Breaking News

[cHeGa]

As this is news script primarily,it should be nice to see this addon.
Breaking news would be on top of the site red with flashing text or something like that.

[bobster65]

I am all for adding the capability into the Admin CP for Admins to create more "status" for use throughout the system. I create my own manually as I know how, but for novice users this can get a bit tricky for them. Having the ability to create a new status (like Breaking News) and then just grabbing the status ID and making a Article Box with the status search for the new ID only would be pretty easy for most Admins.

[boccio]

I hear ya...

[kreativostudio]

I hear ya too! very very well!

[columbusman]

Finally after some playing, and time, I got it in an OK position for me.

Here is the code for the box to place in your header... the CSS is coded for a dark theme, meaning it shows up with white lettering on a dark background.



When you add the tag you select it will show up, when you delete the tag it will disappear. I placed this code in my HEADER.TPL so it would show across all pages.

The #460 in the code below is the "tag" that corresponds to the box, you will need to create your tag in the category option and note the number it is assigned by the system.

The "Topic_id" is the section the tag is called from, whereas the system is topic_id "1" and general tags are topic_id "0"

	<vte:box module="box_article_list">
		<vte:params>
            <vte:param name="search_topic_id" value="0" />
            <vte:param name="search_all_tag_ids" value="460" />
            <vte:param name="search_limit" value="1" />
            <vte:param name="search_sort_by" value="order_num" />
            <vte:param name="search_order" value="descending" />
            <vte:param name="cache" value="1" />
            <vte:param name="add_to_printed" value="true" />
            <vte:param name="exclude_printed" value="true" />
		</vte:params>
			<vte:template>
							<vte:foreach item = "article" from = "{article_list}">
                <vte:include file="{VIVVO_TEMPLATE_DIR}summary/breaking.tpl" />
            </vte:foreach>
            </vte:template>
</vte:box>

Here is the code to place in the summary folder... I named my Breaking.tpl

<vte:template>
	<div class="short">
		<div class="short_holder">
			<span class="ticker_category" style="color:red; font:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size:18px">BREAKING NEWS:</span><span class="ticker_category" style="font-size:17px; font:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color:#FFF;"><vte:value select="{article.get_title}" /> - <vte:value select="{article.get_summary|40}" /> <vte:if test="{article.body}">...</vte:if> <a href="{article.get_href}"> <vte:value select="{LNG_FULL_STORY}" /></a></span>

		</div>
	</div>
</vte:template>

I created a hidden category that I can keep my breaking news in, and when I don't want it to show at top, I just remove the "breaking news" tag, just as you would do with the headlines tag for articles in the headlines on homepage.

Enjoy... Rep points... please

[Timother]

i couldnt understand what type of breaking news it is.... can i know the breaking news.... if you are saying about putting the breaking news on the top of the page it will be really good idea