Joomla Custom Module

nvanprooyen

nvanprooyen

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Not sure if there are any of you that actively develop in Joomla, but figured I'd start here. I'm working on a site that has a recent articles module. I've looked at mod_latestnews and several other modules, but haven't found one that outputs in the format I want it to yet. Here's a screen shot of what I want it to look like:

recent_articles.jpg


I'm not sure if there is a the_excerpt function like in Wordpress, but I figure I can use substr() or something to get that part and add a "..." on the end. Basically, I want to output the 4 most article titles and an excerpt in a <ul>. Any ideas about the best way to go about this?
 


There's 2 modules that appear to do this, i know because i had a similar issue. I just wanted several sections published within module positions, that only showed x articles from a certain section.

The best was called News Show GK3 by Gavick Pro i believe, the other i forget, because it had the same features but was binned because it had bugs.

I don't know how familiar you are with Joomla, but just upload the module mentioned, choose position, then style it as per your template (using module class suffix) and you can get it looking like you want.

PM me if you need any help, because i'd happily go in and could probably do this for you (template permitting) in a few minutes.
 
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Thanks for the News Show plugin man. Looks like it's gonna work. All the control appears to be there, just a matter of tweaking the CSS to get it to display how I want it to. Looks like I dodged the custom module creation bullet yet again. +rep
 
nvanprooyen said:
Thanks for the News Show plugin man. Looks like it's gonna work. All the control appears to be there, just a matter of tweaking the CSS to get it to display how I want it to. Looks like I dodged the custom module creation bullet yet again. +rep
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Glad you got it running!
 
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