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Front page Teasers - ubuntulistener - 2010-04-02
A teaser implementation for the front page?
Front page Teasers - Zegnåt - 2010-04-02
Exactly what do you mean by teaser?
You can already give the front page a completely different design by putting an extra template file in your theme folder and choosing this one for the index. This is how the official GetSimple website offers a different front page too.
Front page Teasers - ubuntulistener - 2010-04-03
Zegnåt Wrote:Exactly what do you mean by teaser?
You can already give the front page a completely different design by putting an extra template file in your theme folder and choosing this one for the index. This is how the official GetSimple website offers a different front page too.
Hiya Zegnat -- teaser are short excerpts of new posts. - Usually the title and the first sentence or paragraph of an article.
You've probably tried Drupal or WordPress or similar CMS, in which, when you create a new page/post, one of the options is to split the body of the article at any given point and post the the title and 'excerpt' on the front page of the installation/site, so that when you create a new page, not only is a new page.xml file created, but the front-page get updated/concatenated to include the excerpt with a link to the full article.
Front page Teasers - Zegnåt - 2010-04-03
Aa, now I get it.
Well, you’ll need to query all pages the way you would build a menu. Instead of just reading the information for a menu you’ll also make your script read the description field in which you have written a teaser. Then output that data in the form of a list.
Though this wouldn’t be so hard, there is no script for it released at the moment (as far as I know).
Front page Teasers - n00dles101 - 2010-04-03
I have one implememted on my site
Http://www.digimute.com
rebuilding my laptop at the mo, will post when i'm doNe
mike
Front page Teasers - n00dles101 - 2010-04-07
yeah forget that, I'm using texTile for editing...
I'm adding a random string to pages that I want to print a teaser for , in my case "[***]"
When printing out the page I see if this string exists, if it does I print everything up to the string followed by a link to the full page. I also have fancy URLs turned off...
Code:
echo stripslashes(substr($page['content'],0,strpos($page['content'],"[***]")));
echo "<a href=\"index.php?type=blog&id=".$page['url']."\">Read More....</a>";When printing the full page I retrieve the full page, and remove the string before echoing.
Code:
if ($_GET['type']=="blog"){
$content= str_replace("[***]","",$content);
echo $content;
}Simple and no changes need to the backend...
Mike,.,,,
Front page Teasers - ccagle8 - 2010-04-18
I just added a new function to GS called get_page_excerpt($length, $html);
$length = the amount of characters you want in your excerpt. Default = 200
$html = should html be shown or stripped out? Default = FALSE (html is stripped)
This will be part of GS 2.02
Front page Teasers - ubuntulistener - 2010-04-21
ccagle8 Wrote:I just added a new function to GS called get_page_excerpt($length, $html);
$length = the amount of characters you want in your excerpt. Default = 200
$html = should html be shown or stripped out? Default = FALSE (html is stripped)
This will be part of GS 2.02
Great!
Front page Teasers - hansvries - 2010-08-15
for those who didn't upgraded to 2.02 i'm using this function in theme_functions.php:
Code:
function get_short_content($page){
$path = "data/pages";
$thisfile = @file_get_contents('data/pages/'.$page.'.xml');
$data = simplexml_load_string($thisfile);
echo '<p>';
echo '<b>';
echo stripslashes(htmlspecialchars_decode($data->title, ENT_QUOTES));
echo '</b></p><p>' ;
echo substr((stripslashes(htmlspecialchars_decode($data->content, ENT_QUOTES))),0,350);;
echo '.............</p><p>' ;
echo '<a href="index.php?id='.$page.'">Read more</a></p>' ;
}and then call in your template or component
Code:
<?php get_short_content('pagetitle');?>Cheers