[WebBird]

Well, on the screenshot the strip_tags param is set to true, which means "strip all tags", and the lang_id is still not enclosed in quotes.

[tiesy]

It makes no difference, if I change the parameter from true to false. Language in quotes or not is all the same. I think it has to do with the server-setup.

[WebBird]

Yes, I'd say it's the most probable explanation. Anyway, I don't know what to look for.

[aldus]

Hello

As far as i can reproduce this bug it has to do within the max-char restriction, e.g. 200 chars,
in the short-message as the function "wordwrap2" converts htmlentities ... so the brakets became
"&lt;" and "&gt;" - also the quotes to &quote ...

To avoid this i've add

Code:

<?php
 $restore = array (
    '&lt;' => "<",
    '&gt;' => ">",
    '&quote;' => "\""
);
$temp[0] = str_replace(array_keys($restore), array_values($restore), $temp[0]);
?>

to the function "wordwrap2" in the bottom of the include.php,
but i'm pretty sure that were are more elegant ways to solve this.

Kind regards
Aldus

[WebBird]

Ah. This also explains the problem "micklan" has with &rsquo;. Funny that I can't reproduce it... I'll try to find a solution. Thank you very much Aldus!!!

[WebBird]

I also found that it is ... uhm ... "not nice" if there are any opening HTML tags in the remaining text, so I worked on a solution to close these tags, too. I'm not very happy with the code, but if it works, it's better than leaving it as is.

Can someone please do some tests with the include.php attached?

Edit: Removed attachment

[tiesy]

Hi WebBird,
I have tested your include.php an it works as you explained. Many thanks for that.
It´s better than before, but not a real solution for the problem. Now it cuts all news-entries even if to long html-commands found in only one news-entry.

I don´t know how to make it, but the anynews-function "max_news_length" should not count the characters of html-tags and not replace the brackets in principle.