By ravipjoshi on

Hey folks,

I'm not really able to write modules myself, but I could really do with a module which creates news clips.

I've learned enough to know that the concept is feasible and probably can be written really quickly, so I would appreciate if anyone can dish this out.

newsclip.module: Description

Pretty much the standard 'story.module' but with two extra fields which means that the clips would have to have their own DB entry.

extra field 1: Link to original article
extra field 2: Link to article's image (possibly an optional upload field?)

Upon creation of a newsclip, the readout will be the body, with a link to the original article at the top, and the image displayed within the body somewhere

... any takers?

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Comments

Tobias Maier’s picture

Tobias Maier commented

ever tried flexinode or cck (content construction kit)?
with them you can build your own content types easily

ravipjoshi’s picture

ravipjoshi commented

thanks! That worked somewhat

fairworld.info

But now I have to work out the small details, like making it spit out into a specific format... such as the link needs to be hyperlinked and the author and source should be on the same line.

Any thoughts?

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If you are using a phptemplate theme your can template just the flexinode type you can created. You can learn how at http://drupal.org/node/31646.

ravipjoshi’s picture

ravipjoshi commented

arrrgg, I'm using the xtemplate!

That sucks because I was trying to decide which one would have been better... I wonder if there is any way to convert xtemplates to phptemplate?