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LatestNews vs. Article Holder


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sd0wn

Community Member, 2 Posts

22 July 2008 at 5:12am

Is there anyway to limit the amount of characters returned for the $Content?

I like how the News displays on the article holder page, but for sidebar (latest news) on the homepage, I dont want to display so much. Maybe 120 characters max.

Is this possible?

Page.php:

function LatestNewsItems($num = 3) 
{
	$news = DataObject::get_one("ArticleHolder");
	return ($news) ? DataObject::get("ArticlePage", "ParentID = $news->ID", "Date DESC", "", $num) : false;
}

LatestNews.ss

<% control LatestNewsItems %>
<p>$Content</p>
<% if FirstLast != last %><div class="hr">&nbsp;</div><% end_if %>
<% end_control %>

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Anatol

126 Posts

22 July 2008 at 11:48am

Edited: 22/07/2008 11:49am

Hi,

try this page: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=text&s=limitcharacters

That's probably what you are looking for. You can limit the number of characters, or the number of words, display the first paragraph only, etc...

Just add e.g.

$Content.LimitCharacters(120)

You can also change the default characters that are displayed at the end if the text exceeds the maximum length (default is '...'). See here: http://api.silverstripe.com/sapphire/model/Text.html#methodLimitCharacters

Cheers!
Anatol

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BLU42 Media

Community Member, 71 Posts

22 July 2008 at 11:50am

You sure can... easily too! There are some cool functions built right into the framework that you can use in your ss template. Just switch out $Content with one of these:

$Content.FirstParagraph
$Content.FirstSentence

Check out http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=htmltext for more details.

Hope that helps!