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firebrand media

05-02-2012 07:59 PM

Add fields to CMS articles

I need to pull "featured" articles to a home page.

I was advised:

Quote:

Best way would be:
-adding a custom variable to articles. Featured? Yes/No.
Then you can edit an article and toggle this variable.
- Then make an widget that grabs the articles with featured variable yes. Then you can display them in a slideshow or whatever means you see fit.

I'm new to serious vBulletin hacking so I have a bunch of questions:

How does one one add a "custom variable" to an article? These terms are too generic to yield useful searches. :) I don't see anything in the UI, so I'm assuming I need to add some code, but where?
How do I access these custom variables? Do I need to do something to the database, or is that all handled?

I'm certainly not afraid to code, I just need some documentation on how this stuff works.

Lynne

05-02-2012 08:51 PM

You may want to see this article - How to add a new field to the CMS

firebrand media

05-03-2012 02:41 PM

I added this question to that article's thread, but you lost me on step 1.

Quote:

Create a new field in cms_node

Could you add an appropriate article link to that thread?

Lynne

05-03-2012 03:03 PM

cms_node is a table in the database. So, you need to add your custom field to the table.

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