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Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

  • 2005/6/16 11:49

  • Shine

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I am trying to redesign the template of the news archive.
At the moment its lay-out a long list of months with news appear below eachother. A lot of spare 'space' isn't used. If you have a lot of years & months, the list is getting very long. If people click a month they don't realise the result appears below.
Being short: its momentary lay-out isn't very handy and overviewing.

Now what I'd prefer is:

Year (2004)
month, month, month,......
Year (2005)
month, month, month, .........
Year (2006)
month, month, month, .......

I've tried it with: (news_archive.html)
<table>
  <tr>
    <th><{$lang_newsarchives}></th>
  </tr>

    <tr class="even">
<{foreach item=year from=$years}>
    <td><{$year.number}></td></tr>
    
<{foreach item=month from=$year.months}>
    <tr><td><a href="./archive.php?year=<{$year.number}>&amp;month=<{$month.number}>"><{$month.string}> </a></td>
  </tr>
  <{/foreach}>
 <{/foreach}>
  
      
</table>

<{if $show_articles == true}>

But this doesn't work out. Some code things are still missing.
Who knows what, where and how?

Any help would be appreciated!

Grtz., Shine
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Shine
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

  • 2005/6/17 7:38

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^ Bump ^
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Mithrandir
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

Try something like this:

<table>
  <tr>
    <th><{$lang_newsarchives}></th>
  </tr>

    
<{foreach item=year from=$years}>
    <tr class="even">
    <td><{$year.number}></td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="odd">
    <td>
<{foreach item=month from=$year.months}>
    <a href="./archive.php?year=<{$year.number}>&month=<{$month.number}>"><{$month.string}> </a>&nbsp;
  <{/foreach}>
    </td>
  </tr>
 <{/foreach}>
  
      
</table>

<{if $show_articles == true}>
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Shine
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

  • 2005/6/17 7:59

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Thanks Mith,...Yes, one step further.
But as you can see the years and months are repeating. Which code needs to be added to solve that part?
Resized Image

Grtz., Shine
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Mithrandir
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

And there should only be 2004 and 2005?

Try enabling Smarty debug and see how the $year variable is populated
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Shine
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

  • 2005/6/17 8:24

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Quote:
And there should only be 2004 and 2005?

Jep
As soon there is gonna be a new year it ads itself to the list. At the moment there are only the months 2004&2005.

Quote:
Try enabling Smarty debug and see how the $year variable is populated

Active, but to be honest........I don't really understand these messages let alone how to read it and solve the matter.
copying msg:
{$year} Array (2)
number => 2004
months => Array (2)
  6 => Array (2)
    string => Juni
    number => 6
  5 => Array (2)
    string => Mei
    number => 5 

{$years} Array (2)
0 => Array (2)
  number => 2005
  months => Array (1)
    6 => Array (2)
      string => Juni
      number => 6
1 => Array (2)
  number => 2004
  months => Array (2)
    6 => Array (2)
      string => Juni
      number => 6
    5 => Array (2)
      string => Mei
      number => 5


Grtz., Shine
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Mithrandir
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

I can't see why the years are copying themselves unless you have it inside another foreach that is not in my code suggestion.
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Shine
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

  • 2005/6/17 9:30

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Shame on me...........it was indeed my mistake. Although I'd commented out some original foreach lines, looks like he did read those lines still out. (hmz, strange..)

Yes,........it works like a charm. BIG Thanks

Grtz., Shine
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JamesSAEP
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

  • 2005/8/8 17:55

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This works great!

See it HERE
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LazyBadger
Re: Template: How to adjust news_archive.html? Using its spare space better!

Maybe months from Jan to Dec will be better, than reverse order?
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