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[HOWTO] Display a TV image with each news item

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    StainlessSteelRat Reply #1, 17 years, 9 months ago
    I want to use Ditto on my frontpage to show a list of the most recent news items in the website’s news & events section. Each of these articles will have an image file associated with it... a photo, logo or whatnot. How can I have the Ditto snippet to produce a list of these 3 or 4 most recent news articles with a thumbnail of that article’s associated image? Any help would be great. Thanks!

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      doze Reply #2, 17 years, 9 months ago
      if the images are done with tv’s, then easily..


        "He can have a lollipop any time he wants to. That's what it means to be a programmer."
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        StainlessSteelRat Reply #3, 17 years, 9 months ago
        Umm.... undecided Can you elaborate?

        I have a TV for each article page called [*Image1*] and I’m calling the Ditto snippet from the front page using 
        [!Ditto? &startID=`41` &tpl=`NewsChunk` &summarize=`4` &displayArchive=`0` !]

        to show 4 articles in a folder with ID# 41.

        The chunk that I’m using for a template on the front page is:
        <span class="imgsty2"><img src="[*Image1*]" align="left" height="52"/></span>
<li>
<a href="[+id+].html">[+title+]</a><br />
[+summary+]<br /></li>


        The problem is that whatever values I put in [*Image1*] for each of the news articles don’t follow it to the front page... it populate’s the [*Image1*] instance I call in the chunk with the TV value for the front page.

        -R
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          Zombie Reply #4, 17 years, 9 months ago
          I guess the reason is that Ditto cannot relate to your [*image1*] TV in this way. It does just use, but not evaluate its template.
          Maybe it’s possible to make that TV become a part of the Ditto-[summary] output. Then it should work.
          But these remarks of mine are quite vague, since I’m not an experienced Ditto-user. embarrassed
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            MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #5, 17 years, 9 months ago
            You just need to use [+tvimage1+] as per the Ditto documentation.
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              StainlessSteelRat Reply #6, 17 years, 9 months ago
              That did it! Thanks.