Re: How Do I Display The Latest News...

"Diamonddogs" <webmaster-HoJ0R/[email protected]> Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:44:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.xaraya.knowledge-base
Organization Xaraya News Server
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"Jonn Beames" <jbeames-tp0iMJ/[email protected]> a écrit dans le message news:
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> J. Cox wrote:
>
> > However, I see that I am just going to have to break down and write a
> > block;)  Is it that we want to pull from any pub type, by category, or
is
> > there something I am missing?
>
> If it is that we want to display the top (by date, rating, or hitcount)
> items in a category of a particular pub type or the default pub type or
> the current pub type, then we don't need a whole new block.  We just need
> to add a few lines of code to the topitems block so that the site admin
> can select the category.  Then we pass the cid along in the articles
> userapi getall when we retrieve the items to be displayed in the block.
>
> However, if what we is to display the top items of a category and we want
> it to pull items from all pub types, then it gets a little more
> complicated.  the topitems block is currently set up to pay attention to
> the current pubtype and change the content of the block accordingly if
> there is no pub type value set.  This is a pretty nice feature I wouldn't
> want to upset, so an override flag might be necessary to tell it not to
> pass any pubtype in the articles userapi getall.
>
> Just thoughts... hope it's not more noise,
> Jonn
>
>

Yes it would be nice.
If you don't select category, the block will select top from all cat.
For my part i need to display only the 3-4 last news from a specific
category...
Thanx
Chris