Section -> How do I change the default (10) number of content items displayed

jukemann · 17.04.2004, 04:01

How do I change the number of content items are being displayed? Currently there shows only 10.

Also how do I change the sort order so that the newer content stories are posted at the top rather at the bottom? I understand and see this in the frontpage configuration component.

Thanks

James

tudorbob · 17.04.2004, 09:27

In the frontpage setup in admin click on the tab called Parameters. Here you have a number of options
1. "The Count" this will tell mambo how many news items you want on the front page. eg 10
2. "Intro" this tells mambo how many of the items displayed on the front page will have an introduction visible - so if this is set to 3 only 3 out of the ten items displayed will have an introductory text - the other seven will be a list of simple links at the base of the page. So if you want all ten to have the intro text then you should set this to 10.

The ordering - if you want the newest first you will have to scroll down the drop down menu for Date desc or is it ascending ? one of the two - the default is set to allow the user to specify the order.

Next you must click save at the top of the page.

Hope this is what you where looking for.

Tudor

visualdensity · 17.04.2004, 10:42

What tudorbob suggested is only for the frontpage component.

If you want to have the content categories to display more than 10 items, you can easily hack it by going to /components/com_content/content.php

BACKUP THAT FILE FIRST!

Go to around line 129 and you'll see something like below:

PHP Code:

  function showCategory( $id, $gid, $access, $sectionid  ) {

    global $database, $mainframe, $Itemid, $mosConfig_offset;

 
    $limit = trim( mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'limit', 10 ) );

    $limitstart = trim( mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'limitstart', 0 ) );

 
    $noauth = !$mainframe->getCfg( 'shownoauth' );

You can hack this particular line:

PHP Code:

         $limit = trim( mosGetParam( $_REQUEST, 'limit', 10 ) );

Change the value "10" to the number of items you want to display. I've changed mine to 30. For an example, click go to the following link:

http://www.visualdensity.com/content/category/1/1/35/

I've also got my items to display with the newest at the top. To do this, go to line 170 in the same page (/components/com_content/content.php) and you find the something of the following:

PHP Code:

      . ($noauth ? "\n    AND c.access<='$gid'" : "" )

    . "\nGROUP BY c.id"

    . "\n    HAVING COUNT(b.id) > 0"

    . "\nORDER BY a.ordering ASC" //This is what you change

    );

Change the "a.ordering ASC" to "c.created DESC" and your code will now look something like the following:

PHP Code:

      . ($noauth ? "\n    AND c.access<='$gid'" : "" )

    . "\nGROUP BY c.id"

    . "\n    HAVING COUNT(b.id) > 0"

    . "\nORDER BY c.created DESC" // This is now changed

    );

That will get your content category listed like my site. Do note: changing the codes above will only affect content_category listing type. If you need others, you will have to amend the same changes to all other SQL statements in the file.

HTH.

digidydave1 · 18.04.2004, 00:06

Very handy post. Thanks.

If any 5.0 developers are watching, I wouldn't mind seeing these setting as parameters when creating a content blog category/section page via the menus. Just a thought.

dg

jukemann · 18.04.2004, 04:10

That's what is was lookng for

Thanks!

stingrey · 19.04.2004, 18:35

Actually the easiest way to do this without hacking core files is simply to add this simply command to the end of a url:

&limit=30

This then tells the page to set its page display to 30 items instead of the default 10.

However, I do agree that this should paramter configurable in the admin backend, globally and on a per section/category basis.

eyezberg · 28.04.2004, 12:33

Visual, this is very good,
only the second hack is further down, line 200something !! (in the category items).
Just added that, cool!

jump · 13.05.2004, 16:54

PHP Code:

      . ($noauth ? "\n    AND c.access<='$gid'" : "" )

    . "\nGROUP BY c.id"

    . "\n    HAVING COUNT(b.id) > 0"

    . "\nORDER BY a.ordering ASC" //This is what you change

    );

I do not have this. The closet I have is...

PHP Code:

      . ($noauth ? "\n    AND c.access<='$gid'" : "" )

    . "\nGROUP BY c.id"

    . "\n    HAVING COUNT(b.id) > 0"

    . "\nORDER BY c.ordering"

And also..

PHP Code:

      . ($noauth ? "\n    AND c.access<='$gid'" : "" )

    . "\nGROUP BY c.id"

    . "\n    HAVING COUNT(b.id) > 0"

    . "\nORDER BY c.ordering"

TheGreek · 13.05.2004, 21:43

Okay Hi. I'm looking to do something along these lines too but I want to order my FAQ items by the number of hits.

In a listing like this:

http://www.mambo-hosting.com/content...y/2/8/36/30/0/

and I also want to create related items links and cross referencing of my FAQ's in an automated way.

Is it possable for a glossary of key words be used to create automatic links?

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious but I'm a fairly new boy to Mambo.

jump · 15.05.2004, 10:42

^^ Anyone??