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Thursday 19 July 2007 8:16:24 pm

Hi Alexander

It seems to have gone a bit quiet up in the northern hemisphere - hopefully this means the Ez crew are having some fun in the sun... But it's the middle of winter down here, so:

The first step would be to override your pagelayout.tpl for your front page. (You can change the node assigned to the frontpage in site.ini (append.php)

[SiteSettings]
IndexPage=/content/view/full/373/
DefaultPage=/content/view/full/373

or whatever node you want...

The override will look something like this:

[frontpagelayout]
Source=pagelayout.tpl
MatchFile=frontpagelayout.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[node]=373

The override will need to be in the overrides/templates directory for your siteaccess. Make a copy of your pagelayout and put it there.

Secondly, write a template to get the articles, take a look at the fetch documentation (reference section of the documentation). You may also need tree if you want to parse subdirectories. For heaps of examples look for the 'list' function http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_9/reference/modules/content/fetch_functions/list

After fetching the articles you'll need to work out what you want to display.

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_9/templates/the_template_language/array_and_object_inspection

and then use a foreach loop to display the items.

I would recommend that you use a template include in your pagelayout (the override pagelayout, that is) to reference the template which does the actual fetch and display.

Paul Bolger

Friday 20 July 2007 6:15:28 am

I fixed the problem, some how.

I have now started to edit the frontpagelayout.tpl file and have added this:
{fetch( 'content', 'list',
hash( 'parent_node_id', 180,
'sort_by', array( 'published', false() ) ) )}

This should show all the child articles of my articles page, but I only get the output "Array".

What can be worng? Is the code trying to get the work items?

Friday 20 July 2007 7:14:56 am

#I have now started to edit the frontpagelayout.tpl file and have added this:
#{fetch( 'content', 'list',
#hash( 'parent_node_id', 180,
'#sort_by', array( 'published', false() ) ) )}

You need to set a variable:

{def $myarticles=fetch( 'content', 'list',
hash( 'parent_node_id', '435',
'sort_by', array( 'priority', true() ),
'limit', '3'
 ))}

- or whatever - the syntax can be a bit tricky (watch out for quote marks and spaces being significant). Probably best to start without the sorting and limiting and put them in when you are sure the fetch is happening.

Then do a foreach loop:

{foreach $myarticles as $article}

and then you can examine the attributes with:

{$article|attribute(show,2)}

and be sure to close the loop...

{/foreach}

You'll see that you can drill down through the objects to extract pretty well anything you need.

Paul Bolger

Saturday 21 July 2007 7:03:05 am

Hi Alexander

For the sorting try

'sort_by', array( 'modified', true() )

Paul Bolger

Sunday 22 July 2007 2:03:01 am

Hi again,

Sorry, should have mention that I'm using ezweb. But I have found a solution on how to add this to the frontpage. This interface has a default set of overrides. So I just had to find the right override for the frontpage, witch was:

extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/override/templates/full/frontpage.tpl

And then I added this code to the template

                        {def $nodes=fetch( 'content', 'list',                                hash( 'parent_node_id', 180, 'sort_by', array( 'modified', false() ),
                                'depth', 1, 'limit', 10 ) )}
                                {foreach $nodes as $node}
                                <a href="{$node.url}"> {$node.name|wash}</a> <br />
                                {/foreach}

I don't know if this is a "dirty hack", but it works great:)