[geeklog-users] Styling Text Inside Blocks (and copyright year)

[geeklog-users-admin at lists.geeklog.net]

A user wanted lines between every line in their blocks. (You can see the result at http://www.sandiego.edu/ins/insites/)

Geeklog currently takes the lines in a block and puts a <br /> between them (using nl2br). I changed lib-common.php from:

                if( substr( $blockcontent, 0, 1 ) != '<' )
                {
                    $blockcontent = nl2br( $blockcontent );
                }

to:

                if( substr( $blockcontent, 0, 1 ) != '<' )
                {
                        $blocklines = explode("\n", $blockcontent);
                        $blockclass = '<p class="blocklines">';
                        $blockcontent = $blockclass . implode("</p>$blockclass", $blocklines) . '</p>';
                }

which allows controlling the appearance of such text via the appropriate style.css.

Incidentally, the copyright year is hard-coded into lib-common.php. Shouldn't it at least be in config.php, as, perhaps, $_CONF['site_copyright']? (It might make even more sense to use the year from the most recent displayed article.)

Jerry
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http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/
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