Topic: Need Help! Board News Block to display all topics but in different pages

[turborz]

Hello guys,

this question might be asked before but I cant seem to track down any post~

What Im trying to do is like this Simple Portal website's front page. To have more than 1 page showing the Board News instead of showing all 50 or 100 topics all in 1 page.

Cheers,

R

[Nathaniel]

There is a SimplePortal option called 'Maximum articles per page:' in your admin panel under SPortal -> General Settings. If you set that to say 3, as this website has and you have more than 3 published articles then there will be multiple pages.

[turborz]

but is there a way so I do not have to select articles one by one. I want all of them to be there and all the new one will automatically there???

[Nathaniel]

Ah, I seem to have misinterpreted you slightly. Below are some edits for the 'Board News Block' that will give it the same 'Pages' feature that SimplePortal articles have. All these edits are for your '/sources/SPortal1-1' file. If you are using SMF 2 then I'll have to change the edits slightly.

Find this code:

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$context['page_index'] = constructPageIndex($scripturl . '?sa=articles', $_REQUEST['start'], $totalArticles, $modSettings['articleperpage']);
$context['start'] = $_REQUEST['start'];

Replace with this code:

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$context['start'] = !empty($_REQUEST['start']) && $_REQUEST['sa'] != 'boardnews' ? $_REQUEST['start'] : 0;
$context['page_index'] = constructPageIndex($scripturl . '?sa=articles', $context['start'], $totalArticles, $modSettings['articleperpage']);

Find this code:

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// Make sure guests can see this board.
$request = db_query("
SELECT ID_BOARD
FROM {$db_prefix}boards
WHERE " . ($board === null ? '' : "ID_BOARD = $board
AND ") . "FIND_IN_SET(-1, memberGroups)
LIMIT 1", __FILE__, __LINE__);
if (mysql_num_rows($request) == 0)
{
echo $txt['smf_news_error2'];
return false;
}
list ($board) = mysql_fetch_row($request);
mysql_free_result($request);
Replace with this code:

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// Make sure guests can see this board.
$request = db_query("
SELECT ID_BOARD
FROM {$db_prefix}boards
WHERE " . ($board === null ? '' : "ID_BOARD = $board
AND ") . "FIND_IN_SET(-1, memberGroups)
LIMIT 1", __FILE__, __LINE__);
if (mysql_num_rows($request) == 0)
{
echo $txt['smf_news_error2'];
return false;
}
list ($board) = mysql_fetch_row($request);
mysql_free_result($request);

// Get the total number of topics.
$request = db_query("
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM {$db_prefix}topics
" . ($board === null ? '' : "WHERE ID_BOARD = $board"), __FILE__, __LINE__);
list ($num_topics) = mysql_fetch_row($request);
mysql_free_result($request);

$num_pages = 5;
$start = !empty($_REQUEST['sa']) &&  $_REQUEST['sa'] == 'boardnews' ? $_REQUEST['start'] : 0;
Find this code:

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}

function sp_smfShop()
{Replace with this code:

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echo $txt['sp-articlesPages'], ': ', constructPageIndex($scripturl . '?sa=boardnews', $start, min($num_pages * $limit, $num_topics), $limit);
}

function sp_smfShop()
{
You can change the '5' from the "$num_pages = 5;" code, if you want to change the max number of pages shown. The number of topics shown per page is take from the 'Topics to display' setting in the admin pannel.

[[SiNaN]]

Just to note; this is a default feature in 2.2.

[turborz]

sorry Im new here, so the 2.2 has not come out yet is this correct? thanks for the support let me try it out first to see if theres any more problems = )

[Nathaniel]

SimplePortal 2.2 should be out fairly soon.

I am going to mark this topic as solved for now.