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Hi man,
i'am wondering how did you done "events and announcements" page.
I'am trying to do same thing. I try to change multilevel menu, but i stuck.

i've add

Code:
$pagesArray[$count]['content'] = $data->content;

and

Code:
$xml.="<content><![CDATA[".$page['content']."]]></content>";

note: I'am not good with PHP

I have few problems:
1. I'am not getting data from all pages (i'am getting content and pubDate only from one page and from others only title)
2. How can I get only few first characters from content.

Code:
function page_article($a='') {

        if (!isset($a) || $a == '' || empty($a)) { $a = return_page_slug(); }

        $data = simplexml_load_string(ye_olde_data());

        $menu = $data->xpath('//*[parent="first-article"]');  /* Show only pages with this parent */

        function article_sorting($a, $b) {

            $c1=strcmp($a->menuOrder, $b->menuOrder);

            if ($c1!=0) return $c1;

            $c2=strcmp(strtolower(($a->menu!=""?$a->menu:$a->pubDate)), strtolower(($b->menu!=""?$b->menu:$b->pubDate)));

            if ($c2!=0) return $c2;

            $c3=strcmp($a->slug, $b->slug);

            if ($c3!=0) return $c3;

        }

        usort($menu,"article_sorting");

        if (count($menu) > 0) {

            echo '<ul class="menu">';

            foreach ($menu as $link) {

                $prnt = count($data->xpath('//item[slug="'.$a.'"][parent="'.$link->slug.'"]')); 

                echo '<li'.("$link->slug"==$a?' class="active"':($prnt>0?' class="parent"':'')).'><a href="'.$link->url.'">'.($link->menu!=""?$link->menu:$link->title).'</a>';

                echo '<br />';

                echo ''.($link->menu!=""?$link->menu:$link->pubDate).'';

                echo '<br /> <br />';

                echo ''.($link->menu!=""?$link->menu:$link->content).'';                

                echo '</li>';

                echo '<br /> <br />';

            }

            echo '</ul>';

        }

    }

Could you please help me?

Here is what I used. I found this somewhere in this forum, and modified it to my needs.

First, you need to create a parent page. Mine was the homepage, so I made all the pages I wanted to be "News and Announcements" a child of "index".

Add this to your theme's function.php file:

Code:
/** News List on Home Page **/

function get_news_list($slug) {

  $path="data/pages/";

  $xml_path="$path$slug.xml";        

    $data=''; 

    $parent = '';

    //Parents

    if($da = @fopen($xml_path,"r"))

        {

            $data=getXML($xml_path);

            $parent= $data->parent;

            @fclose($da);

        }

        else

        {

        echo "Error: Cannot find <strong>$xml_path</strong>";

        }

        if ($parent =='')

        {

            $parent=$slug;

        }

    //Children

    $count=0;

  $urlArray = array();

  $morderArray = array();

  if (is_dir($path)) {

    if ($dh = opendir($path)) {

      while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {

           if($file!="." AND $file!=".." AND $file!=".htaccess"){

             $xml_path="$path$file";            

             $da = @fopen($xml_path,"r");

             $data=getXML($xml_path);  

             if ($data->parent != ''){

                        if (strcasecmp($data->parent, $parent) == 0) {

                            $morderArray[$count]['menuorder'] = $data->menuOrder;            

                            $morderArray[$count]['count'] = $count;

                 $urlArray[$count]['url'] = $data->url;

                            $urlArray[$count]['title'] = $data->title;

                            $urlArray[$count]['content'] = $data->content;

                            $count++;

                        }    

                    }

                    @fclose($da);

                }

            }

            closedir($dh);

        }

    }

    //Layout

    $output ='<div>';

    foreach ($morderArray as $key => $val) {

        $n= $morderArray[$key]['count'];

        $output .= '<dl class="news-list">';

        $output .= '<dt><a href="index.php?id='.$urlArray[$n]['url'].'">'.$urlArray[$n]['title'].'</a></dt>';

        $output    .= '<dd>'._substr(htmlspecialchars_decode($urlArray[$n]['content']),75).'</dd>';

        $output .=    '<dd><a class="readmore" href="index.php?id='.$urlArray[$n]['url'].'">read more</a></dd>';

        $output    .= '</dl>';

    }

    $output .= '</div>';

    echo $output;

}

Then create a new template for that page you would like to display the stories on and add this wherever you would like the list to be displayed.

Code:
<?php get_news_list(return_page_slug()); ?>

cameron

zajca

cameron