[Trick] News/Articles Titles linked to the articles.

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 2:04 am

I was reading these forums tonight and saw THIS thread where one person had an idea about linking the Title of the article to the whole article's page.

Few people posted thier tricks and it looked like none of them were working for 6.5 and above.

I took one of those old tips and sorta ported to make it work with 6.5 and above ( I am using 6.9)

Here is goes.

modules/News/index.php:
Look for:

Code:

if ($catid != 0) {
 $sql3 = "SELECT title FROM ".$prefix."_stories_cat WHERE catid='$catid'";
 $result3 = $db->sql_query($sql3);
 $row3 = $db->sql_fetchrow($result3);
 $title1 = $row3[title];
 $title = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>: $title";
 $morelink .= " | <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>";
}

And change it to:

Code:

if ($catid != 0) {
 $sql3 = "SELECT title FROM ".$prefix."_stories_cat WHERE catid='$catid'";
 $result3 = $db->sql_query($sql3);
 $row3 = $db->sql_fetchrow($result3);
 $title1 = $row3[title];
 $title = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>: $story_link $title</a>";
 $morelink .= " | <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>";
} else {
$title ="$story_link $title</a>";
}

That is it!

You can see it working here:
http://www.chicagobase.com
All fixes and patches are applied.

I am such a thick head, took me more than 2 hours to figure this out.

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:09 am

anybody want to tackle the update for this hack for nuke 7 and up?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:25 am

You might be shocked to find this out my friend that the code it has not changed since 6.5 Very Happy

When I posted this message, I actually checked it on 7.4 before hit the "Submit" button.

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:30 am

Code from 7.4

Code:

if ($catid != 0) {
 $row3 = $db->sql_fetchrow($db->sql_query("SELECT title FROM ".$prefix."_stories_cat WHERE catid='$catid'"));
 $title1 = stripslashes(check_html($row3['title'], "nohtml"));
 $title = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>: $title";
 $morelink .= " | <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>";
}

Change it too:

Code:

if ($catid != 0) {
 $row3 = $db->sql_fetchrow($db->sql_query("SELECT title FROM ".$prefix."_stories_cat WHERE catid='$catid'"));
 $title1 = stripslashes(check_html($row3['title'], "nohtml"));
 $title = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>: $title";
 $morelink .= " | <a href=\"modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=$catid\">$title1</a>";
} else {
$title ="$story_link $title</a>";
}

You will see this code if you have already applied ChatServ's fixes 2.5.

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:20 am

oops, had an extra space in the search string when I was trying to find the code in Dreamweaver... hate it when that happens. But I've got the code applied now and am eating my humble pie.

Support Mod Joined: Mar 19, 2003 Posts: 308

I am looking at that code and visited the website but I don' t notice any difference Confused

Can somebody help me sorting this out?

Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:30 pm

My site is currently under a change of code stage. Please see http://www.controlbooth.com/ for an example.