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Widget: Latest Articles In Section · **Released**: 01-06-2010

Latest Articles In Section

What is does:
vBCMS only has one option for latest articles and that is all sections and categories. This widget will allow you to display the latest articles in a specific section.

Change Log:
1.0 - Initial Release
1.1 - Updated to allow more than one section & display published date.
1.2 - Small update, no need to update unless you are using a table prefix.
1.3 - Added full page text if no previewtext row exists.
1.4 - Updated to not show unpublished articles.
1.5 - Updated read more link to look more vBulletin related.
1.6 - Small change to fix 4.0.2 [ATTACH] showing in text.

Installation:

Goto AdminCP-vBullietin CMS-Widgets->Create New Widget
Choose PHP Direct Execution as Widget's Type
Enter A Title IE: "Latest (Insert Your Section Name Here)"
Click Save
Click Configure
Remove all the default code.
Copy and Paste the code below first editing $section and $limit to your liking
Click Save
Goto AdminCP-vBullietin CMS-Layout Manager
Add the Widget to your Layout
Click Save

How do I find my section id?
When clicking on your section you should see something like this:

Quote:

http://www.domain.com/content.php?11

The number after ? in this case 11 is your section id.

Can I enter more than one section id?
Yes simply change $section = '11' to something like $section='11, 12, 13'

Code to copy(make sure you change $section and $limit!)

PHP Code:


			
// Set Your Section ID Here
$section = '11';
// Set The Number of Articles To Display
$limit = '1';
// Set The Height of The Thumbnail Image
$height = '250';
// Set The Width of The Thumbnail Image
$width = '250';

$articlegrab = vB::$db->query_read("
SELECT ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.title
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewimage
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewtext
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.pagetext
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid 
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.url
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish
  FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node
  WHERE (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid)
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid)
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode IN ($section))
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish != 0)
  ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate DESC LIMIT $limit
");


while($articleinfo = vB::$db->fetch_array($articlegrab)) {

    $title = $articleinfo['title'];
    $image = $articleinfo['previewimage'];
    $text = $articleinfo['previewtext'];
    $nodeid = $articleinfo['nodeid'];
    $url = $articleinfo['url'];
    $unixdate = $articleinfo['publishdate']; 
    $date = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unixdate);  
    $fulltext = strip_bbcode($fulltext);
    $text = preg_replace('/\[ATTACH\=CONFIG\]\d\d\[\/ATTACH\]/', '', $text);
    $text = strip_bbcode($text);


   if($text == '') $text = substr($fulltext, 0,150);
    
    $output .= '<center>';
    if($image != '') $output .= "<img src='".$image."' width='".$width."px' height='".$height."px' /><br />";
    
    $output .= "<a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'>".$title."</a><br /><p>Publish Date: ".$date."</p></br></center><p>".$text." <a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'> <img alt='Read More' src='images/cms/read_more-right.png' title='Read More' border='0'></a></p><br />";
}

Preview:

For Category Mod See Here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232440

inigo · #**102** 12-12-2011, 07:11 AM

I have another important question:

How can I take the category name over all the articles listed?

For random categories (the widget title is not a solution)

Thanks!

romaszek · #**103** 02-11-2012, 06:36 PM

Sorry, I don′t get the idea as to connect this code:

Quote:

Originally Posted by XManuX

Note that you can "easily" modify it to have the "best rated articles of this month"

1?) Add this in the SELECTed fields :

Code:

, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.ratingtotal

2?) Add this condition in your request to limit results to the current month (and year) :

Code:

AND (MONTH(FROM_UNIXTIME(".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate))=MONTH(NOW()) AND YEAR(FROM_UNIXTIME(".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate))=YEAR(NOW()))

3?) Replace the ORDER part :

Code:

ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate DESC LIMIT $limit

with:

Code:

ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.ratingtotal DESC LIMIT $limit

4?) In the While (where all variables are initialized) :

Code:

$rating = $articleinfo['ratingtotal'];

5?) Add somewhere in the $output string definition:

Code:

<span class=\"cmsrating rating{$rating}\"></span>

Regards.

With this code, please for the help.

