News table within same border?

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

I did a quick search and didn't see anything informative so I'll just ask.

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Its running RN2.10.01

Currently it creates a new table around each news article added, what I'd like to happen is for them to stay within one table.
I've played around with the index.php and articles.php under the news module but I'm not seeing anything. Am I looking in the right file? The story_home.htm file does nothing for me either.

Any leads would be helpful,
helz

montego · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:20 pm

Well, unfortunately, there are a wide variety of themes out there, but, you can be rest assured that function themeindex() within theme.php drives it all. story_home.html was the right idea. What you have to find is the code within themeindex() that pulls in story_home.html. I think that you'll want to have story_home.html start and end with the <tr> and </tr> tags, and move the <table> and </table> into the function.

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

Thanks for the quick reply. I played with the code abit but haven't a clue where to put the table tags at.

Code:

$tmpl_file = "themes/Poisonblades/story_home.html";
$thefile = implode("", file($tmpl_file));
$thefile = addslashes($thefile);
$thefile = "\$r_file=\"".$tmpl_file."\";";

I've tweaked the html file to start and end with <tr> </tr>. I then tried adding the open/closetags at the start and end, no luck. Tried adding
$thefile .= '<table>';
$thefile .= '</table>';
there at the ends but I'm having no luck with my trail and error approach. It looks like its something simple but its kicking my ass Razz

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 2847

Well story_home.html is processed per story. So you can't just wrap a table around that code

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

bustin my bubble you be lol. So... I would need to insert the entire story process/function into a table? Or even then I'd be sol?

evaders99 · Moderator Joined: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 2847

You probably need to find where themeindex is called in modules/News/index.php and put your table there

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

oh almost got it. looks like I got some sloppy code somewhere.

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

Sweet, fixed my sloppy rush job and now its working good enough. Still need to tweak it abit but thats the easy part. Thanks for the quick replies and for telling me where I needed to be looking.

Helz

montego · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:29 am

helsnicht, sorry about that. Was thinking themeindex() was called only once. Sorry... was trying to go off of memory.

Thanks Evaders!