[v3Articles & vbAdvanced CMPS] Featured Article Front Page Module (Basic)
 

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This takes the same featured article teaser that displays on your article.php page, and pulls it in as a center column module in CMPS.

The template is easy to edit, so you should be able to have it show up any way you like. The number of characters to be displayed is controlled by what you set (or is set by default) in the v3article settings, but could be hard coded in cmps_feature if you wish it to be different.

I said 'basic' in the subject line, because there are other people working on much more advanced and involved implementations of this. Also, the image handling code is commented out in cmps_feature.php, it should work fine if you remove the comments, but that's not something I've tested as I don't want the image functionality for the front page.

Thanks to John for v3articles and Tigga/Brian for both CMPS and the last key bit of info that made this module work. Not surprisingly, both are up for HotM. Too bad it's at the same time, I want to vote for both.

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If the screenshot doesn't help, you can see this in use at http://www.buckeyeplanet.com

Thnx though the screenshot is not clear.. I will check it out.. I have CMPS installed

thnx

Good work, but I don't like the way it is.

I mean....who makes that many articles in one day?

No idea what you mean. One article gets flagged as 'featured' in the v3articles area, and the teaser for that appears by itself on the CMPS index page. In the case of the site used in the example, it's the top center column table.

It's no CMS...

What are you guys on about?

This is an ADDON like it says by the word 'module'.

This pulls the featured article from v3articles onto the mainpage of your site, which I asked for in the v3articles thread, so thanks wcbryant, *I* appreciate it. :up:

Great work, Bryant! Installed like a charm and quite a needed feature of our boards!

Thanks!

Max
Marijuana.Com

it crashes the main page if there is no featured artical ......

any fix?

Well - in looking for a fix for this, I realized that there appears to be no way to unset an article from being a feature once it is set as a feature article.

Im I overlooking something, or is making an article a feature no reversable?

max

Thankyou for sharing your work with the community :)