CCK, views..... and contemplate (teasers) ?

By Robardi56 on 12 Aug 2006 at 12:54 UTC

Hi,
is contemplate the best way to control cck teasers and presentation ? Or can it be achieved in another way ?

Cordially,
Brakkar

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did yoı try excerp module?

ideviate commented 12 August 2006 at 13:31

did yoı try excerp module? if i got correctly it may help. http://drupal.org/project/excerpt

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what do you want to

stanbroughl commented 12 August 2006 at 15:51

what do you want to configure in the teasers? i find contemplate pretty good - i have a php script that allows me to set the exact teaser character length for each one, and you can theme it all you want

Would you mind sharing your teaser script for contemplate?

lias commented 19 September 2006 at 20:59

Thanks.
Lsabug

Sorry its taken a while to

stanbroughl commented 19 September 2006 at 21:21

Sorry its taken a while to track it down again - i've got files everywhere!

Its not mine, i'm afraid i can't remember where i found it on drupal but it's out there somewhere:

<?php print $teaser = substr($field_story_text[0]['value'], 0, 300) ?><a href="<?php print $path ?>">...readmore</a></div>

VARIABLE_FIELD = the variable you want to trim
0 = represents what character to start counting from
300 = represents the number of characters to trim to

I also add ...readmore with a link to the page path to illustrate the trimming but thats not required

Thanks stanbroughl for responding...

lias commented 22 September 2006 at 18:04

I'll try it out.

lsabug

Where...

notarealperson commented 29 September 2006 at 16:53

Where do you insert this code? Into the teaser template? Because when I do, the readmore link only point to the front page where the teaser resides, rather than the page where the story is.

There's a bug, see here for

colm_iqc commented 9 October 2006 at 14:20

There's a bug, see here for the error report:
http://drupal.org/node/87223

I used this instead, for the 'read more' link

schwa commented 7 January 2007 at 21:02

This will take you to the relevant node page rather than to front page. Also added the class of "more-link", which will style it like all other 'read more' links on your site.

<span class="more-link"><?php print l('... more', 'node/'.$nid, array('title' => 'Read more on this article')); ?></span>

Alter the '... more' to read 'read more' or whatever alternate text you desire.

i've tried

seakayjay commented 18 January 2007 at 02:48

I've tried using the php snippet provided and paste it to the "Teaser Template" of Contemplate. That's really work.

However, the trimming style is not what i'm looking for because it doesn't respect the "words" that's in the field.

For example, when the character to be trimmed is set to 300, the characters that reach exactly on 300 will be trimmed despite the completion of the word (i.e. world --> worl). Can we make it in such a way where the trimming process will respect the final word, let it finish the word before trimming it.

I hope I've made it clear on what I'm looking for. Any guide or help will be appreciated.

Thanks

When I made my custom

jaks1970 commented 24 January 2007 at 00:20

When I made my custom content type I included a description text field. That made it easy to separate as a teaser from the main content. I simply added the second code snippet from this thread to the description field div and removed the main content field from my teaser template. Presto I had a great teaser with a read more link. Obviously I set the description field to 300 characters in the settings for that field.

<span class="more-link"><?php print l('... more', 'node/'.$nid, array('title' => 'Read more on this article')); ?></span>

Hope that helps you.

BTW: If you want to see my teaser goto http://www.sexstoriesexchange.com/stories/straight Adult content is hidden to unregistered users but I made it so that only the teasers are shown so don't worry about seeing anything you don't want to see.

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