Forum Subject: Split up the index items in 2 columns

Posted on: 03/09/04 07:06am
By: bloc

Recently a friend of mine wanted to start using Geeklog, and asked if it was possible to have 2 columns instead of just the one on the index-page.

Well, I made a hack to mimic that, since geeklog doesn't seem to support multiple columns...Its very basic, just 2 columns where "featured" gets on top in the left column and the rest follows left - right column.
Perhaps someone might find a use for it.

Since my friend didn't want "featured" to be just 1 column I left that one out...but it is easy to add back in again.

The changes are made in public_html/index.php

$data = DB_query ("SELECT COUNT(*) AS count " . $sql);
$D = DB_fetchArray ($data);
$num_pages = ceil ($D['count'] / $limit);
 
// between here the changes are made

if ($nrows > 0) {
$half=ceil($nrows/2);
$rest=$nrows-$half;
$display .= '<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top"';
if ($rest <=0) { $display .=' width="100%"';} else {$display .=' width="50%"';}
$display .= '>';
  for ($x = 1; $x <= $half; $x++) {
        $A = DB_fetchArray($result);
        if ($A['featured'] == 1) {
            $feature = 'true';
        } elseif (($x == 1) && ($_CONF['showfirstasfeatured'] == 1)) {
            $feature = 'true';
            $A['featured'] = 1;
        } 
       $display .= COM_article($A,'y');
   }
$display .= '</td>';
if ($rest>0)
   {$display .= '<td width="50%" valign="top">';
       for ($x = $half+1; $x <= $nrows; $x++) {
        $A = DB_fetchArray($result);
        $display .= COM_article($A,'y');
       }
		    $display .= '</td>';
		}

$display .= '</tr></table>';

// between here the changes are made

    $display .= PLG_showCenterblock (3, $page, $topic); // bottom blocks

Split up the index items in 2 columns

Posted on: 08/04/04 01:47pm
By: Anonymous (greenhil)

THIS ROCKS!

i came here looking for precisely this and it works great.

thanks for the hack
greenhil

Split up the index items in 2 columns

Posted on: 11/07/04 08:57pm
By: Euan

Here's another one[*1] that uses templates and puts the featured article in across both columns (index.php included is from 1.3.10rc2).

Cheers,

Euan.

Re: Split up the index items in 2 columns

Posted on: 09/27/08 02:46pm
By: koalasoft

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