News Manager

[mikeh]

I am currently trying to hack the page excerpt function to modify the [...] at the end of excerpts. I'd like the [...] string to be a link pointing to the full post version as the headline already does.

This should be easy to accomplish for someone with more PHP experience. Maybe you guys can give me a hint.

I looked around in other news manager related files and found the code which builds the URL for the headline (/plugins/news_manager/inc/site.php), but I'm unable to recreate the functionality in the excerpt code.

/plugins/news_manager/inc/functions.php, around line 150:

Code:

$content = trim(mb_substr($content, 0, $len, 'UTF-8')) . ' [...]';

I modified it like this so far:

Code:

$content = trim(mb_substr($content, 0, $len, 'UTF-8')) . ' <a href="" title="">[weiterlesen &hellip;]</a>';

I tried inserting <?php echo $url; ?> (from site.php) which gets printed as-is, tried separating it by way of . <?php echo $url; ?> ., to no avail.

Help?

I just tested this out and accomplished it with 2 small edits to "news_manager/inc/functions.php" and "news_manager/inc/site.php". Below are my edits and the edited files are attatched to this post (ver: 2.2.4).

File: news_manager/inc/site.php : Around Line 99
Change

Code:

if ($excerpt) $content = nm_create_excerpt($content);

to

Code:

if ($excerpt) $content = nm_create_excerpt($content, $url);

File: news_manager/inc/functions.php : Around Line 151-153
Change

Code:

$content = trim(mb_substr($content, 0, $len, 'UTF-8')) . ' [...]';
    else
      $content = trim(substr($content, 0, $len)) . ' [...]';

to

Code:

$content = trim(mb_substr($content, 0, $len, 'UTF-8')) . '..&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="'.$url.'">Read More</a>';
    else
      $content = trim(substr($content, 0, $len)) . '..&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="'.$url.'">Read More</a>';