Last updated June 20, 2009. Created by pwolanin on March 22, 2006.
Edited by bryan kennedy, Heine, sepeck, BlackSash. Log in to edit this page.
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Specifically, the snippet
- does not check output, potentially allowing Cross Site Scripting attackso (XSS, see How to handle text in a secure fashion for more information).
You may be interested in the functions node_view and/or check_markup.
The following code will generate a list of nodes, using the titles as links and showing a custom-length teaser (can be either shorter or longer than the drupal default).
<?php
/* Variables here include:
// $list_length:
// the amount of nodes shown on one page
// $tid:
// the number of the taxonomy category you want to display the nodes of
// $teaser_length:
// the _minimum_ length of the teaser. Specify a number for a custom teaser length.
*/
$list_length = 5;
$tid = 11;
$teaser_length = 150;
$query = "SELECT n.nid" .
" FROM {node} AS n" .
" LEFT JOIN {term_node} AS tn ON n.nid = tn.nid" .
" WHERE n.status = 1" .
" AND tn.tid = $tid" .
" ORDER BY n.nid DESC";
$result = pager_query($query, $list_length);
$output = "<div id='node-list'><ul>";
while ($item = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$node = node_load($item->nid);
$output .= '<li><h4>' . l($node->title, "node/" . $node->nid) .
'</h4><p>' . node_teaser($node->teaser, $teaser_length) . '</p></li>';
}
$output .= "</ul></div>";
print $output;
print theme('pager', $list_length, 0, 0);
?>an alternate method is:
<?php
/* Variables here include:
// $list_length:
// the amount of nodes shown on one page
// $tid:
// the number of the taxonomy category you want to display the nodes of
// $teaser_length:
// the _minimum_ length of the teaser. Specify a number for a custom teaser length.
*/
$list_length = 5;
$tid = "1";
$teaser_length = 150;
$query = "SELECT tn.tid, n.nid" .
" FROM {node} AS n" .
" LEFT JOIN {term_node} AS tn ON n.nid = tn.nid" .
" WHERE n.status = 1" .
" AND tn.tid IN ($tid)" .
" ORDER BY n.nid DESC";
$result = pager_query($query, $list_length);
$output = "<div id='node-list'><ul>";
while ($item = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$aNode['nid'] = $item->nid;
$node = node_load($aNode);
$output .= '<li><h4>' . l($node->title, "node/" . $node->nid) .
'</h4><p>' . node_teaser($node->teaser, $teaser_length) . '</p></li>';
}
$output .= "</ul></div>";
if (db_num_rows($result) < $list_length)
$list_length = db_num_rows($result);
print $output;
print theme('pager', $list_length);
?>
Comments
Some Simple Aalternatives
Some Simple alternatives can be done with views
http://drupal.org/node/128085#comment-3452522