Random and Keyword Article Lists - Newscoop Support Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Lee M. Childress

When listing articles, is there a way to:

(1) Produce a list of article titles in random order; and

(2) Produce a list of article titles based on the keywords of the current article?

Thanks for your help!

Mugur Rus

1. Not directly from Campsite template language; you could use smarty though
and PHP to extract a random list of articles

2. Yes
See http://en.flossmanuals.net/CampSite/Lists , list of articles

{{ list_articles constraints="keyword your_keyword" }}

Mugur

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Lee M. Childress <
campsite-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

> When listing articles, is there a way to:
>
> (1) Produce a list of article titles in random order; and
>
> (2) Produce a list of article titles based on the keywords of the current
> article?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>

Douglas Arellanes

Hi Lee,

I was poking around the Smarty documentation and came across this page, which might be a good place to start:

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/plugins.functions.php

Mugur, here's my own newbie question: If you need to create the array and randomization in PHP, what's the best practice for it? Should the PHP be in its own document separate from the template file, or can the PHP be included inside the template itself?

doug

Lee M. Childress

What if I have several keywords? I would like to take the comma separated list of keywords from the current article and find articles with similar keywords.

Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:04:54 +0200
To: leemchildress@hotmail.com
Subject: [campsite-support] Random and Keyword Article Lists
From: campsite-support@lists.sourcefabric.org

Sourcefabric Community Platform

1. Not directly from Campsite template language; you could use smarty though

and PHP to extract a random list of articles

2. Yes

See http://en.flossmanuals.net/CampSite/Lists , list of articles

{{ list_articles constraints="keyword your_keyword" }}

Mugur

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Lee M. Childress <

campsite-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

> When listing articles, is there a way to:

>

> (1) Produce a list of article titles in random order; and

>

> (2) Produce a list of article titles based on the keywords of the current

> article?

>

> Thanks for your help!

>

Lee M. Childress

Thanks so much for the input. I don't know why I never thought about randomizing an array.
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 20:37:18 +0200
To: leemchildress@hotmail.com
Subject: [campsite-support] Re: Random and Keyword Article Lists
From: campsite-support@lists.sourcefabric.org

Sourcefabric Community Platform

Hi Lee,

I was poking around the Smarty documentation and came across this page, which might be a good place to start:

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/plugins.functions.php

Mugur, here's my own newbie question: If you need to create the array and randomization in PHP, what's the best practice for it? Should the PHP be in its own document separate from the template file, or can the PHP be included inside the template itself?

doug

Mugur Rus

Best is to write a Smarty plugin and wrap it in a Campsite plugin. See:

http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/plugins.php
http://trac.campware.org/campsite/wiki/31PluginAPI

We also need volunteers to update and copy the Campsite plugin description
to the manual where it belongs.

Mugur

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Douglas Arellanes <
campsite-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> I was poking around the Smarty documentation and came across this page,
> which might be a good place to start:
>
> http://www.smarty.net/manual/en/plugins.functions.php
>
> Mugur, here's my own newbie question: If you need to create the array and
> randomization in PHP, what's the best practice for it? Should the PHP be in
> its own document separate from the template file, or can the PHP be included
> inside the template itself?
>
>
> doug
>

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