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What is actually wrong with our links like `/zenphoto/news` etc???
Any suggestions on how to go on solving that? Thank you for your answers.
Therefore it is recommended to have them separated. You can disable the news on index to get the normal gallery index page. You can of course still have the CombiNews enabled for the news page.
Sorry you can have only one news and gallery page unless you want to do some more scripting as you will have to work with the object framework then. All internals are setup for the standard news pages.
You can also use the printLatestNews function to print x news exceprts on the index page (It is also capable of showing "combinews"). Maybe that is what you are after and a little easier?
<div id="albums">
<?php while (next_album()): ?>
<div class="album">
<div class="thumb"> " title="<?php echo gettext('View album:'); ?> <?php echo getBareAlbumTitle();?>"><?php printCustomAlbumThumbImage(getBareAlbumTitle(), NULL, 95, 95, 95, 95); ?> </div>
<div class="albumdesc">
<h3>" title="<?php echo gettext('View album:'); ?> <?php echo getBareAlbumTitle();?>"><?php printAlbumTitle(); ?></h3>
<?php printAlbumDate(""); ?>
<p><?php echo truncate_string(getAlbumDesc(), 45); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
What do you mean with not a value? It says "string $option: "none" for only news articles " in the documentation (http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/plugins/zenpage/_plugins---zenpage---zenpage-template-functions.php.html)
2. Sorry, I was mistaken with the parameter, I did not remember correctly (we have the documentation also for ourselves..;-)).
News on index.php
This option allows to turn the theme index.php into the first page of the news section (all further ones will be displayed on news.php). All you have to do to use this is to copy the complete next_news() loop to your index.php.
But I can't get it to work. I've tried to put the code below div id="content" and other places:
`
<?php while (next_news()): ;?>
<?php printNewsTitleLink(); ?><?php echo " <span class='newstype'>[tekster]"; ?>
<?php
if(is_GalleryNewsType()) {
if(!is_NewsType("album")) {
echo gettext("Album:")."<a href='".getNewsAlbumURL()."' title='".getBareNewsAlbumTitle()."'> ".getNewsAlbumTitle()."";
} else {
echo "
";
}
} else {
printNewsCategories(", ",gettext("Categories: "),"newscategories");
}
?>
`
The OP presented their (and my) real problem in their 2nd post: They were not trying to generate more than one gallery.php, news.php, or index.php.
After a discussion and confusion, the basic answer was: it can't be done without hacking the core code.
Restating the problem and my thoughts on it:
I am writing a custom theme. It will have a custom menu and a breadcrumb.
I want my theme home page (index.php) to show a list of links to the latest news articles and latest updated albums mixed together and sorted by update time. I want Previous and Next page links for this main index as well. A next_news() loop with Combinews turned on does that just fine.
The theme custom menu will have a link for "Just Albums". That link will take you to gallery.php. That page is easily done using a next_album() loop.
The theme custom menu will have a link for "Just News Articles". That link will take you to news.php. That page is also easily done using a next_news() loop with combinews turned off.
What I think I want is the ability to toggle combinews on and off as desired in the theme code.
I started to try this but discovered that ` ZP_COMBINEWS ` is a constant and I don't have to time to hack though all the core code to test my theory right now. In addition, I suspect that making ` ZP_COMBINEWS ` into a global ` $_ZP_COMBINEWS ` would have a lot of unintended consequences. (I just looked a little deeper and there may not be that many unintended results after all...)
As an alternative, maybe an optional parameter on next_news() like parameter 2 on getLatestNews()
I do not want to write installation specific core code updates (hacks).
As my interim solution, based on a hint from acrylian, I tried turning combinews off and using `getLatestNews(10,'with_latestupdated_albums')` to return the 10 latest news and album changes. That seems to work as far as I have pursued it. That surprised me a lot because I expected that function to be controlled by combinews (which was turned off) but I still got album and article results mixed together. I do not want to use this approach because I will have to do a lot of theme code to display the attributes of the items and it will not support any kind of paging.
I apologize for rambling, but after restating the problem a little differently, does anybody have any suggestions on how to approach the problem?
Instead of changing ZP_COMBINEWS from a constant to a global, add a new global $zp_combinews and have the appropriate core code use the global instead of the constant. That way, default behavior can be maintained/restored as needed.
There is indeed no convenient way to disable combinews for the news loop temporarily. But you can always build anything using the object model directly. Another workaround is to attach a category like "news" to all articles and call that category to get articles only.
Anyway for such things you probably should open a ticket.
thanks