PHP Code:


			
// Set Your Section ID Here
$section = '11';
// Set The Number of Articles To Display
$limit = '1';
// Set The Height of The Thumbnail Image
$height = '250';
// Set The Width of The Thumbnail Image
$width = '250';

$articlegrab = vB::$db->query_read("
SELECT ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.title
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewimage
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.previewtext
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.pagetext
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid 
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.url
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate
    , ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish
  FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo
, ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node
  WHERE (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_nodeinfo.nodeid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.nodeid)
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_article.contentid = ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.contentid)
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.parentnode IN ($section))
    AND (".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.setpublish != 0)
  ORDER BY ".TABLE_PREFIX."cms_node.publishdate DESC LIMIT $limit
");


while($articleinfo = vB::$db->fetch_array($articlegrab)) {

    $title = $articleinfo['title'];
    $image = $articleinfo['previewimage'];
    $text = $articleinfo['previewtext'];
    $nodeid = $articleinfo['nodeid'];
    $url = $articleinfo['url'];
    $unixdate = $articleinfo['publishdate']; 
    $date = date("F j, Y, g:i a", $unixdate);  
    $fulltext = strip_bbcode($fulltext);
    $text = preg_replace('/\[ATTACH\=CONFIG\]\d\d\[\/ATTACH\]/', '', $text);
    $text = strip_bbcode($text);


   if($text == '') $text = substr($fulltext, 0,150);
    
    $output .= '<center>';
    if($image != '') $output .= "<img src='".$image."' width='".$width."px' height='".$height."px' /><br />";
    
    $output .= "<a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'>".$title."</a><br /><p>Publish Date: ".$date."</p></br></center><p>".$text." <a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'> <img alt='Read More' src='images/cms/read_more-right.png' title='Read More' border='0'></a></p><br />";
}

This works for 4.1.10

Very Thanks

Somebody will help?

Preech · #**104** 03-09-2012, 11:21 AM

I figured out how to get the image on the left, and text on the right. It looks better if your title isn't to long.

PHP Code:


			
 $output .= '<div align="center">';

    if($image != '') $output .= "<p><img src='".$image."' align=\"left\" margin-top: 3px margin-bottom: 3px width='".$width."px' height='".$height."px'  style=\"border: solid 3px #DADFCB /><br />";

    

    $output .= "<span style=\"font-size:11px\"> <a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'>".$title."</a></span></p></br><br /><hr class='vbt_line' /></div>";

monoco · #**105** 06-05-2012, 06:10 PM

I had this mod working fine before the upgrade to 4.1.11 and now the widgets will not show the previewtext.

It will show title, image and if set to the pagetext.

Any idea what the problem could be ?

mmacrypt · #**106** 06-21-2012, 06:48 PM

anybody know if this would work with a Group ID, I think I'm going to give it a try but I'm running 4.2 so we shall see what happens.

Preech · #**107** 06-22-2012, 04:07 AM

It still works on 4.2 I have changed my code of how it looks. Maybe I'll post it. It helped me alot with longer titles. I just haven't figured out how to get the preview text to show on 4.2.

Preech · #**108** 01-11-2013, 02:30 AM

I was having issues with vbseo, than I just did this.

PHP Code:


			
<a href='content.php?".$nodeid."-".$url."'>

and changed it to this.

PHP Code:


			
<a href='/content.php?r=".$nodeid."-".$url."'>

Clicking the links seemed to work. Also I am getting my preview text to work as well. There is no demo as of now, because I am still redesigning the look of my website. Sorry and I apologize.

case-dk · #**109** 01-26-2013, 09:17 AM

Thanks to OcR Envy. Works in 4.2.
Just had to insert a piece of code: $fulltext=$articleinfo['pagetext'];
I have my category-ID in the URL and read the string into the widget.
Then i dont have to make a Widget for every category i use.
Greetings

goxy63 · #**110** 02-18-2013, 11:08 PM

Most of my articles have video instead of image, that is there is no images just youtube video, and with this widget there is no preview of youtube video [scaled] as under primary content I got now in CMS

This widget would be great if I will be able to show scaled youtube video

Thanks

stefano9lli · #**111** 06-19-2013, 08:18 AM

Fix for VBSeo

Into FTP duplicate content.php (rename it as contents.php) and link it to the new structure

Code:

contents.php?$nodeid

it results like

contents.php?512 => i.e. http://www.inforge.net/community/contentsp.php?518

###########

For previewtext i'm searching for a tweak

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