Updated and New Articles

[nguyenmp]

Working on trying to get all the recently edited and new articles on the front page or something.

Maybe a tab on the Topics page.

[nguyenmp]

Code that might be relevant is ./modules/node/node.admin.inc:403

I think this is how the recently edited articles from http://localhost/sexinfo/admin/content are generated.

[nguyenmp]

If there's anything I've learned from this issue, it's that I don't know how to PHP. Code was SUPER simple. lol

[andrewberls]

Nice! Is that only displaying to logged in users?

[nguyenmp]

I just checked and it's for all users. I'm kind of stuck with this now. It's functional but I don't really know where to shove this little piece and how to decorate it. I looked at the other fields on the home page and they all have insane classes and stuff. The code resides in recent-changes.

[andrewberls]

Well it's intended for the writers right? I think just toss on a bit of CSS and display it only to logged in users (I'm happy to do either or both), and it's fine where it is!

[nguyenmp]

Hmm. I thought I already commented on this issue but apparently not. My aim with this issue/feature is to have something on the front page (or somewhere) showing new things. Some of the writers were complaining that the website doesn't change a lot. Like, you have to spend a lot of time to find stuff that's new and interesting. This will give new things a spotlight to shine in.

[andrewberls]

I see - in my head it was for writers only, for whatever reason. I definitely wouldn't do that little modal thing if it's for everyone, although I'm not sure where else to put it if that's the case.

[nguyenmp]

Would there perhaps be a place for it in the topics page? I know Nina wanted to also do one with random articles.

Andrew Berls notifications@github.com wrote:

I see - in my head it was for writers only, for whatever reason. I definitely wouldn't do that little modal thing if it's for everyone, although I'm not sure where else to put it if that's the case.

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[andrewberls]

Perhaps. I'm experimenting with tweaking it on the front page, shooting for something similar to this:

[rnkaufman]

I was thinking of putting the "random articles" button on the sidebar I will work on that will appear to the right of each article. We can put a "random article" button in other places too though. Putting it by a "new article" section sounds logical.

Lol Andrew, your post just popped up. I feel like the formatting could use some work but it's a good idea.

[andrewberls]

Yeah, I'm having a lot of trouble extracting a content summary from a node though. I have it back to this, but I have no clue what to do with it. Maybe worth thinking how it might fit into the new topics page.

[nguyenmp]

Would you be able to do it if you had the actual content for each article? I found the table where the content is stored (as HTML) and it'll just be a matter of filtering by the node ID's. I'm thinking of stripping headers and just showing the first 160 or so characters.

[rnkaufman]

That looks good :D That looks like something that would be good to have on the front page too. As far as putting it on the topics page, maybe we can have a category labeled "New" that will show the latest articles? That could even be the default open tab so that people always see the most recently changed articles first.

[andrewberls]

Mark: I was able to get the actual content - I just gave up for the time being because I didn't want to figure out how to strip out tags. The question form shows up too, which isn't great - printing out the value creates a giant pink "Think youre pregnant" button in the list :p

Nina: I like the idea of a tabbed display! Could work well along with the grid

[rnkaufman]

Yeah--the mockup already has the tabs and it would just be the one at the top/the one selected by default. I think that could be a good idea. :D