[pmwiki-users] News page and displaying a few recent news headers (Christian)
John Rankin
john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Thu Jul 17 18:57:57 CDT 2008
>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:21:03 +0200
>From: Christian Ridderstr?m <christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com>
>
[1] We have one page with news items at http://www.lyx.org/News.
> The appearance of that page is as follows:
> <Header-text>
> <date>
> <text-body-of-news>
>
> <Header>
> <date>
> <text-body-of-news>
>
> ...
>
[2] At the bottom of the home page, http://www.lyx.org/Home, we
> display the recent news, i.e. the five latest news items:
> * <Header-text> (date)
> * <Header-text> (date)
> ...
>
>What recipes/solutions are there for implementing the above in a way
>that's more 'pmwikiish'? The only requirements are really that:
>
>[3] Be able to list the recent news headers on a another page
>[4] Preferably store all the news items in a single page
>
One option would be to use one of the commentbox recipes, that
post "stories" to a designated wiki page. This will meet
requirements [1] and [4] (numbers added to original post).
The key thing about these recipes, which will let you meet
requirements [2] and [3], is that they wrap the components
of the posted comments in >>div<< blocks. This makes it a
straightforward task to read the news page, explode the
contents into a structured array of news items, and display
the first 5 as a list of headers and dates.
The most flexible solution is probably CommentBoxPlus; and
CommentBox would work too but has fewerfeatures.
JR
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