[mello_mike]

Originally Posted by TRStealth

Hi,

I'm trying to get the 'Featured Article' thing to show up on the index page, but I'm having trouble.

I got the featured_article template to show, but the actual featured article won't.

I've added the following to the index.php page:

PHP Code:

$globaltemplates = array(
    'FORUMHOME',
    'forumhome_event',
    'forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost',
    'forumhome_forumbit_level1_post',
    'forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost',
    'forumhome_forumbit_level2_post',
    'forumhome_lastpostby',
    'forumhome_loggedinuser',
    'forumhome_moderator',
    'forumhome_pmloggedin',
    'forumhome_subforumbit_nopost',
    'forumhome_subforumbit_post',
    'forumhome_subforumseparator_nopost',
    'forumhome_subforumseparator_post',
    'article_featured'
); 


then

PHP Code:

require_once('./includes/functions_articles.php'); 


And finally

PHP Code:

// ### Start Articles

        $featuredarticle = unserialize($datastore['featuredarticle']);
        if ($featuredarticle['id'])
        {
            $feature = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT article.*, articlepost.*, articlecategory.options AS options FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "article AS article
            INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "articlepost AS articlepost ON (articlepost.postid = article.firstpostid)
            INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "articlecategory AS articlecategory ON (articlecategory.categoryid = article.categoryid)
            WHERE article.articleid=$featuredarticle[id]");
        }
        if (!empty($feature['title']))
        {
        
            // do html
            if ($feature['options'] & 256)
            {
                $dohtml = 1;
            }
            
            if ($feature['options'] & 512)
            {
                $dosmilies = 1;
            }
            
            // get an attachment, if there's one with a thumnail
            $attachment = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT attachmentid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "articleattachment WHERE articleid=$featuredarticle[id] AND thumbnail_dateline>1 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 0,1");
            if (!empty($attachment['attachmentid']))
            {
                $GLOBALS['isattachment'] = true;
            }            
            
            require_once('./includes/functions_bbcodeparse.php');
            $feature['postbody'] = truncate_text($feature['postbody'], $vboptions['featuredlength'], 1);
            $feature['postbody'] = parse_bbcode2($feature['postbody'], $dohtml, 0, $dosmilies, 1);
    
            eval('$articlecontent .= "' . fetch_template('article_featured') . '";');
        }
        
// ### End Articles


// ### ALL DONE! SPIT OUT THE HTML AND LET'S GET OUTA HERE... ###
eval('$articlecontent .= "' . fetch_template('article_featured') . '";');
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";');
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('FORUMHOME') . '");'); 


However, this only displays the template, like I said. It doesn't show the featured article.

Hey I figured out how to add the featured article to the Forum Home...

You basically do everything you just did... plus

add $articlecontent to your FORUMHOME template

also in your index.php file

change

PHP Code:

$specialtemplates = array(
    'userstats',
    'birthdaycache',
    'maxloggedin',
    'iconcache',
    'eventcache',
    'mailqueue' 


to

PHP Code:

$specialtemplates = array(
    'userstats',
    'birthdaycache',
    'maxloggedin',
    'iconcache',
    'eventcache',
    'mailqueue',
    'featuredarticle'
); 


Now whenever you feature an article it will also show on the Forum home... hope that helps.