Ability to select nodes to be featured in the slider

Hi,
I've have similar problem with the 6.x version (trying to have a more controllable selection of nodes), and I solved it modifying the code a bit. I made content_slider dependent on nodequeue. Im attaching the code for the 6.x version. If you need to backport it to 5.x you can easily replicate it from the attached code.

Hope it is useful and if possible, the following suggestion goes to the developers (Ebizon Technologies), please try to take my patch, improve it and make your very nice module dependent on nodequeue for an easier and more controllable selection of nodes.

Thanks,

Samir.
www.sumaqperu.com

Thanks Samir and Manuj for the heads up. I have taken up note for this patch and would make it an optional dependency as manuj_78 has suggested.

Btw, I am working on this modules integration with Views. Would try to release it soon.

Thanks a lot,
Sudeep

To get this working with views would be OUTSTANDING :)

interesting...

hi there! I'm a total newb when it comes to patches... what would I need to do to get your patch working in 5.x? This is exactly what is currently making this module unsuitable for my site and I really want to use it.

thanks for any hints!

I so can't easily replicate it from the attached code, all i've managed to do is receive a load of page errors when I try lol.

Just for you to see the site where I actually applied this patch:

Tours de Semana Santa en Peru

The content slider actually takes the information of the different nodes (tours) that I selected and puts them there.

Hope it is useful.

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Travel to Peru

Hi,

thanks folks for good work. I still have my difficulty to integrate this module with Views. Any one can advise?

The author mentioned two references:

Example Sites using Content Slider:
1) Great looking site: www.iGadgets.be
2) Another cool looking one: www.Jamrie.com

Anyone has idea how the look of Jemrie site's effect can be created? Thanks alot for any information!

Jamrie.com use JoomlaWorks "Frontpage Slideshow

http://drupal.org/project/fpss

If you r using Drupal 6 you may look at http://drupal.org/project/ddblock

Patch works as advertised
nodequeue controls the nodes displayed for the 3rd block

+1 to be committed

Can post or send me the entire updated module file (content_slider.module) with the patch added? I tried adding the patch to the original and can't get it to work - I keep getting error messages.

Thanks,
Jeff

Learning to apply patches is a very handy tool in drupal
http://drupal.org/patch/apply

If you are on windows, I am using the utility from GNUwin and its very simple
http://drupal.org/node/99903

anyway here is the patched module file
(erase the .txt from the filename)

Thanks much for the related links and the file. It's very much appreciated.

hi

this module and patch are great but i've some trouble to display and assign content...whats the way to do ?

because i've assign nodequeue id to slider 3, and i go to the nodequeue view but nothing displayed...

little help please.

thx

It seems that I´m a bit late to insert some thought here (is the patch already commited?), but maybe a good alternative could be to use flag...?

Hi,
Just go to content link. all node will appear. unpublish the nodes of you do not want to see in slider.