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chefry
Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/2/6 13:30

  • chefry

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The publisher random item block shows the contents of the block summary, if there is one, and the body text.

Can someone tell me how I can also get the Title to appear in the block?

TIA!!!
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irmtfan
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/2/6 14:30

  • irmtfan

  • Module Developer

  • Posts: 3419

  • Since: 2003/12/7


Quote:

Mamba wrote:
Chefry, try to experiment a little, so you can learn something from it

very true!

just 2 seconds.
open items_random_item.php and add a function
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 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 */

/**
 * @copyright       The XUUPS Project http://sourceforge.net/projects/xuups/
 * @license         http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU public license
 * @package         Publisher
 * @subpackage      Blocks
 * @since           1.0
 * @author          trabis 
 * @author          The SmartFactory 
 * @version         $Id: items_random_item.php 10374 2012-12-12 23:39:48Z trabis $
 */

defined("XOOPS_ROOT_PATH") or die("XOOPS root path not defined");

include_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/include/common.php';

function publisher_items_random_item_show($options)
{
    $block = array();
    $publisher = PublisherPublisher::getInstance();
    // creating the ITEM object
    $itemsObj = $publisher->getHandler('item')->getRandomItem('', array(_PUBLISHER_STATUS_PUBLISHED));

    if (!is_object($itemsObj)) return $block;

    $block['content'] = $itemsObj->getBlockSummary(300, true); //show complete summary  but truncate to 300 if only body available
    $block['id'] = $itemsObj->itemid();
    $block['url'] = $itemsObj->getItemUrl();
    $block['title'] = $itemsObj->title(); // irmtfan
    $block['lang_fullitem'] = _MB_PUBLISHER_FULLITEM;

    return $block;
}


then add to template where you prefer
<{$block.content}><br/><br/>

<div align="right">
    <a href='<{$block.url}>'><{$block.lang_fullitem}>-><{$block.title}>a>
div>


so it is that easy.
It was very easy for you too.

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chefry
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/2/6 14:54

  • chefry

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I'm not a programmer so... no, it's not easy for me

that change put the item name in the "read the complete article" link

I wanted the item name ot appear in the block content
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trabis
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/2/6 21:08

  • trabis

  • Core Developer

  • Posts: 2269

  • Since: 2006/9/1 1


Quote:
chefry wrote: I'm not a programmer so... no, it's not easy for me that change put the item name in the "read the complete article" link I wanted the item name ot appear in the block content
You already have the tag <{$block.content}> irmtfan told you how to create the tag <{$block.title}> You are not a programmer nor a designer, but you should know that <{$block.content}> will display the content and that <{$block.title}> will display the title.
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sabahan
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/3/31 2:44

  • sabahan

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  • Posts: 317

  • Since: 2006/3/4 5


Hi ,

1. how do i publish the image of the random article
2. currently it display 1 random item how do i display 4
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chefry
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/3/31 3:36

  • chefry

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  • Since: 2006/10/14


You can't publish an image. It's just a simple block. It won't even use any html or bbcodes you have in your article

why would you want to show 4 random articles?

The only thing I can think of is to copy the random article block code and use it to create 3 custom blocks as your random items
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sabahan
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/3/31 4:57

  • sabahan

  • Quite a regular

  • Posts: 317

  • Since: 2006/3/4 5


not the image inside of the article but Article featured image that we can upload for every publisher article...


i did this before in my publisher clone module but for Other articles
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=352477

will try if i can do this for random item



i want to show the 4 random article below article item of each item like blog style
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sabahan
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/3/31 5:17

  • sabahan

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  • Posts: 317

  • Since: 2006/3/4 5


ok i think got it..add featured image for random article

in items_random_item.php

$mainImage = $itemsObj->getMainImage();
        // check to see if GD function exist
        if (!function_exists('imagecreatetruecolor')) {
            $block['item_image'] = $mainImage['image_path'];
        } else {
            $block['item_image'] = PUBLISHER_URL . '/thumb.php?src=' . $mainImage['image_path'] . '&w=' . $imgwidth; // No $imgheight for autoheight option
        }


template publisher_items_random_item.html



<img src="<{$block.item_image}>" alt="" width="100" height="100" align="left" style="padding:5px;"/>


at first i got blank page because of this warning
//CAREFUL!! with many items this will exhaust memory
remove $block['lang_fullitem'] = _MB_PUBLISHER_FULLITEM;
notw its ok


now still finding how to show 4 random instead of 1

Quote:

The only thing I can think of is to copy the random article block code and use it to create 3 custom blocks as your random items

another better way ?
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bjuti
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/3/31 16:12

  • bjuti

  • Just can't stay away

  • Posts: 871

  • Since: 2009/1/7 2


Nice.. this should be in original version.

Also, it would be nice that every template have title tag in links. It's good for seo.
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FreddyH
Re: Publisher Random Item

  • 2013/7/16 18:16

  • FreddyH

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 18

  • Since: 2013/7/1 1


Hmm, I can't get the image to show... where is thumb.php ?
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