Announcements

[RSprinkel]

I have seen several sites with just the links to the announcements on an announcement page with the date and title but not the full announcements.

 

I would like to know how this is done as I have searched and cannot find the way to do this.

 

Thanks much in advance,

 

Ron S.

[Cody Salter]

You can just edit the template for it.

[RSprinkel]

Thanks Much YukonMaster.

 

Ok I did that and worked fine, however when I click on the title of the Announcement nothing happens. Not sure how to code this to get it to work.

 

Sorry for the lack of knowledge on this type of file.

 

Ron S.

[robbo]

You have to have version 3.5 as this brings in the backend coding for doing this. Then it's the "announcements.tpl" and "viewannouncements.tpl" to edit the look of them (if you want to)

[RSprinkel]

Yup running 3.5 currently.

 

This is what I did in the announcements.tpl file. I moved the date above the Title and removed this line all together: {$announcement.text|truncate:200:"..."}.

 

In the viewannouncements.tpl I moved the date above the title and removed this line:<p>{$text}</p>

 

All looks good, when I click on any of the linked titles still nothing happens. Again I am not to savvy when working with this sort of stuff, LOL. Sorry.

 

Ron S.

[RSprinkel]

Do I need to delete the files in the templates_c folder?

[robbo]

Has your title got link tags around it?

<a href="{$smarty.server.PHP_SELF}?id={$announcement.id}">{$announcement.title}</a>

I'm pretty sure thats what the announcement.tpl has as default (I've changed mine).

 

Deleting the files in templates_c won't do anything bad, so might as well give it a try.

[RSprinkel]

Yes mine has the tags around it and every link I put the cursor on it shows this at the bottom:

 

../../announcements.php?id=

 

So it isn't recognizing the id of each of the announcements for some reason.

 

Ron S.

[Si]

Yup running 3.5 currently.

 

This is what I did in the announcements.tpl file. I moved the date above the Title and removed this line all together: {$announcement.text|truncate:200:"..."}.

 

If you don't want the 200 characters of text, don't remove that line, change the truncate:200 to truncate:000

 

Try that.

 

Si

[RSprinkel]

Well that still didn't work. Well it did as far as only the link showing, but it isn't pointing to any id's

 

http://www.royal-hosting.net/orders/announcements.php

[Si]

Well that still didn't work. Well it did as far as only the link showing, but it isn't pointing to any id's

 

http://www.royal-hosting.net/orders/announcements.php

 

Looks like your code is missing the announcement:id

 

Try this in your announcements.tpl file.

 

 

{foreach key=num item=announcement from=$announcements}
<div align="left">
 <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1">
   <tr>
     <td width="100%"><strong><a href="{$smarty.server.PHP_SELF}?id={$announcement.id}">{$announcement.title}</a></strong><br />
{$announcement.text|truncate:00:"..."}
<strong>{$announcement.date}</strong></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="100%" align="center">
       <img border="0" src="clients/images/horizontal_line.gif" width="400" height="6"></td>
     </tr>
   </table>
 </div>
<p>{foreachelse} </p>
<p align="center"><strong>{$LANG.announcementsnone}</strong></p>
{/foreach} <br>
 <p align="center"><img src="images/clientarea/rssfeed.gif" align="middle" alt="" /> <a href="announcements.xml">{$LANG.announcementsrss}</a></p>

 

Si

[RSprinkel]

Hi SI,

 

Thanks for the reply. Well I added your code into my announcements.tpl and still getting the same thing. It is not picking up the Announcement ID. I even did a test Announcement and still nothing. I don't know what is going on.

 

Again thanks for the help.

 

Ron S.

[RSprinkel]

Ok I finally got it to work, DUMMY ME forgot that I was using the 3.4 vers and not the current one. So after upgrading it to 3.5 it all works now.

 

Thanks all for your help and I apologize for my newbie ways.

 

 

Ron S.

[BionHostStan]

how do I have some of the announcement text appear, like in http://demo.whmcs.com/announcements.php?

Actually, how do I get that format?

[JasonO]

The announcements template file will let you play around with it.