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[justforthesake]

heyah
so no one actually replied to my previous feature request, but I still appreciate your heavy work guys! and want to add more stuff

most sites which display news on one page, even if the articles are fully displayed, will allow the title of the article to be clicked and linked to a separate page with the same article - just because not everyone knows that if they click 'view comments' they will get the same result...

next point, there could be an option for customizing the
"Posted By: cricket @ 24 December 2008 - 02:57 AM"
and
"Comments: 0 :: View Comments"
area as some people may want the details to be displayed in a different order or some of the details not to be displayed (or even more details to be displayed)

that reminds me also something like a 'read more' button and bbcode could be useful - so that the full article didn't have to be displayed on the front page because some of it would be hidden by the code and either only displayed if someone wanted to see it (like an ajax thing that would slide down) or would open the forum topic where the whole article would display (not just the limited front page part)

that reminds me, this site (http://freeza.nl/) has a nice thing that when you press 'show/write comments (16)' it will just show them beneath the article...

so those are just a few suggestions from me, thanks for listening!
t

[justforthesake]

ok, got bored of waiting, would have even been nice if someone replied 'i'm busy, will reply next month' or 'can't do'
so i decided to have a look into the uportal code (for the previous version)
after going through all the separate files i figured out that customizing the posted by/comments part can be done in the 'news_block' file

but the part about changing the title into a link, i really don't have a clue where to find the code, i thought it might be the td_row/th_row but it's not that, and as I'm a complete noob with php that doesn't make life any easier..

i only know that once i find the piece of code that directs me to the title of the news topic, i'll change it to this:

<a href='{$this->ipsclass->base_url}showtopic={$fetch['tid']}' title="{$this->ipsclass->lang['topic_started']}{$fetch['start_date']}">{$fetch['title']}</a>

any directions please?


oh, and i'm still very interested in this, but it's beyond me...


thanks

[Paul]

justforthesake, on 01 September 2009 - 05:32 AM, said:

ok, got bored of waiting, would have even been nice if someone replied 'i'm busy, will reply next month' or 'can't do'
so i decided to have a look into the uportal code (for the previous version)
after going through all the separate files i figured out that customizing the posted by/comments part can be done in the 'news_block' file

but the part about changing the title into a link, i really don't have a clue where to find the code, i thought it might be the td_row/th_row but it's not that, and as I'm a complete noob with php that doesn't make life any easier..

i only know that once i find the piece of code that directs me to the title of the news topic, i'll change it to this:

<a href='{$this->ipsclass->base_url}showtopic={$fetch['tid']}' title="{$this->ipsclass->lang['topic_started']}{$fetch['start_date']}">{$fetch['title']}</a>

any directions please?


oh, and i'm still very interested in this, but it's beyond me...


thanks

Wish i could help mate, but i know what you mean on this site, i guess they are v busy..

Paul

[jimbo]

For clickable news block titles see..

http://www.unreal-so...findpost&p=3521

[justforthesake]

great!
now just multiple news pages and i'll be in heaven!

[jimbo]

justforthesake, on 03 September 2009 - 04:12 PM, said:

great!
now just multiple news pages and i'll be in heaven!

I looked into this but I don't believe there's any simple way to alter uPortal to achieve what you want... what would be possible is to design a skin that displays the news in a blog style... then assign that template to the news forum only...

[justforthesake]

I hadn't thought about that, I didn't know that was possible..
lol
Thanks
Can you recommend any site that would have a good tutorial in skinning? As I'm not exactly certain how I'd go about this (I never came across a skin that displayed a forum in blog style..)


And then another question, would anyone know how I'd go about creating a block that would display topic titles (<that was the easy part) but from lets say 15-30 (last topic titles from a specific forum), as then I could create a front page with the last 14 topics displayed fully, and then below that a block with links to older topics.

Cheers!