Kahumbu....

I got tired of waiting around for approval that will likely not come at all, and decided to start work on my own news site athttp://nationalnewsregister.com

I don't have any content yet, except some that I snagged for testing purposes.

Anyway, I started to modify the Topics Block, but I haven't really gotten anywhere with it. Here is the code I have for the block so far....

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<div align="center"><h4>World Events</h4></div>
<ul>
<{foreach item=news from=$block.stories}>
<li><a href="http://<{$xoops_url}>/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=2&storyid=<{$news.id}>"><{$news.title}></a> (<{$news.date}>)</li>
<li><a href="http://<{$xoops_url}>/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=2&storyid=<{$news.id}>"><{$news.title}></a> (<{$news.date}>)</li>
<li><a href="http://<{$xoops_url}>/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=2&storyid=<{$news.id}>"><{$news.title}></a> (<{$news.date}>)</li>
<li><a href="http://<{$xoops_url}>/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=2&storyid=<{$news.id}>"><{$news.title}></a> (<{$news.date}>)</li>
<li><a href="http://<{$xoops_url}>/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=2&storyid=<{$news.id}>"><{$news.title}></a> (<{$news.date}>)</li>
<{/foreach}>
</ul>

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I'm only working with one category right now till I get it figured out. But the stories don't actually display. (I don't think I'm there yet on the code.) Any suggestions you could give me?

Hi bbgds,

Got your email. Here is the code in one of the blocks in my Topics Block module:



Basically, I hard-coded the name of Category into each block I am using. But you need to let the <{foreach}> do its own looping to get the news items displayed. I am not sure if the foreach you used and the Smarty tags in there are from the Topics Block module.

Here is a screenshot of my Block Settings:


Hope this helps.

Okay, some wierdness now. I modified the topics block template, and entered a couple of test articles. But what it seems to have done is transfered the preview block from the topic page to the Front Page.

You can see it athttp://nationalnewsregister.com

Also, how did you get the admin block options? Was that another script you wrote?

Kahumbu...

Okay, fixed the problem with the preview blocks (my fault, I had a link in imenu configured wrong.)

But the block doesn't show the links to the individual articles. What else do I need to do here?