NewsListing Formatting

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  lw-d Reply #1, 17 years, 9 months ago

  Hi all,
  
  I am using the NewsListing snippet with the following simple chunk:
  
  <a href="[+id+]">[+longtitle+]</a>
  
  All i need to do now is have the date proceed the news title link in the following format:
  
  31.08.06 (date/month/year)
  
  If possible, I would also like to have the date colour set different to the title, is it a case of adding a span around the date tag?
  
  Appreciate any help.
  
  Thanks
  Lee
  
  http://www.blend.uk.com | Web Design by Blend
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  Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #2, 17 years, 9 months ago

  NewsListing is depreceated in favour of Ditto, grab it and read the appropriate documentation: http://modxcms.com/ditto_documentation.html , in addition, a handy list of Ditto parameters: http://modxcms.com/ditto_parameters.html
  
  Hope you’ll get what you want .
  
  Best regards,
  
  zi
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  lw-d Reply #3, 17 years, 9 months ago

  I actually got it working, I will take a look at ditto now though
  
  Thanks zi,
  
  Lee
  http://www.blend.uk.com | Web Design by Blend
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  Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #4, 17 years, 9 months ago

  Glad to hear!
  
  Would you like to share the solution with us also ? there might be other users who wants to do exactly
  
  @Ditto: It is so much powerfull, faster, optimized than NewsListing and has web2.0 features also (e.g. JSON output, tag support etc.)
  
  Best regards.
  
  zi
  Zaigham R - MODX Professional | Skype | Email | Twitter
  
  Digging the interwebs for #MODX gems and bringing it to you. modx.link
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  lw-d Reply #5, 17 years, 9 months ago

  oooh Ditto sounds good, just finishing off something else on the site, will try ditto when I am done with that. In terms of what I wanted to do, I simply created a chunk with the following code:
  
  <a href="[+id+]"><span>[+date+]</span> // [+longtitle+]</a>
  
  Very simple but it looks and functions exactly how I would want it to. The next is to get it to look the same with Ditto, I would then like to integrate RSS on this page with the news links.
  
  Thanks
  Lee
  http://www.blend.uk.com | Web Design by Blend

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