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storiesext - v2.0

Author: Erik Spaan

PostNuke Version: PostNuke adam_baum .800

pnAPI Compliancy: No

pnRender Compliancy: No

Description:

Extended Story Title block

I've made an extended version of the standard news story block for PostNuke 0.764 and 0.8
It extends the standard block with:

Select multiple topics or all topics (categories for pn0.8)
Select maximum length of the title in characters or no wrapping (with customized suffix text)
Choose addtional information displayed with every title
- Date
- Nr of Reads
- Nr of Comments (Comments and EZComments)
- short user name, long user name with a link to the user profile
Optional display of the article hometext. Wrapping is possible (with customized suffix text), but should be used carefully, since HTML markup elements might be broken.
Optional display of a New image with recent stories
The hometext display has an optional class field. If it is not empty, the hometext will be placed in an <div> with the defined class.
The list of articles has a class definition storiesext (<ul class=”storiesext”> , so you can define your own layout for the block
Display the news items in a scrolling block. Scrolling in 3 flavours (Pausing up/down, Fading (only fully functional in IE) and Marquee). Multiple blocks on one page is possible.

The version for PostNuke 0.8 is based upon RC3 and will later on be part of the News NOC project.

Demo Pn0.8RC3
Demo Pn0.764

Support Information:

Support through PostNuke forums. Forum topic

Supported Languages: eng, nld

Change Log:

Version 0.1
- displaying multiple topics
Version 0.2
-added displaying of the nr of reads, nr of comments, title wrapping
Version 1.0
-added optional displaying of the user name (short or long). The username has to be obtained (dbase queries) for every article in the block, so potential performance penalty.
-added optional display of the hometext. Optional wrapping included.
-added class definition to the list for own layout of the block
Version 1.2 (13 Jan 2008)
-added Link to the user profile when the username short/long is displayed
-added support for EZComments in the commentcount
-added optional NEW image, customizable off course
Version 1.3
- Removed <span class=PN-sub> from the li listitems
- Added mouseover msg to the wrapped title
- Removed the long user name option and put this in the mouseover msg with uname
- Added direct edit this block link when user has admin rights
- Added newsscrolling in 3 flavours (pausing up/down, fading, marquee)
Version 1.4
- Implemented part of FR#15557, display of read more link when hometext is wrapped