[geeklog-users] topics, blocks and newsfeeds

[Vincent Furia]

If you want a page (section) dedicated to news feeds your best best would
be to use the staticpages version 1.2 which supports php pages (or wait
for the next geeklog release which will come with a new staticpages
pre-installed).  

Another option is to simply write your own geeklog page, call it
'news.php' or some such and start from scratch that way (this is how I
would probably do it).  This'll require just a bit more work and
understanding of geeklog though.

Someone might have a staticpage or hack to make a news page already.  I
haven't seen one but you might want to search geeklog.net and/or
squatty.com for possibilities.

If you have programming experience the best way to learn php is to dive
in, by looking at some of the code (geeklog's code works for this).  You
can use the php manual found on php.net to help.

You can find some decent tutorials online if you're starting from scratch
or preferred more structured instruction.  I like the webmonkey tutorials
because they are very clean, but you may like something else.  Try a
google search for 'php tutorial' or the webmonkey php site at:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/.

There are also lots of decent books out there.  If you're going to get
just one I'd recommend getting a PHP/MySQL book.  Take a look at what's
available at your nearest book store (browse before you buy...).

Good Luck,
Vinny

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, scroff wrote:

> Thanks Vinny, it does help. I guess tho what I'm looking for would be having
> the newsfeeds as storys. Maybe I need to do this with a static page?
> I'd like to have three or four different feeds on a page by themselves. I
> did what you suggested, and the page didn't show up and now I know it's
> because there was no story. But I'd like the feed to act as the story so
> people can go to the page and just see the news feeds.
> I hope this makes sense and thanks for your help.
> On another subject. Does anyone know where a newb can start learning php?
> I've used html and am familiar with javascript, so where can I start
> learning php?
> Thanks again
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vincent Furia" <vmf at abtech.org>
> To: <geeklog-users at lists.geeklog.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [geeklog-users] topics, blocks and newsfeeds
> 
> 
> > I think this is what you're asking, let me know if I'm way off:
> >
> > You're created a topic and you would like multiple news feeds to appear in
> > blocks when users go to that topic?  This is possible, and in fact pretty
> > easy to do.
> >
> > Create the topic (as you already have).  Create the portal blocks with
> > Topic set to your new topic, type = portal and enabled checked.  Fill out
> > the other options as desired and fill in the portal block information.
> >
> > Make sure you have at least one story in the topic you created (otherwise
> > you will not be able to see the topic page).  Go to the topic page.
> > You'll probably have to refresh the page once before the newsfeeds show up
> > because of how geeklog processes portal blocks.
> >
> > You should see all the portal blocks you made after the load of the topic
> > page.
> >
> > I hope this helps,
> > Vinny
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, scroff wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >        Ok, here's what I'm trying to do. I made a new topic, "News
> > > Feeds". Then I made a new portal block 'In These Times' (which is a
> > > newsfeed), then in the 'Topic' dropdown menu in the block editor chose
> > > "News Feeds", thinking it would show up when people clicked 'Newsfeeds'
> > > in the 'Sections' block. It didn't show up anywhere. Is it that I can't
> > > put a block in a block like that? The newsfeed works when it's in it's
> > > own block, but I kinda wanted to have more than one newsfeed under the
> > > topic Newsfeeds.
> > >       Thanks for your feedback and help.
> > >       George
> > >       learning slow and not ready for primetime site www.markunas.org
> > >
> >
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