Add a news block : how to ?

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aiphess Reply #1, 15 years ago

hi

i want to add to my template a news block...but it’s not for a blog just for a classic website...so i dont understand how it works whith ditto because i havent any articles,only contet pages and news separately of content...in a page "news" for example...

i think many of yours have done this in past ...so i’ll very glad to receive yous tips

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aiphess Reply #2, 15 years ago

i’ve found one solution : http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=34441.0
is there anymore ?

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aiphess Reply #3, 15 years ago

questions after applying what is explained below :
- how to parameter the number of lines of the news display in the ditto list ?
- how to hide the autor or the date in the ditto list ?

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dev_cw Reply #4, 15 years ago

- how to parameter the number of lines of the news display in the ditto list ?
The number of returned items &display=`10` change 10 to the number of news items you want o display

- how to hide the autor or the date in the ditto list ?
You should build a custom TPL to format the output the way you want.

Displaying news, articles or any other data in Ditto is the same process if it is a blog or not.
Create a chunk as the tpl, for example:

<div class="news">
<h3>[+longtitle+]</h3>
<p>[+introtext+]</p>
<p class="read-more"><a href="[~[+id+]~]">Read Full Story</a></p>
</div>

You can also use the summary extender to be able to truncate the content filed.
Here is the Ditto support site with a list of all the available parameters:
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html

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aiphess Reply #5, 15 years ago

- how to parameter the number of lines of the news display in the ditto list ?
The number of returned items &display=`10` change 10 to the number of news items you want o display

we dont understand each other...i want to know how to display an extract of each news to give an overview to the customer...like

Title of the news - date
Extract
Link

i go to do what you tell for the other part of my questions... wink

just a problem; i had put a block in my right sidebar but it display news only when i’m on the news’page...not whan i’m on another...

code like :

 <div id="actus">
            [[Ditto?depth=`1` &display=`3` &sortBy=`editedon`&depth=`4`&noResults=`Pas d'actualités récentes`]]</div>
		</div>

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dev_cw Reply #6, 15 years ago

just a problem; i had put a block in my right sidebar but it display news only when i’m on the news’page...not whan i’m on another...

Include a &parents=`` parameter to define the parent ID of the news section. So if the news section ID is 13 you would add &parents=`13` to the Ditto call. By default it uses the current document that is loaded.

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aiphess Reply #7, 15 years ago

ok it works great

another problem in this code(in actus page not in sidebar):

[[Ditto?depth=`1` &display=`3` &sortBy=`editedon`&depth=`4`&filter=`author,2`&noResults=`Pas d'actualités récentes`]]

the parameter

&noResults=`Pas d'actualités récentes`

isnt display on globality...the screen show only "Pas d’actua"...whats wrong ?

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dev_cw Reply #8, 15 years ago

isnt display on globality...the screen show only "Pas d’actua"...whats wrong ?

It should work. I wonder if this could be related to the é character. Test this by removing the é from the text and see if it works.

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aiphess Reply #9, 15 years ago

yes an accent problem...strange because in the sidebar it works good and its not html coded... huh

how to resolve this ? can i html code accent in the snippet insertion ?

for my filter problem ,do you think the best way to dont display author is to do a chunk ? like i done for the sidebar ?

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dev_cw Reply #10, 15 years ago

If it work in one place it should work in the other as well. Try re-typing it to make sure that when you paste it no char data gets sent with it.

for my filter problem ,do you think the best way to dont display author is to do a chunk ? like i done for the sidebar ?

Yes. THe author is being displayed as part of Dittos default tpl, the only way to overwrite it is to have your own chunk tpl.

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