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evylrat
Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/18 22:03

  • evylrat

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 164

  • Since: 2004/2/25


Tinkering with both Lykos Blocks and Spotlight 2.1 (2.2 doesn't seem available anywhere for download).

The Test Site

What I'm trying to do, is show 5 recent news articles, or wf-sections articles, together, in the same block, in date order.

Okay, lets just ignore wf-sections for now.

I want something similar to the News module, but in a block showing the 5 most recent artices.

News Title (DD/MM/YYYY) format)
This is where the text of the new acticle goes. It'd perhaps contain a specific number of letters before tailing off...
Read More | 1 comments | write comment

Both the title of the news and the Read More would take you there, as would the comments. Write comment only available to registered users, maybe.

This would be for ALL topics, together.

I can't get Lykos Blocks to show all topics, just the one.
I can't get Spotlight to show all the info I want. I just can't quite work it out.

I've stripped off the Spotlight Image, see My Live Website for that.

Please help!
Thanks!

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LazyBadger
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?

Both ypour sites unaccessible (for me), so...
I have to ask:
- do you want to get SuperSpotlight 2.2? I have it and can upload for everybody's download needs
- I think, SuperSpotlight 2.2 is that you want... See at it's News block in action at http://mta.e-city.net.ru or http://modules.xoops2.ru

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evylrat
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/18 22:28

  • evylrat

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 164

  • Since: 2004/2/25


Unavailable, yup, you would have to try and access whilst I rebooted
I've found one Superspotlight... not what I wanted. BUT I'm going to download the official 2.2. I think I found a beta...

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evylrat
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/18 22:32

  • evylrat

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 164

  • Since: 2004/2/25


SuperSpotlight 2.2 just gives a dead link. The latest version running on your sites could do the trick.

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evylrat
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/19 13:12

  • evylrat

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 164

  • Since: 2004/2/25


Cheers LazyBadger, got the file.

Installed it... looks awful though.
http://dev.cheshair.homedns.org/

I'll have to mess with the template.

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LazyBadger
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?

Quote:

Installed it... looks awful though.

As vinit said - "don't use two-column design". Do you want to see settings of my Spotlight at http://modules.xoops2.ru?

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GSake
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/19 14:23

  • GSake

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 51

  • Since: 2004/5/30


the bad thing in spotlight are the tables

the image is not wrapped in the text and it creates an awfull white cell as long as the text is long enough

so get rid of the tables!

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evylrat
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/19 15:53

  • evylrat

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 164

  • Since: 2004/2/25


Quote:

LazyBadger wrote:
Quote:

Installed it... looks awful though.

As vinit said - "don't use two-column design". Do you want to see settings of my Spotlight at http://modules.xoops2.ru?


Yes please, I'm sure others would find that useful.

The tables, yuk, I'd strip them out. Will have a look at LazyBadger's template and see if I cam really strip it right down. I'm going to take the java applet out too, as it's a bit fooked.

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LazyBadger
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?

I changed nothing in templates - it's default template "from a box"

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evylrat
Re: Recent News and News Text... spotlight?
  • 2005/1/20 23:44

  • evylrat

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 164

  • Since: 2004/2/25


I'll try again. Thanks

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