Topic: Calling specific category with articles

[Mick.]

Hey yall

You know the front page serves all articles from several categories when a post is added to articles.

Well, what im trying to do is, call the articles from a specific category to use in a custom php page.

My problem is i dont know how to call the category to display these articles.

I have this so far which im assuming im missing the 'call' component.

Code: [Select]

function template_articles()
{
global $context;

if ($context['SPortal']['core_compat'])
template_articles_curve();
}

function template_articles_curve()
{
global $context, $txt, $modSettings;

if (empty($modSettings['articleactive']))
return;

while ($article = $context['get_articles']())
{
echo '

<div class="windowbg">
<span class="topslice"><span></span></span>
<div class="sp_content_padding">';

if (!empty($modSettings['articleavatar']) && $article['poster']['avatar']['name'] !== null && !empty($article['poster']['avatar']['href']))
echo '
<img src="', $article['poster']['avatar']['href'], '" alt="', $article['poster']['name'], '" width="30" class="sp_float_right" />
<div class="middletext">', $article['message']['time'], ' ', $txt['by'], ' ', $article['poster']['link'], '<br />', $txt['sp-articlesViews'], ': ', $article['topic']['views'], ' | ', $txt['sp-articlesComments'], ': ', $article['topic']['replies'], '</div>';
else
echo '
<div class="middletext">', $article['message']['time'], ' ', 'Written by', ' ', $article['poster']['link'], ' | ', $txt['sp-articlesViews'], ': ', $article['topic']['views'], ' | ', $txt['sp-articlesComments'], ': ', $article['topic']['replies'], '</div>';

echo '
<div class="post"><hr />', !empty($article['category']['picture']['href']) ? '<div><img src="' . $article['category']['picture']['href'] . '" alt="' . $article['category']['name'] . '" class="sp_article_image sp_float_right" /></div>' : '', $article['message']['body'], '</div>
<div class="sp_right">', $article['article']['link'], ' ',  $article['article']['new_comment'], '</div>
</div>
<span class="botslice"><span></span></span>
</div>
<br />';
}

if (!empty($modSettings['articleperpage']) && !empty($context['page_index']))
echo '
<div class="sp_page_index">', $txt['sp-articlesPages'], ': ', $context['page_index'], '</div>';
}



Thanx for reading, Mick.

[Mick.]

Would be cool if anyone can figure this one out 

[[SiNaN]]

Have you tried the Board News block? You should be able to choose multiple boards to display topics from. I can help you embedding such a block in a page.

[Mick.]

OMG yes! Exactly, but,..... i'd like to use the actual code as is not showing it in admin.

[Mick.]

You know what? I figured out.  I created a page, then used the board news in those pages. Excellent.

Thanx brother.

[[SiNaN]]

As a note, you can use the SP blocks in a PHP page too. See this topic and post:

http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=5332.0
http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=5332.msg37841#msg37841

[Mick.]

This is great Sinan.

I didnt know all this was possible.  Check out my menu in my website. Now my SMF has a blog feel. I removed linktrees, jump to's, etc.

http://www.bluedevilcustoms.com/community/index.php

[AngelinaBelle]

You are using SimplePortal there? the copyright notice "fell off". That should be fixed in the next version of SimplePortal. That looks good. The youtube doesn't work for me, though.

For a more complicated solution, you can try a custom articles block: http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=4734.msg28884#msg28884 (in SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2 flavors, limited to 1 article category at a time, but still useful on sites with multiple "sub-portals" and one main portal that can select articles from all the different boards.

So -- does that mean the Chevy Avalanche site is looking at another move back to SimplePortal, too?
You must be awfully good at exporting and importing your custom php blocks code by now!

[Mick.]

You are using SimplePortal there? the copyright notice "fell off". That should be fixed in the next version of SimplePortal. That looks good. The youtube doesn't work for me, though.

For a more complicated solution, you can try a custom articles block: http://simpleportal.net/index.php?topic=4734.msg28884#msg28884 (in SMF 1.1.x and SMF 2 flavors, limited to 1 article category at a time, but still useful on sites with multiple "sub-portals" and one main portal that can select articles from all the different boards.

So -- does that mean the Chevy Avalanche site is looking at another move back to SimplePortal, too?
You must be awfully good at exporting and importing your custom php blocks code by now!

I found the solution not knowing how kickass SP works. 

Yeah the copyright did 'fell off' and i tried to fix it in subs with no luck. Oh well, i can wait.

Oh my chevy site will stay using TP. But yeah, im good at exporting blocks lol. Copy and paste and save the codes on notepad. lol

Reason it stays with TP is, TP has the 'upper' and 'lower' blocks across the site that SP does not have. In fact i have studied SP structure that im thinking on making and 'add-on' for SP so it has these 2 blocks.

[[SiNaN]]

Those sides are already added to SP with 2.3.4 version of which we are at the alpha testing stage now.

[Mick.]

Awesome. I always thought SP needed them.