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#1 2009-01-13 10:05:50
- mfos
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News Tickers that work in TXP
Hi,
I would like to incorporate a News Ticker that pulls a certain word count from an article and displays it on a page. Very similar to the one on the BBC news site. Is there a plugin, JS or flash/XML that could do this for me and work well in TXP.
Any advice would be great.
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
Can you show an example of the kind of news ticker you mean?
As far as I remember, Manfre’s plugin mem_filter allows you to obtain the wordcount of an article.
You can then use jquery’s jquery.newsticker or LiScroll newstickers with a normal unordered list output using the normal txp:article_custom.
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#3 2009-01-15 18:13:23
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
Hi,
I’m using the jquery plugin and I have it working to an extent but can’t understand how to out the titles of the the 4 most recent news titles. Can you help?
I have this in one of my pages:
<txp:article_custom limit=“1” form=“news_ticker” pgonly=“0” section=“news” sort=“Posted asc” status=“4” />
and then the form “news_ticker” which contains:
<ul id=“news” class=“newsticker”>
<li>This the first news article</li>
<li>This the second news article</li>
<li>This the third news article</li>
<li>This the forth news article</li>
</ul>
(I’ve removed JS code as its not important for this explanation)
What should I be putting between the >li> tags to show the titles of news articles which can then be clicked on?
Apparently I have to declare a <li> for each bit of news to show on the ticker, so I have 4 to show the 4 most recent.
Any help would be great.
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Mike
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
This should do it and doesn’t require a form since you’re only outputting the title.
<ul id="news" class="newsticker">
<txp:article limit="4" section="news" sort="Posted asc" status="4" break="">
<li><txp:title /></li>
</txp:article>
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#5 2009-01-16 10:07:23
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
Thats great. Works a treat.
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#6 2009-01-16 13:33:33
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
Hi,
Seem to have a slight problem.
The news title that fades in is randomly displaying on the next line. Sometimes it does it sometimes it doesn’t. A bit annoying.
The first news title to appear is always on the correct line but the ones that fade in after that sometimes appear on the next line.
I have even made efforts to force the containing divs to a certain height but this has no effect.
You can see the issue here:
http://www.lightbulb-moment.com/whitley/test
The problem appears to happen in Safari 3.x. You may need to refresh a few times to get it to drop down a line.
On IE the ‘News’ text drops a pixel??
Is there anything I can do to stop this from happening?
Any help would be cool.
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Mike
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
Looks ok in IE but I don’t have Safari. I really like that ticker.
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#8 2009-01-16 16:49:48
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Re: News Tickers that work in TXP
I swapped it out for a better one which is what you can see.
You can check it out here:
http://www.makemineatriple.com/2007/10/bbcnewsticker/
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