Spoondog wrote:

My b2evolution Version: 3.3.3
I'd just like to exclude the post content and just show the title, author, time.

Spoondog wrote:

Also tried the default simple post list widget, but it's a bit... simple (titles only).

I dont get exactly what your problem is .. so your problem is, latest posts widget or post list widget displays the title, that is okay, but you want it to show the author and the time in addition ? is that it

so your problem is, latest posts widget or post list widget displays the title, that is okay, but you want it to show the author and the time in addition ? is that it

I guess that's it, yes. But it'd also be nice to group the posts by date e.g.

16/05/2010

[u]We're up and running![/u] - author one - 14:15
[u]The usual news[/u] - author seven - 00:28
[u]thing cancelled[/u] - author three - 10:08

15/05/2010

[u]New site![/u] - author two - 14:20

etc...

Okay, off the top of my head, you could get exactly what you want by doing the following;

create a new custom display: http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=14046

call it disp_postlist or whatever..

in that custom display(page)

put this within post loop

			$MainList->date_if_changed( array(
					'date_format' => '#',
				) );

this will do the date thing you want..

as you dont want any content, just put the title in the loop

<?php $Item->title(); ?>

and the author & time right by side

	<?php	

      $Item->author( array(
				'after'        => '&nbsp;-&nbsp; ',
			) );

		$Item->issue_time( array(
			));	

That's about it.

Thank you - I can get the custom page to display but I'm not sure how to get a post loop in there - do I copy some post loop code from a particular file and put it in my custom display page? (and include your code).

Don't know my way around this very well at all :-/

yep, you can just duplicate your skin's posts.main.php and remove the bits you dont need there or add..

Cheers mate I'll give that a try.

Ok, there must be something I'm missing... I can get the custom display page to show, but I can't get any posts to show up.

This is what my custom display page looks like:

<?php
   
	//Check page isn't being accessed directly
	if( !defined('EVO_MAIN_INIT') ) die( 'Please, do not access this page directly.' );
	{
	    echo 'just a test line to see if the page is working';
	    // ------------------------------------ START OF POSTS ----------------------------------------
		// Display message if no post:
		display_if_empty();
	
		while( $Item = & mainlist_get_item() )
		{	// For each blog post, do everything below up to the closing curly brace "}"
			
		// ------------------------------ DATE SEPARATOR ------------------------------
		$MainList->date_if_changed( array(
			'date_format' => '#',
			) );
			
		// ------------------------------ POST DETAILS ------------------------------
	        
		$Item->title();
	
		$Item->author( array(
			'after'        => '&nbsp;-&nbsp; ',
			) );
	
		$Item->issue_time( array(
			));
	
		// ---------------------- ITEM BLOCK INCLUDED HERE ------------------------
		skin_include( '_item_block.inc.php', array(
				'content_mode' => 'auto',		// 'auto' will auto select depending on $disp-detail
				'image_size'	 =>	'fit-220x165',
			) );
		// ----------------------------END ITEM BLOCK  ----------------------------
	
		} // ---------------------------------- END OF POSTS ------------------------------------
		
		// -------------------- PREV/NEXT PAGE LINKS (POST LIST MODE) --------------------
		mainlist_page_links( array(
				'block_start' => '<div class="navigation">',
				'block_end' => '</div>',
	   			'prev_text' => '&lt;&lt;',
	   			'next_text' => '&gt;&gt;',
			) );
		// ------------------------- END OF PREV/NEXT PAGE LINKS -------------------------
	}
?>

...only thing that appears is my test echo at the top :-/

which skin are you using

tilqicom wrote:

which skin are you using

All will produce the same results ;)

You need to leave $disp as posts, otherwise you'll get no results.

