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multiple categories on front page

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Tim Brown

Sunday 09 January 2005 7:50:17 pm

I am trying to configure my site so that News can be the front page info.

However I want to have several sub categories of my news, and as each categorized news item goes up I would like it to feature on the front page.

Any tips on how to do this?

kevin wei

Sunday 09 January 2005 9:14:56 pm

i always use these code from folder.tpl

{section show=is_unset( $versionview_mode )}
              {section show=$node.object.data_map.show_children.content}
              {let page_limit=10
                 list_items=array()
                 list_count=0}

              {section show=or( $view_parameters.day, $view_parameters.month, $view_parameters.year )}
                {let time_filter=array( and,
                                        array( 'published', '>=',
                                               maketime( 0, 0, 0,
                                                         $view_parameters.month, cond( $view_parameters.day, $view_parameters.day, 1 ), $view_parameters.year ) ),
                                        array( 'published', '<=', maketime( 23, 59, 59,
                                                         cond( $view_parameters.day, $view_parameters.month, $view_parameters.month|inc ), cond( $view_parameters.day, $view_parameters.day, 0 ), $view_parameters.year ) ) )}
                {set list_items=fetch_alias( children, hash( parent_node_id, 63,
                                                             offset, $view_parameters.offset,class_filter_type, include, class_filter_array, array('folder'), attribute_filter, $time_filter,
                                                             sort_by, $node.sort_array,
                                                             limit, $page_limit ) )
                     list_count=fetch_alias( children_count, hash( parent_node_id, $node.node_id) )}
                {/let}
               {section-else}
                {set list_items=fetch_alias( children, hash( parent_node_id, 63,
                                                             offset, $view_parameters.offset,class_filter_type, include, class_filter_array, array('folder'),

                                                             sort_by, $node.sort_array,
                                                             limit, $page_limit ) )}
                {set list_count=fetch_alias( children_count, hash( parent_node_id,$node.node_id ) )}
                {/section}
 <div>
				{section var=child loop=$list_items }
  
                 <a href={concat('content/view/full/',$child.node_id)|ezurl}>{$child.name|wash()}</a>
                 {/section}
                 
</div>                 {/section}
                 {/section}
                    

maybe can help u!

Tim Brown

Monday 10 January 2005 5:39:25 pm

thanks, I've only been playing around with EZ in offline mode, so I'll give that a shot when I actually get it loaded on my site.