Hi,

See my forum here http://www.saints247.com using the portal as the home.

On that home page how can I only show a snippet of text from each post rather than the whole post, say, the first 200 or so characters with a 'read more' link at the end of it?

Sorry, I guess this should have gone under the 'How Do I?' forum

You'd have to modify the portal files (which really would be unsupported); give me a minute to figure it out...

In scripts/portal.inc.php Find:


Replace With:


Replace 200 with however long you'd like it to be.

Thanks Gizmo, working a treat

However, how do I append a 'Read more' link ?

In the portal.tpl file there is code that relates to truncated news, see below, with text of 'To be continued?' but I don't see how this is working or should be working on the page and was wondering if that is how I can get the 'Read more' link I was after?

---
{section name=item loop=$news}
{$tbopen}
<tr><td class="tdheader">
<span style="float:right" class="small">{$news[item].time}</span>
<a href="{ubb url="ubb=showflat&Number=`$news[item].topic_id`" title=$news[item].subject}">{$news[item].subject}</a>
<span class="small">
{$lang.POSTED_BY} {$news[item].poster}
</span>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="alt-1">
<div class="post_inner">
{if $news[item].newsicon}
<img style="float:left; margin: 0px;" src="{$config.BASE_URL}/images/{$style_array.news}/{$news[item].newsicon}" alt="" />
{/if}
<br />
{$news[item].body} {if $news[item].truncated} <a href="{ubb url="ubb=showflat&Number=`$news[item].topic_id`" title=$news[item].subject}">To be continued?</a>{/if}
<br /><br />
<div style="text-align:right; clear:both" class="small">
{$news[item].views} {$lang.VIEWS}
·
<a href="{ubb url="ubb=showflat&Number=`$news[item].topic_id`" title=$news[item].subject}">{$news[item].replies} {$lang.REPLIES}</a>
</div>
</div>
</td></tr>
{$tbclose}
{/section}

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I noticed that but saw no real indication of how to truncate the data in the cp and didn't really dig in the script file much...

You could just add a link by copying that link data for the truncated message and put it after the {$news[item].body} indication.

Ok, all I needed to do in the end was replace this bit:

{$news[item].body} {if $news[item].truncated} <a href="{ubb url="ubb=showflat&Number=`$news[item].topic_id`" title=$news[item].subject}">To be continued?</a>{/if}

with this

{$news[item].body}.... <a href="{ubb url="ubb=showflat&Number=`$news[item].topic_id`" title=$news[item].subject}">Read more....</a>


Thanks for the pointers