Change your url to ?my_disp=whatever and then, in your posts.main.php change the very top of the file to read :

<?php
if( param('my_disp', 'string' ) )
{
   // include your custom disp
  exit();
}

¥

OK - I'm using the nifty corners skin and it doesn't actually have a posts.main.php... do I just make a blank one?

yep.. ¥åßßå was right.. it was not as straight-forward as i thought

I changed the URL to "?my_disp=allsports" and created a posts.main.php in the skin folder, but I get this error:

Warning: settype() [function.settype]: Invalid type in /home/ab4295/public_html/blogs/inc/_core/_param.funcs.php  on line 260
just a test line to see if the page is working

(so my test echo shows up... which is a start) This is what my posts.main.php looks like:

<?php
if( param('my_disp', 'allsports' ) )
{   
	//Check page isn't being accessed directly
	if( !defined('EVO_MAIN_INIT') ) die( 'Please, do not access this page directly.' );
	{
	    echo 'just a test line to see if the page is working';
	    // ------------------------------------ START OF POSTS ----------------------------------------
		// Display message if no post:
		display_if_empty();
	
		while( $Item = & mainlist_get_item() )
		{	// For each blog post, do everything below up to the closing curly brace "}"
			
		// ------------------------------ DATE SEPARATOR ------------------------------
		$MainList->date_if_changed( array(
			'date_format' => '#',
			) );
			
		// ------------------------------ POST DETAILS ------------------------------
	        
		$Item->title();
	
		$Item->author( array(
			'after'        => '&nbsp;-&nbsp; ',
			) );
	
		$Item->issue_time( array(
			));
	
		// ---------------------- ITEM BLOCK INCLUDED HERE ------------------------
		skin_include( '_item_block.inc.php', array(
				'content_mode' => 'auto',		// 'auto' will auto select depending on $disp-detail
				'image_size'	 =>	'fit-220x165',
			) );
		// ----------------------------END ITEM BLOCK  ----------------------------
	
		} // ---------------------------------- END OF POSTS ------------------------------------
		
		// -------------------- PREV/NEXT PAGE LINKS (POST LIST MODE) --------------------
		mainlist_page_links( array(
				'block_start' => '<div class="navigation">',
				'block_end' => '</div>',
	   			'prev_text' => '&lt;&lt;',
	   			'next_text' => '&gt;&gt;',
			) );
		// ------------------------- END OF PREV/NEXT PAGE LINKS -------------------------
	}
	exit();
}
?>

There is no param type allsports ;)

If you don't have a posts.main then you can modify index.main.php instead, it'd be a tad easier

find :

// This is the main template; it may be used to display very different things.
// Do inits depending on current $disp:
skin_init( $disp );

Change to :

// This is the main template; it may be used to display very different things.
// Do inits depending on current $disp:
skin_init( $disp );
if( param('my_disp', 'string' ) )
{
  $disp = param('my_disp', 'string' );
}

Your original custom disp page should now work.

¥

Thanks ¥åßßå B) I'll give that a try when I get home.

Right... so following your instructions I got the custom disp page showing (I had to put skin_init( $disp ); after the if( param('my_disp', 'string' ) ) bit).

However I'm now back to my original problem of getting these posts to show up (and in the format mentioned in my second post). I basically just copied what I thought was the "posts" section of index.main.php to my custom _allsports.disp.php and added the lines tilqicom suggested... but the only thing that shows up are the test echos:

_allsports.disp.php

<?php
	//Check page isn't being accessed directly
	if( !defined('EVO_MAIN_INIT') ) die( 'Please, do not access this page directly.' );
	{
	    echo 'just a test line to see if the page is working<br>';
	    // ------------------------------------ START OF POSTS ----------------------------------------
		// Display message if no post:
		display_if_empty();
	
		while( $Item = & mainlist_get_item() )
		{	// For each blog post, do everything below up to the closing curly brace "}"
			
		// ------------------------------ DATE SEPARATOR ------------------------------
		$MainList->date_if_changed( array(
			'date_format' => '#',
			) );
			
		// ------------------------------ POST DETAILS ------------------------------
	        
		$Item->title();
	
		$Item->author( array(
			'after'        => '&nbsp;-&nbsp; ',
			) );
	
		$Item->issue_time( array(
			));
	
		// ---------------------- ITEM BLOCK INCLUDED HERE ------------------------
		skin_include( '_item_block.inc.php', array(
				'content_mode' => 'auto',		// 'auto' will auto select depending on $disp-detail
				'image_size'	 =>	'fit-220x165',
			) );
		// ----------------------------END ITEM BLOCK  ----------------------------
	
