Daily block
| Project: | Daily |
| Version: | 6.x-1.1 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
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Ok I've been struggling with how to accomplish this using views so I finally resorted to a feature request. Maybe someone can point me in a direction I'm not seeing.
What I want is a block that will show the teaser of the daily content.
For my purposes what I am trying to do is to embed a daily content into a widget using the embed widgets module. Since the content in my daily content is a video this makes for a pretty big widget.
I've tried playing around with views to create a block but of course all I end up with is a block that shows the teaser of the container itself, not the content that is displayed daily.
I hope I'm making sense here.
So anyway my thinking is that if the daily module also put out a block showing the teaser of the daily content then things such as this could be accomplished.
Or maybe there's a way that I am not seeing.
Thanks for any input.
Phil
#1
You could try this (untested) code (adding it to daily.module):
<?phpfunction daily_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
switch ($op) {
case 'list':
$blocks[0]['info'] = t('Daily content');
return $blocks;
case 'view':
$tid = 34; // enter the tid of your daily vocabulary here
$nr = 0; /* Use -1 for the last item, -2 for the last-but-one item, etc; use 1 for the first item, 2 for the second item, etc; use 0 for a random item refreshed once a day */
$daily_node = _daily_node_by_tid($tid, $nr);
if(is_object($daily_node)) { $daily_node = node_view(_daily_node_by_tid($tid, $nr), $teaser, FALSE); }
$block['subject'] = t('Daily content');
$block['content'] = $daily_node;
return $block;
}
}
?>
#2
I'll give it a shot and report back soon
Phil