Thanks for your work! 
Great work but a couple of things that happened to me....
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Just installed version 2.9 of anynews and get the following error
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home1/gvaaeu1/public_html/..domain../modules/cwsoft-anynews/include.php on line 107 which is described in the following lines of code...
/**
Add Twig filter to allow datetime conversion via PHP strftime function
Example: {{ timestamp | strftime('%A, %B %Y', ['de_DE','german','deu']) }}
Help on format strings:
http://ch1.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php */
$twig->addFilter(new Twig_SimpleFilter('strftime', function ($timestamp, $format, $locales) {
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locales);
return strftime($format, $timestamp);
}));
I had to comment out this line to get it to work.
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Also i placed the anynews section just after the "minislider".... and two things have happened......
a) the news items have lost the ability to link (not click able0
b) any time the cursor goes over the news item the mini slider pictures- puse... it treats the anynews section as its own ....picture space.... possibly a jquery problem.
Any ideas?
see
http://sprintforce.com.au to verify my comment
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System info: PHP 5.2.17, WB 2.83 sp1 (1638)
Anynews code used:
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if (function_exists('displayNewsItems')) {
echo displayNewsItems(
$group_id = 0,
$max_news_items = 4,
$max_news_length = -1,
$display_mode = 2,
$lang_id = 'AUTO',
$strip_tags = true,
$allowed_tags = '<p><a><img>',
$custom_placeholder = false,
$sort_by = 1,
$sort_order = 1,
$not_older_than = 0,
$group_id_type = 'group_id',
$lang_filter = false );
}