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Show latest news on homepage

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Juan Camilo

Saturday 22 April 2006 6:18:58 am

Hello everybody

I'm working on a new site with eZ and I need to show a little block on the home page listing the latest published news. By default there's a block with news but it is not appearing in my index, the pagelayout.tpl I'm using is practically the same as the default. Why could be the reason the news are not displayed?

André R.

Saturday 22 April 2006 7:51:08 am

eZ3.6++ sample code for looping thru the 5 last modified articles in a override template.
Search for sort_by in ec.no/doc to see how to get the 5 last Published articles.

<div class="content-view-children">
{def $list_items=fetch( 'content','list', hash( 
	'parent_node_id', 130,
	'offset', 0,
	'class_filter_type', 'include',
	'class_filter_array', array('article'),
        'sort_by', array( 'modified', false()),
        'limit', 5 ) )
	}
<h2>Last news:</h2>
{foreach $list_items as $item}
	<div class="content-view-line">
	<div class="class-article">
	<h3><a href={$item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$item.object.data_map.title.content|wash}</a></h3>
	{section show=$item.object.data_map.intro.content.is_empty|not}
	<div class="attribute-short">
		{attribute_view_gui attribute=$item.object.data_map.intro}
	</div>
	{/section}
	 </div>
	</div>
{/foreach}
{undef $list_items}
</div>

use the 'tree' fetch function to include articles in sub nodes as well.
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_6/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions

to have a list of latest news in the pagelayout, it would probalby be a good idea to remove
attribute-short or having less nr of articles fetched.

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Juan Camilo

Saturday 22 April 2006 8:52:37 am

Ok. Thanks a lot.