News Modules

azid · October 2014

Hi,

I was modified the news module http://docs.getfuelcms.com/general/pages-variables#news and want to plug into my first page but I got some questions:

What I modified:
1/ Added a "language" field in Database
2/ Modified the news view file style


<?php 
$slug = uri_segment(2);
if (!empty($slug))
{
	$news_item = fuel_model('news', array('find' => 'one', 'where' => array('slug' => $slug)));
	if (empty($news_item)) show_404();
}
else
{
	$news = fuel_model('news');
}
?>

<?php if (!empty($news_item)) : ?>

<?php fuel_set_var('page_title', $news_item->headline); ?>
	
	<blockquote class="blockquote-red">
		<p><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i> <?=$news_item->release_date_formatted?></p>
		<p><?=$news_item->content_formatted?></p>
	</blockquote>

<?php else: ?>


<?php foreach($news as $item) : ?>

	<blockquote class="blockquote-red">
		<p><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i> <?=$item->release_date_formatted?></p>
		<p><?=$item->get_excerpt_formatted(200, 'Read more »')?></p>
	</blockquote>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Questions:
1/ I plugged the following code in my CMS "home" Pages body, is any other way to do it as I want to view the news in different language.


<h4 class="heading-red">Latest News</h4>
{$load->view('news')}

2/ How can I view the database by different language?
3/ How can I limit the foreach to 2 latest news?

Many thanks

admin · October 2014

1. You can use the Fuel_language class to detect the language of a page. I'll usually add the following to the fuel/application/views/_variables/global.php file so the $language variable is available on every page$varrs['language'] = $CI->fuel->language->detect();
I'd recommend reading the following documentations about the Language class and how you can
http://docs.getfuelcms.com/general/localization
http://docs.getfuelcms.com/libraries/fuel_language
2. You'll need to add it as a where parameter in your query (see #3)
3. $news = fuel_model('news', array('limit' => 2, 'language' => $language));

azid · October 2014

@admin

Let me study and try!

Many thanks.

azid · October 2014

Thanks! It work perfectly. Here is my code for reference.

1/ Added the following to the fuel/application/views/_variables/global.php file.
$vars['language'] = $CI->fuel->language->detect();

View file:


<?php 
$slug = uri_segment(2);
if (!empty($slug))
{
	$news_item = fuel_model('news', array('find' => 'one', 'where' => array('slug' => $slug, 'language' => $language)));
	if (empty($news_item)) show_404();
}
else
{
	$news = fuel_model('news', array('limit' => 2, 'where' => array ('language' => $language), 'order' => 'release_date desc'));
}
?>

<?php if (!empty($news_item)) : ?>

<?php fuel_set_var('page_title', $news_item->headline); ?>
	
	<blockquote class="blockquote-red">
		<p><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i> <?=$news_item->release_date_formatted?></p>
		<p><?=$news_item->content_formatted?></p>
	</blockquote>

<?php else: ?>


<?php foreach($news as $item) : ?>

	<blockquote class="blockquote-red">
		<p><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i> <?=$item->release_date_formatted?></p>		
		<p><?=$item->get_excerpt_formatted(200, 'Read more »')?></p>
	</blockquote>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

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