News Manager (updated)

[TeeJay]

Changes since beta 11:
- New options in backend settings for images, readmore, title links, etc. (@TeeJay, @Oleg06, ...)
- Removed support for gsconfig variable $NMARCHIVESBY (it's now in settings)
- Post images disabled by default (though you can enable them in settings)
- $NMIMAGEINPUT in gsconfig only needed if you want to change the default input position
- New gsconfig setting to force converting tags to lowercase (@Connie)

Code:

$NMLOWERCASETAGS = true;

(temporary - I may change it to define instead of global var)

I'll try to prepare some decent docs... in the meantime, ask anything you need to know.

This is great I could totally leave out all the gsconfig.php and components setting, I set everything in the NM settings and it works great as desired.

Before I ask for language translations, please tell me if you think that the English captions I've added to the settings are adequate, what you would change... My English isn't as good as I'd like.

Remember it's a beta. Please report any bugs you find. Feedback much appreciated.

I forgot... these are the new strings: ...

I had little troubles comprehending all the settings at the first look and I think that if I haven't worked with NM before, I would have much more troubles. Furthermore, there are no articles used. I'm also not a native English speaker, but I think I can contribute a little.

So this is my suggestion:

Code:

"ARCHIVES_BY"         =>  "Archives by",
"MONTH"               =>  "Month",
"YEAR"                =>  "Year",
"READ_MORE_LINK"      =>  "Show \"Read more\" link below posts' excerpts",
"ALWAYS"              =>  "Always",
"NOT_SINGLE"          =>  "Except for a single post view",
"GO_BACK_LINK"        =>  "\"Go back\" link in a single post view",
"TITLE_LINK"          =>  "Links to posts in their titles",
"BROWSER_BACK"        =>  "Previously visited page",
"MAIN_NEWS_PAGE"      =>  "Main News Page",
"POST_IMAGES"         =>  "Allow posts' images",
"IMAGE_LINKS"         =>  "Links to posts in the posts' images",
"IMAGE_WIDTH"         =>  "Post images' width (pixels)",
"IMAGE_HEIGHT"        =>  "Post images' height (pixels)",
"IMAGE_CROP"          =>  "Crop post images to fit the dimensions above",
"IMAGE_ALT"           =>  "Insert a post's title into the post's image <em>alt</em> attribute",

I think this is better and more correct, but use what you and others want to. I'm just trying to be clearer and to be grammatically correct (though it still may not be without any mistakes).

I also want to ask you if you could include the dimensions filled in in the back-end to the "width" and "height" attributes of posts' images- it would be perfect.

@TeeJay

To list all your NM posts somewhere in your template you could do like this:

PHP Code:

<?php
global $NMRECENTPOSTS;
$tmprecent = $NMRECENTPOSTS;
$NMRECENTPOSTS = 99999;
nm_list_recent();
$NMRECENTPOSTS = $tmprecent;
?>

that is, if you want to include this in a site map, not in the Sitemap (sitemap.xml)...

Thanks for this. However, I would need to insert this into the middle of the sitemap unordered list which wouldn't be easy at all. I use I18N's sitemap and I don't understand how is it generated, so I won't do anything about it so far. But still, it's great to know this. I might send this piece of code to Mvlcek for the sitemap...