		} // ---------------------------------- END OF POSTS ------------------------------------
		
		// -------------------- PREV/NEXT PAGE LINKS (POST LIST MODE) --------------------
		mainlist_page_links( array(
				'block_start' => '<div class="navigation">',
				'block_end' => '</div>',
	   			'prev_text' => '&lt;&lt;',
	   			'next_text' => '&gt;&gt;',
			) );
		// ------------------------- END OF PREV/NEXT PAGE LINKS -------------------------
		echo 'just another test line to see if the page got through';
	}
?>

¥åßßå wrote:

You need to leave $disp as posts, otherwise you'll get no results.

Add the following to your index.main.php, and see what it spits out :

if( is_logged_in() )
{
  pre_dump( $disp );
}
if( param( 'my_disp' ..........

You can delete the new code after you've refreshed, obviously you need to be logged in to see the output ;)

¥

This is what it spits out:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ab4295/public_html/blogs/inc/_core/_misc.funcs.php:1441) in /home/ab4295/public_html/blogs/inc/_core/_template.funcs.php on line 59

Just before that it should have shown you the output of pre_dump()

¥

Ah - the admin bar was covering it up! This is what it says:

string(5) "posts"

Excellent, that's what it needs to be.

So, lets start again, the link to your page needs to be :

http://domain.tld/?my_disp=allsports

You then change index.main.php as below :
¥åßßå wrote:

find :

// This is the main template; it may be used to display very different things.
// Do inits depending on current $disp:
skin_init( $disp );

Change to :

// This is the main template; it may be used to display very different things.
// Do inits depending on current $disp:
skin_init( $disp );
if( param('my_disp', 'string' ) )
{
  $disp = param('my_disp', 'string' );
}

Then, further down in the file your code should look like :

John wrote:

<?php
		// -------------- MAIN CONTENT TEMPLATE INCLUDED HERE (Based on $disp) --------------
		skin_include( '$disp$', array(
				'disp_posts'  => '',		// We already handled this case above
				'disp_single' => '',		// We already handled this case above
				'disp_page'   => '',		// We already handled this case above
              'disp_allsports'	 => '_allsports.disp.php',
				) );
		// Note: you can customize any of the sub templates included here by
		// copying the matching php file into your skin directory.
		// ------------------------- END OF MAIN CONTENT TEMPLATE ---------------------------
	?> 

If you then hit that url, after changing to the appropriate domain, then you should get your custom disp && posts

¥

Ok... no luck.

PM'ing you the URL and details if you don't mind... seeing it might help.

Your problem is the naff "redirect to canonical urls" stuff that's in recent versions of evo :-S

admin > blog settings > [blog] > seo, untick all the canonical redirect crap > hit save > hit the url you pm'd me with, with the last file changes I posted > hopefully smile.

Why the hell blog software feels that it should do search spiders work for them is beyond me, they earn enough money to pay their own programmers to sort their own shit algorithms out. /rant

¥

Cool thanks I turned all those off.

Now the problem is, the test echo at the beginning of my custom display shows after the posts... is it even going to be possible to alter the appearance of the posts using a custom display page?

Any ideas on this?

I've tried tilqicom's method of creating a custom display page to modify the post contents - I have the custom display working now but I can't seem to do anything to the posts with it (not sure if I'm doing it right).

[u]To recap[/u] - I'm looking to get a summary of posts from other blogs, so it looks something like this on the main page:

16/05/2010

[u]We're up and running![/u] - author one - 14:15
[u]The usual news[/u] - author seven - 00:28
[u]thing cancelled[/u] - author three - 10:08

15/05/2010

[u]New site![/u] - author two - 14:20

etc...

I took a look at summary.php and it's kinda what I'm after with the cut-down post summaries but I'd just like the x most recent posts across all blogs and not latest x posts per blog (and it seems I'm not savvy enough to modify it myself).

Again, any help appreciated!

FYI - I ended up just aggregating the blogs I wanted to include in the post summary and duplicating the skin folder, commenting out the parts of the post I didn't need in _item_block.inc.php and a few css style edits - got exactly what I was after!