News Manager

[bencharp]

Hi Ian,

The functions of which I speak is from the file inc/site.php and inc/functions.php of News Manager Plugin.

To not change the plugin directly, I chose the option to duplicate in my theme functions.php, all the functions I needed to customize.

In my case, I wanted to display in a sidebar on my homepage a sample of the latest news with a picture.

I've used nm_show_page, nm_show_post (from inc/site.php) and nm_create_excerpt (from inc/functions.php)
I've copied and renamed its in nm_show_sidepage, nm_show_sidepost and nm_create_sideexcerpt in the functions.php of my theme.

You can take a look of my finally code (i've made some just little modification.)

Code:

/*******************************************************
*@function for show news on home side bar
*/

/*******************************************************
* @function nm_show_sidepage
* param $index - page index (pagination)
* @action show posts on news sidepage
*/
function nm_show_sidepage($index=0) {
  global $NMPOSTSPERPAGE, $NMSHOWEXCERPT;
  $posts = nm_get_posts();
  $pages = array_chunk($posts, intval($NMPOSTSPERPAGE), true);
  if (is_numeric($index) && $index >= 0 && $index < sizeof($pages))
    $posts = $pages[$index];
  else
    $posts = array();
  if (!empty($posts)) {
    foreach ($posts as $post)
      nm_show_sidepost($post->slug, $NMSHOWEXCERPT == 'Y');
    if (sizeof($pages) > 1)
      nm_show_navigation($index, sizeof($pages));
  } else {
    echo '<p>' . i18n_r('news_manager/NO_POSTS') . '</p>';
  }
}


/*******************************************************
* @function nm_show_sidepost
* param $slug post slug
* param $excerpt - if TRUE, print only a short summary
* @action show the requested post on front-end news sidepage
*/
function nm_show_sidepost($slug, $excerpt=false) {
  $excerpt = true;
  $file = NMPOSTPATH . "$slug.xml";
  $post = @getXML($file);
  if (!empty($post) && $post->private != 'Y') {
    $url     = nm_get_url('post') . $slug;
    $title   = strip_tags(strip_decode($post->title));
    $date    = nm_get_sidedate(i18n_r('news_manager/DATE_FORMAT'), strtotime($post->date));
    $content = strip_decode($post->content);
    if ($excerpt) $content = nm_create_sideexcerpt($content);
    # print post data ?>
    <section class="nm_post">
      <h3 class="nm_post_title">
        <a href="<?php echo $url; ?>"><?php echo $title; ?></a>
      </h3>
      <p class="nm_post_date"><?php echo i18n_r('news_manager/PUBLISHED') . " $date"; ?></p>
      <div class="nm_post_content">
          <?php echo $content; ?>
          <a href="<?php echo $url; ?>">[...]</a>
      </div>
      <?php
      # print tags, if any
      if (!empty($post->tags)) {
        echo '<p class="nm_post_meta"><b>' . i18n_r('news_manager/TAGS') . ':</b>';
        $tags = explode(',', $post->tags);
        foreach ($tags as $tag) {
          $url = nm_get_url('tag') . $tag;
          echo " <a href=\"$url\">$tag</a>";
        }
        echo '</p>';
      }
      # show "go back" link, if required
      if (strstr($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], "post=$slug")) {
        echo '<p class="nm_post_back"><a href="javascript:history.back()">&lt;&lt; ';
        i18n('news_manager/GO_BACK');
        echo '</a></p>';
      }
      ?>
    </section>
    <?php
  } else {
    echo '<p>' . i18n_r('news_manager/NOT_EXIST') . '</p>';
  }
}



/*******************************************************
* @function nm_create_sideexcerpt
* @param $content the post content
* @return a truncated version of the post content
*/
function nm_create_sideexcerpt($content) {
  global $NMEXCERPTLENGTH;
  $len = intval($NMEXCERPTLENGTH);
  $content = $content;
  if (strlen($content) > $len) {
    if (function_exists('mb_substr'))
      $content = mb_substr($content, 0, $len);
    else
      $content = substr($content, 0, $len);
  }
  return "<p>$content</p>";
}

In my homepage.php I've add this :

Code:

<aside id="sidebar">
    <article id="news">
        <h1>En ce moment…</h1>

        <?php nm_show_sidepage(); ?>

    </article>
</aside>

And that's all

I'm not a programmer to…
and my english is not my cup of tea ;-)

Hoping to have helped


benoît