By mikeuk2000 on

I've been playing about with the articles module and really want to add a piece of text just below the main title to introduce the page and write a little about the articles on there.

Does anyone know where in the ".module" file I could do this?

thanks

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drupalnesia commented

use excerpt.module

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mikeuk2000 commented

I don't think this is what I'm looking for.

I want to add text to the main page which lists the articles (this is not a user generated node).

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drupalnesia commented

I think u need a new content type. Use CCK modules to create new content type "myarticle" with at least 3 fields:
- title
- body
- description (this is what u need).

Now, to enable the "description" around the title you have 2 options:
- use contemplate module (this the easy way)
- copy node.tpl.php to node-myarticle.tpl.php and edit its code (this is highly recomended way)

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mikeuk2000 commented

Sorry mate, this is not what I want.

The article module makes a page which lists the latest articles and a list of categories for each article type. It is on this automatically generated page which I want to add a piece of intro text to at the top (just before the latest articles are displayed). I need this text to be independent of the articles listed on the page so should not form part of a description for any article.

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drupalnesia commented

So, what is in the article.module that not meet your requirement?