Quick and Clean CCK teasers Via PHPtemplate
Mon, 2006-06-05 03:55 — Nick Lewis
If you are like me, you've been pulling your hair out trying to make teasers work in CCK. Well, as it so happens, I figured out a crazy simple phptemplate method of making CCK body fields act like any other node's body. Observe:
Template.php
<?phpfunction _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) {global $user; switch ($hook) { case 'node': if ($vars['field_body'][0]['value']) { /* Believe it or not, all you have to do is pass the field through the existing node.module function node_teaser()! */ $vars['cck_teaser'] = node_teaser($vars['field_body'][0]['value'], $format = NULL); } break; } return $vars;}?>
Drop this in the appropriate node.tpl.php file:
<div class="content"> <?php //for teasersif ($page == 0) { print $cck_teaser;} //for fullpageselse { print $node->field_body[0]['value'];?>} ?></div>
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My content type story have
My content type story have just 'body' field. And there are no tag. So I got empty teaser. What I need to do in this case?
error
There is a mistake in your node-template code:
<?php //for teasersif ($page == 0) {
print $cck_teaser;
}
//for fullpages
else {
print $node->field_body[0]['value'];<em><strong>
?>
}
?>
..you ended php before the curly bracket.
JR
non-programmer question
Read more via Excerpt Module
you made my day!
<?php print node_teaser($node->field_description[0]['view']); ?>...this addition to template.php seamlessly restores the 'read more' link in existing themes. Thanks for the sanity.Apply filters
Thanks for your tip, this as helped me a lot! There is some things that can be inproved:
The teaser should take care of filters that may be enabled for the field used for teaser. In my case, inline images where not rendered.
It's up to you guys, but usualy the "read more" link is only diplayed if teaser if different of the node body..
here are the snippet I use (my CCK node name is "content-album" and my body field is "field_corps"):
<?phpfunction _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) { switch ($hook) { case 'node': // Create CCK teasers hack if ($vars['page'] == 0) { switch ($vars['node']->type) { case 'content-album': /* Believe it or not, all you have to do is pass the field through the existing node.module function node_teaser()! */ $vars['cck_teaser'] = node_teaser($vars['field_corps'][0]['value']); if ($vars['cck_teaser'] != $vars['field_corps'][0]['value']){ $vars['links'] .= ($vars['links'] ? ' | ' : '') . l(t('Read the rest of this posting.'), 'node/'.$vars['node']->nid); } break; } } break; } return $vars;}?>and in my template:<?php//for teasers if ($page == 0) { print check_markup($cck_teaser, $field_corps[0]['format']); }?>This might be simpler, no
<?phpfunction _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars) { switch ($hook) { case 'node': // Create CCK teasers hack if ($vars['page'] == 0) { switch ($vars['node']->type) { case 'content-case_study': case 'content-white_paper': /* Believe it or not, all you have to do is pass the field through the existing node.module function node_teaser()! */ $vars['content'] = node_teaser($vars['field_description'][0]['value']); $vars['links'] .= ($vars['links'] ? ' | ' : '') . l('Read more...', 'node/'.$vars['node']->nid); break; } } break; } return $vars;}?>So where do I put this code?
Is this for the modules/cck/theme/template.php file?
No, it will go in
No, it will go in themes/[the name of your theme
]/template.php file
Nice and clean! It could
if (substr($vars['node']->type, 0, 8) == 'content-')instead of cases.That is in fact simpler. I
N00b question
I think field_body is the
I think field_body is the standard variable in CCK for the body. I might be wrong though. I tell you what, slap this PHP snippet into your node.tpl.php file and find out which field_(what you named the fields) their are:
<pre>
<?php print_r(get_object_vars($node));?>
</pre>
Sorry for the vague response... running on empty right now...
Nice. I had been fighting
if ($teaser) { print $cck_teaser; $readmore_link = '<a href="' . $node_url . '" title="' . $title.'">' . t('read more') . '</a>' . ' | ';}else { print $node->field_body[0]['view']; $readmore_link = "";}// more stuff here...<?php if ($links) { ?><div class="links">» <?php print $readmore_link . $links ?></div><?php }; ?>Some problem
Hmmm… I don’t use
Wow, thanks for that post.
<?php if ($page == 0): ?> <p><a href="<?php print $node_url ?>" title="<?php print $title ?>">Read More...</a></p> <?php endif; ?>I'm sure that there's a better way, but that seems to work for now.That’s funny! I’ve been
After a short hiatus, I
<div class="content"><?php if ($page == 0) { print $cck_teaser; } else { print strip_tags($node->field_body[0]['view'], '<i>, <b>, <p>, <em>, <a>');} ?> <?php if ($page == 0): ?> <p><a href="<?php print $node_url ?>" title="<?php print $title ?>">Read More...</a></p> <?php endif; ?></div>It's still got the same ghetto fabulous "Read More..." code (if for no other reason than it doesn't support multiple languages). But now it outputs the teaser with Drupal's auto line-breaks intact as well as selected HTML tags. Text specific tags like italics and links are preserved, but tags that may disrupt the main page's CSS or layout (like DIVs, images, or Javascript) are stripped out. Again, it may not be elegant, but it's the best I can do with my limited knowledge of PHP. (BTW, CCK was finally updated the other day, with no sign of a patch for teasers being included. Arg!)