PopUpNews in Marquee?

[freshJet]

Is there a way to make the last 3 or 4 PopUpNews articles appear in an HTML marquee?

[Jon]

You'll need to edit popupnews_list.tpl first:

<?php
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?>

<a href="<?php echo SITE_URL ?>/index.php/PopUpNews/popupnewsitem/?itemid=<?php echo $id;?>"><?php echo $subject;?></a> |

Then Get the HTML Marquee code:

<MARQUEE></MARQUEE>

Then combine the two:

<MARQUEE>
<?php PopUpNews::PopUpNewsList(5); ?>
</MARQUEE>

Was that so difficult?

Jon

[freshJet]

Nope, very easy. But I still want it to display in my sidebar too...

[Jon]

Only Idea is to make a copy and rename it to side news or something

Jon

[simpilot]

To seperate it you can do something like this;

PopUpNews.data.class add:

       function get_latest_news()  {
       $query = "SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."news ORDER BY postdate DESC";

       return DB::get_row($query);

Add a limit to the sql call and change the return method to get more than one news story returned.

in your controller function for the page you want to view it on set the variable;

       $this->set('news', PopUpNewsData::get_latest_news());

The in your view use;

      <marquee>
           <?php
               echo '......'.strip_tags($news->subject).'......'.strip_tags($news->body);
           ?>
       </marquee>

You can remove the php strip_tags function but it will then include the html tags from the news editor which I usually find undesireable in a maquee situation.