Modify the way content is displayed on front page.

[Cryptor]

#1. I have only been playing with mambo for few days, but I'am really stuck on this and I don;t know much of php.

#2. Here is the page that we are talking about. Right now content on the front page is displayed in the default way.

#3. I have content segregated into 3 categories.

Here are my questions :

#1. How do I ( I can't find the code responsible for displaying it ) change what is being displayed for each news item ? All I want is :
Line1: Date created + title linked to content
Line2: Rating thing+Comment thing.
Everythign else is unwanted.

#2. How can I make it so that news items from each category are displayed separatelly ( ie: last 10 game news items - space - last 10 reptile news items...etc... )

#3. How do I limit the number of characters from the title being displayed for each news title ?


I really hope that someone can point me to the right direction here, I'am really stuck on this one. Sorry about the site not being finished

[divamissx]

In the editor, if you move all of the article content to the second content box, then the user will have to click thru to read the article.

There are several news modules available that list things such as 'last x number' content items or 'most popular', 'highest rated, etc. You can find them in the downloads section at mamboportal.com

I would think if you want limited titles, just make the display title shorter. Maybe I'm misunderstanding that request.

Stacey

[jomaco1]

You can choose which items are displayed with the content by selecting site>global configuration from the admin main menu. Here you can toggle things like "use linked titles" and "hide author names", etc.

Go to components>frontpage>settings>parameters to set the number of items displayed on each page.

[Cryptor]

components>frontpage>settings>parameters --> the setting you can set there are very limited and won;t allowe you to remove most of what I'am trying to get ride of.

But ! I think that getting abot and then modifying it slightly will be much simpler ( i hope - we'll see ).

But if you know what piece of code in what *.php is responsible for this particular task then let me know.

I found that modyfying modules is p[retty straight forward, but this I'am stuck on.

[kergo]

Originally Posted by divamissx

I would think if you want limited titles, just make the display title shorter. Maybe I'm misunderstanding that request.

That ain't work. If the input-bar is smaller than it was before, you can write the same text in it anyway.

I'm sharing two of Cryptor's questions:

#2. How can I make it so that news items from each category are displayed separatelly ( ie: last 10 game news items - space - last 10 reptile news items...etc... )

#3. How do I limit the number of characters from the title being displayed for each news title ?

I'm now describing the frontpage I wanna have: First there's the newest article (doesn't matter of wich category), followed by the latest 2 news of category 1, then the latest 2 of category 2, latest 2 of category 3, ...

Mark that there's a problem with displaying: If the newest article of the site belongs to category #1, it'll be shown twice: At first in the beginning (newest article) and at second under itself ('cause it's the newest item of category #1).

[Cryptor]

O.K., let me re-phrase the question :

What piece of php code of what file is responsible for the way that a single content item is being fomatted ?

Thank you for your help but from looking at it I get the impression that it specifies how the content page is laid out, and what I need is the file that specifies how the news items are laid out. I might be wrong though.

OOops, that was soupossed to go on a different board, oh well, the suggestion was that /com_content/content.html.php was responsible for it.

[Cryptor]

Well this is suprising that nobody seems to be concerned about not being able to customize much in the Home page, after all it's you rmain page that everyone sees first.

[fishboy]

Hey Cryptor did you ever find an answer for this?

#3. How do I limit the number of characters from the title being displayed for each news title ?

I have a simlar question, see here

Basically i would like to limit the number of characters in the intro text on the front page. I guess this would be pretty similar to you needing to limit the title?

If you found out can you share how you did it? or point me in the right direction?

Cheers.