Howdy all,
I've been playing with my question... how to divide simpleportal articles into two columns after the first article.
I can approximate this idea by using forum news instead of articles... as SiNaN provided in
this post here.
I did this, and it works. But it's not what I need.
The difference between articles and forum news is significant, unfortunately. Clearly even SimplePortal recognizes the difference is significant, or the two entities would not exist as two separate entities.
1. Admin can select what constitutes an article. Forum News merely picks from recent posts.
2. Admin can pick articles from any forum. Forum News must use predefined specific forums.
3. Articles has an infinite number of pages users can use to explore the history of the articles. Forum News is limited to the specified number of posts to show.
I was hoping the PortalArticles.php was similar enough to the PortalBlocks.php so that I could use SiNaN's work on
Forum News block as a template for changes to the Articles script, but alas... they are too different for me to figure this out. For example, there aren't even any echo calls in PortalArticles.php, and the entire modification is based on altering the echo in PortalBlocks.php.
The tweak to make forum news two columns was relatively simple... I am hopeful and optimistic someone is willing to help me get the same result in the Articles script.