Extra Line Break In Stories

LCJ_Eric · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 9

I am having a weird problem and can't seem to find where to fix it. Anytime a story is posted (through "submit news") it has two very annoying extra line breaks like this example:

There is the " on the first line and then a line break. There is also a line break at the end of all articles and a quote orphaned at the bottom. What I want it to look like is this:

OR....
I would even be fine with getting rid of those quote marks completely.

Does anyone have any ideas on this? I am stumped!

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 2749

What theme are you using? You'd probably check the themeindex function in theme.php

LCJ_Eric · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 9

I am using XPMidnight and fiapple211. Both exhibit the problem, but XPMidnight is the main theme used. There are two areas I believe that may hold the solution, but I am not sure which one holds the answer.

Here is the FormatStory section from theme.php for XPMidnight

Code:

I made some changes in the first one to get rid of the italic formatting of the stories. I assumed (most likely mistakenly) that this is where my line break problem was too, bu I didn't see it in there. I am a total PHP n00b so that prolly doesn't help.

Thanks to everyone in advance for their thoughts.

LCJ_Eric · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 9

I never did get this figure out. Anyone have any ideas on this?

floppydrivez · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:56 am

First off I would like to say if you would use the code tags provided with phpbb it would make your post a lot easier to follow.

Open theme.php of your current theme. Find function themearticle

The below is an example not exactly sure what yours will look like.

Code:

if($informant != "") {
$content = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=$informant\">$informant</a> ";
} else {
$content = "$anonymous ";
}
$content .= ""._WRITES." \"$thetext\"$notes\n";
}

The only line needed out of that whole bit to pull this hack off is

Code:

$content .= " \"$thetext\"$notes\n";

LCJ_Eric · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 9

Sorry about not using the code tags. Liek I said - I am not saavy at php.

I found themearticle, but the code you refereced is not located there in my theme. It is in themeindex where evaders first pointed me.

Code:

Let me add that this occurs anytime a story is posted by a user OTHER THAN me. If I post a story, it doesn't happen.

I know I could just take out the "<username> writes" but I want the contributors to get proper credit.

If you take a look at the site (www.lcjs.org) you can see what I mean

floppydrivez · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:29 pm

Try something like this

Code:

$boxstuff .= "".translate("<i>writes</i>")."<br />\"$thetext\"$notes\n"; echo "<font class=\"content\" color=\"#505050\">$boxstuff</font>\n";
}
}

floppydrivez · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:34 pm

Notice all I did was add <br /> before the first slash close to the $thetext

LCJ_Eric · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 9

I tried as you suggested, here are the results:

Before The Change
DUNKS writes "
LCJ Highway Clean-up
There has been an impromptu Highway.....

After The Change
DUNKS writes
"
LCJ Highway Clean-up
There has been an impromptu Highway.....

What I would really like it to be is:
DUNKS writes
"LCJ Highway Clean-up
There has been an impromptu Highway.....

OR

DUNKS writes...
LCJ Highway Clean-up
There has been an impromptu Highway.....

or something similar.

I really just want the quote mark, if there must be one, to be on the same line the actual story begins on.

I really do appreciate your help!

floppydrivez · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:27 pm

Looks like where ever $thetext is formed there is a break.

I may have to try it on my local to get the desired result. I am just guessing atm.

floppydrivez · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:34 pm

Try it like this

Code:

<br />$thetext\"$notes\n

LCJ_Eric · New Member Joined: Oct 26, 2005 Posts: 9

Excellent - I believe I have success. Here is what I ended up up for code:

Code:

$boxstuff .= "".translate("<i>writes</i>")."...<br />$thetext $notes"; echo "<font class=\"content\" color=\"#505050\">$boxstuff</font>\n";

Everything looks like how I ultimately wanted it.
The quote marks are gone completely and I have an elipses (spelling?) after "writes"

I had to make one extra change to get it to be how it is now. The code was

Code:

<br />$thetext\$notes\n";

It now is

Code:

<br />$thetext $notes";

If that seems legit, I am going to call it good as it look great from a visualk standpoint.