News-XTD module (items with visibility dates)

[pcwacht]

(Did search this forum, didn't find the answers I needed, if I overlooked them... sorry )

Running a website (intranet) for school, I need to place content items with visibility dates.

With this code : https://www.websitebaker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=409 or this https://www.websitebaker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=721 I can get the news from a group on a page, adding some php to it so it will check for the dates.
Next I need is adding dates with news items, example
today = let's say 1st july, need to publish the news item from 15 july to 15 august
Then I would need to add those dates with the news items. First one is visible from, last one is visible till. When first not set it will be visible from start, when last not set it will be visible till the end.

Could anyone point me to the files where I could start adding this to the news mod?
Other question, is there a way to duplicate the news mod to another named mod so I can tinker with that one instead, maybe release it as a new mod?

Thanks in advance

John

[pcwacht]

Basicly the above is divided into 2 diff tasks

1 - clone a module
2 - enhance a module

1 is done
Was quit easy, copied all the files from module/news
changed all database tables in all files
changed all path instances in all files
zipped it, installed it, tested it.

2 halfway done
- added vis_from and vis_till (visible from and untill) in table ..._posts
- added from and to fields (visibility dates) in post entry form
tested it, that worked

next to do:
- include date-fields for includion/exclusion in view and search routine
- add easy picking dates routine for the both vis_ fields

Fedit: MOVED

[pcwacht]

The NEWSXTD (news-extended) module is allmost done.

Think I have got it... just a wee point to solve.
Making sure the search won't bring the 'not-visible'-items up

Please give me some input on the search, how to exclude not-visible items
and input / comments on the stuff I have done so far.

I have used a datepicker for easy selection of dates (and making sure the dateformat is allways the same ) I have used this one wich is fully GNU LGPL : http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/.

Download of preview of newsxtd module is at : http://www.pcwacht.nl/newsxtd.zip


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[pcwacht]

Still searching for the search routine update so it won't show the non-visible items...

But.....

I didn't like the ' Read More ' thing when the news item had no long text (no body).
So I changed it

When there is no long (or body) text it won't show the Read More link anymore.

[valerie]

I didn't like the ' Read More ' thing when the news item had no long text (no body).
So I changed it

When there is no long (or body) text it won't show the Read More link anymore.

Thanks for your work on this mod. I'm trying it out and I installed it and everything works great except I still get the "Read More" link. I didn't add anything to the long text field, just the short text. Did I miss something else that I need to do?

Thanks.

[pcwacht]

It was just a minor change I made after zipping it up, sorry.

I have rezipped the lot, please down it again and uninstall  and re-install the mod or just overwrite the view.php



Cheers,
John

[Woudloper]

Nice module. I am testing it out right now. The thing I am wondering if you are going to extend some more functions for this news module?

In the other thread someone suggested a feature to limit the output to a certain range. Would it be possible to add something like this to the 'settings' section of the extended module?

Furthermore would it be possible to disable/enabling showing the author of the post?

[fienieg]

Furthermore would it be possible to disable/enabling showing the author of the post?

Showing the author name can be changed when pressed on the news page, and then settings and then changing the css display code

[Olli]

@pcwacht: thanks for your work! this is exactly what i need.
you need to tweak the way of searching for visible / invisible items?
i'm going to look at the code this weekend. maybe i can help you if you want me to.

bye

just a quick note:
on line 53 of save_post.php it says:

Code:

if ($vis_till = "0000-00-00") { ...

it has to be

Code:

if ($vis_till == "0000-00-00") { ...

right?
i'm a bit confused right now

bye

[pcwacht]

You are right about both things

the if .. == .. is the right one, stupid I have missed it

and the search still searches for items wich visibility are out of current date.

Just made it in my earlt WB days to see how modules etc are made.

If you can solve the search thing the module could be upgraded to stable



John

[Olli]

hi john,
sorry, but what search do you exactly mean by the way? do you mean the global site search?

unfortunately i have to leave now, so i'll try it this evening or tomorrow. i'll tell you about it then,ok?

have a nice weekend

bye

[pcwacht]

Each module has it's own search routine wich is embedded in the global search (in the mysql table)

Need to figure a way so search will not find the invisible items.

John

[Olli]

hello john,
i think i have to to throw in the towel. i messed around with those search querys for 2 days now with no success

but it think using the mysql-function curdate() in some way could be a solution. i'm sorry i can't help you 

[pcwacht]

Ah well, you can allways disable the search ....

[Olli]

ah yeah that's right, but maybe there is a better programmer than me out there willing to help? i would LOVE to see this module fixed

please if anybody can: fix this isssue

best wishes,
olli

[pcwacht]

There is a query in the module wich works. It is in the view page. This query only show visible items.

I just don't know how to integrate this into the search routine....
view.php line: 97

Code:

$vis_today = date("Y-m-d");
$query_total_num = $database->query("SELECT post_id FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."mod_newsxtd_posts WHERE vis_from <= '$vis_today' AND vis_till >= '$vis_today' AND section_id = '$section_id' AND active = '1' AND title != ''$query_extra" );
$total_num = $query_total_num->numRows();

John

[Olli]

hey john,
i'll look at it once more this week.

i can't stand this defeat

[pcwacht]

Me neither.... but I must prioratize stuff since my days are only this long.....

I will eventually get to this one again..

Dunnoh if you are good at php, one other minor issue is kinda bugging me.
If you search for text from the news long text, the found page is allways the news page
Imagine dozens of news posts.....

Allso on low on my priority list .

John (who allso dislikes pc related defeats)

[pcwacht]

Hmmm the Not Actives allso show up??

[pcwacht]

I won.

try this in search -> querybody (for the news_xtd that is!)

Code:

[TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.title LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.short LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.long LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_comments.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_comments.title LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_comments.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_comments.comment LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.header LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.footer LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.post_header LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.post_footer LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.comments_header LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.comments_footer LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)
OR [TP]pages.page_id = [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.page_id AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_settings.comments_footer LIKE '%[STRING]%' AND (
CURDATE( )
BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from
AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till
)

The code wich does the trick is :
AND ( CURDATE( ) BETWEEN [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_from AND [TP]mod_newsxtd_posts.vis_till )

I know it can be done way smoother, but this is the start.

Hope this gives you the boost to tinker some more ?
Things need to be done, clean up that search code, it is way too much, searching in headers and footers
Include the active from post, so the search won't show inactive's


Happy baking!
John