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I was also looking for solution for my website's(
Toronto Chinese Yellow Pages) headline session. I have 3 columns. After a while, i decided to dig into the code myself.
I found it it is easier to use the "headline_weight" for the logic. Here is what I have done.
1. Weight your RSS list(Sorting sequence) throught the headline administration
2. Assign the 'weight' variable in .../xoopsheadline/index.php
$xoopsTpl->append('feed_sites', array('id' => $headlines[$i]->getVar('headline_id'), 'weight' => $headlines[$i]->getVar('headline_weight'), 'name' => $headlines[$i]->getVar('headline_name')));
3. Change the custome template to have the logic, which in my case I have 3 columns.
<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<!-- start site loop -->
<{foreach item=site from=$feed_sites}>
<td valign="top" width=33%"><img src="images/news.gif"><a href="<{$xoops_url}>/modules/xoopsheadline/index.php?id=<{$site.id}>"><font color="#0000EE"><{$site.name}></font></a></td>
<{if $site.weight is div by 3}>
</tr><tr>
<{/if}>
<{/foreach}>
<!-- end site loop -->
</tr>
</table>
4. Here is the layout from my website.
RSS News Feed------------------------------
xiao.ca
Toronto Chinese Business Directory
