Comments on: New Parameters for mod_placehere

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:37:55 +0000

sorry, forgot to include the website! =)

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:36:53 +0000

Hi Eike,
Thanks for a great module! I was wondering if you had any advice for linking the mod_placehere to the actual category blog layout. I have two mod_placehere modules on my front page, and have created a hidden menu linking to the category blog layout and I have also selected the “Link to category” option in the module manager. However, I keep getting a bad link when I select the title or “read more” of the module. Any suggestions?
Thank you again!!

By: Eike

Eike — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:50:14 +0000

Hi Gastão,

the function to calculate links in Joomla only work properly when the linked item/category/whatever is linked in a menu. So you would need to create a menu with a link to your category and leave it unpublished (this feels a bit hack-ish, but if I want to use as much original Joomla code as possible – and I do – then this is outside my control).

By: Gastão Brun

Gastão Brun — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:37:10 +0000

Hello Eike, great module.
I am having trouble with link to category when I insert type = contentitem and a comma delimited list of articles. It inserts a bad link.
When I use type = category it works fine.

By: Eike

Eike — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:24:49 +0000

> I hope you don’t mind me making a suggestion.

No, not at all – I don’t always have time to follow through with everything, but suggestions are always welcome.

> It would be nice if you could specify that the leading article is not
> to be trimmed.

Will do (next weekend, probably).

> a feature to exclude images

This is a bit more complicated than in the mod_contentitem (where it more or less was enough not to parse mosimage-tags), I need some clever regexp to filter out the images tags, plus this will come with a slight performance hit. I see what I can do, but the lazy solution would be to add something like

.mod_placehere img {
display:none;
}

to your style sheet.

By: Babs

Babs — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:08:12 +0000

Hi, nice module! I hope you don’t mind me making a suggestion. It would be nice if you could specify that the leading article is not to be trimmed. Also, It might be useful to incorporate a feature to exclude images (like in the mod_contentitem). Thanks for writing and sharing your mods!

By: lorenzo

lorenzo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:35:05 +0000

thanks heike… looking forward (PS sorry for double post)

By: Eike

Eike — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:00:00 +0000

Hi Lorenzo,

yes, I was lazy there.. I think I can fix this for you, but not before the next weekend.

By: lorenzo

lorenzo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:34:06 +0000

very good module!
but i’ve a problem with trim text option. since this feature doesn’t take in count html it won’t show pictures inside the content. and that’s a thing i need (i could use read-more device, i know, but i cannot for other reasons).
thanks very much

By: Minh

Minh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:48:12 +0000

Hi,
sorry let me be more clear..

Based on what category (catid) you are viewing, the module load in a particular article (id-article id), Not load in content from a category or section.

I think I have the hack working working…