I was wondering if those in the knows could tell me if this is do-able?

Is it possible for me to create a PHP block to display the full news item of a particular news Topic?

Eg I want to make my front page display the latest news article (latest single article, not all unexpired articles) of a particular news topic.

I know that someone asked for this before (for a NZ school) but he was asking this based on the WF-Section module (not the news module).

I thought maybe the Topics Blocks Module (based on original code by Samuel Wright (http://www.lykoszine.co.uk) and edited for XOOPS 2.0.5 by Adam Hennessyhttp://www.dragster.com.au) could be hacked for that. It currently display the lastest <n> of news article headlines under a particular news topic. I'm sure it is just as easy to modify that to display the full news article instead of just the headlines.

I'm not much of a programmer. If you think this is do-able would you like to help me with this and release it back to the XOOPS community as another module?

Chainsaw,

There is already a module that wil do this for you. Checkout the Spotlight module.