Frontpage -> Showing items grouped by section/category

lazarus_bitmap · 06.04.2004, 22:16

Tried this on the other forum, but thought I might have better luck here since it isn't so busy.

Anyone been able to figure out a way to group home page news/articles by section or category. For example, say I've got Events and News as categories. I'd like the front page to show:

Upcoming Events
Item 1
Item 2

News
Item 1
Item 2

I can probably hack this into the core if I'm forced to, but was curious whetehr anyone had taken it on...

Cheers,

keliix06 · 06.04.2004, 22:30

You would have to do this as a core hack. Your query would look something like:

Code:

SELECT * FROM #__content WHERE catid=ID

Can't tell you if anyone else has something working though.

stingrey · 06.04.2004, 22:44

Yeah a core hack is one way to go about it

However, there is another, that requires no hacking of the core but a module and some work on the database.

You could use my Display New modules

and create multiple copies of them using this database manipulation detailed by Alwarren:
http://forum.mamboserver.com/viewtop...183&highlight=

in the thread, their is a link to antiespecista website, which shows this in action:
http://www.referenciacero.com/index.php

Next question would be how to assign modules to the mainbody
You could either create a typed content page with nothing in the content and assign the modules to that page.
Or you could use the mambot mosphp to include the module position directly into the typed content page (through the editors html mode), then make this the frontpage.

Hope that opens up some possibilities for you.

lazarus_bitmap · 06.04.2004, 23:09

Very interesting idea, stingrey... I'm actually using a multi-template approach where I could just replace the mainbody content call on the home page with a module instead (leaving all sub-pages to use the standard approach). I think that might do exacty what I want without having to mess with core (much preferred, given all the recent security updates).

I'll follow up and let everyone know how it turns out...

stingrey · 07.04.2004, 07:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazarus_bitmap

I'll follow up and let everyone know how it turns out...

Yes please do.

If you get a 'live' implementation going I would love to se how it works out as I need to do the same sort of thing

mambaby · 17.04.2004, 19:59

Has anyone worked this out completely, yet? I'd like to have only one article at the top of the front page, with modules of the various sections with latest entries under the main article. Does that make sense? And I'd like to arrange them so they're maybe three across in a couple of rows. Is there a component that would do that?

lazarus_bitmap · 17.04.2004, 21:27

Stingrey posted an excellent explanation of how to do it here:

http://forum.mamboserver.com/viewtop...381&highlight=

In your situation, you'd probably want to put the complete story inside the introtext area on your first item to make it appear in full, using the standard <?php include ("mainbody.php"); ?>, and only selecting that one item for the home page. Then use modules for the other sections, as in Stingrey's directions.

Cheers,