Very impressed with Geeklog. Thanks for all the effort.

Problem: I want the topic name links in each story, but not the topic icon images.

In Firefox, if I want to have a topic link on each story, I just remove the configured image for each topic. but in Internet Explorer 6, this makes a broken image link.

My beta test site is at http://azuvilla.com/sites/anguilla (I want to use geeklog for this existing blog: http://news.ai/daily.php3).

here is the template code that i put into story.thtml:

<b>{story_anchortag_and_image}</b>

and here is the html code that is generated from story.thml

<b><a href="http://azuvilla.com/sites/anguilla//index.php?topic=art"><img align="right" src="http://azuvilla.com/sites/anguilla//images/icons/" alt="Art" title="Art" border="0"></a></b>

Notice that there is an img tag to the img directory, even though there is not an img file name. This is because the topic config screen has "/images/icons/" in the image field.

So, I would have to create a topic icon image for every topic if I want topic links on stories.

I studied lib-story.php and then tried using the (story_topic_name) and and (story_topic_url) variables in the story.thmtl, but they were not processed (I just got a link with "(story_topic_name)" as the link.

Here is the code that I tried in story.thmlt:

<a href="(story_topic_url)">(story_topic_name)</a>

I don't notice any differences between story_topic_name and story_anchortag_and_image in lib-story.php, but I am
obviously missing something. Here is part of the original code from lib-story-php :

$article->set_var( 'story_topic_name', $topicname );

if( $_USER['noicons'] != 1 AND $A['show_topic_icon'] == 1 )
{
$topicurl = $_CONF['site_url'] . '/index.php?topic=' . $A['tid'];
if( !empty( $A['imageurl'] ))
{
if( isset( $_THEME_URL ))
{
$imagebase = $_THEME_URL;
}
else
{
$imagebase = $_CONF['site_url'];
}
$topicimage = '<img align="' . $_CONF['article_image_align']
. '" src="' . $imagebase . $A['imageurl'] . '" alt="'
. $topicname . '" title="' . $topicname . '" border="0">';
$article->set_var( 'story_anchortag_and_image', '<a href="'
. $topicurl . '">' . $topicimage . '</a>' );
$article->set_var( 'story_topic_image', $topicimage );
}
$article->set_var( 'story_topic_url', $topicurl );
}

how do I figure out which of these $article variables are exported to the template and which are not?

See also this forum post about removing the topic icon. It does not comflict with my experience

http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=3&showtopic=38240

Thanks for any suggestions.

p.s. sorry for the lack of indenation, but I used text mode so I could put in the html code as a literal

andy mahoney gave me the answer. thanks.

i needed curly braces instead of parentheses. perhaps this is a case where a little documentation would have helped after all, since my eyes obviously could not see the difference

{story_topic_name}

this gives a link in the story to the current topic, without icon image files (and it works on IE and Firefox).

and this makes me think that any $article varialbes that are set in the php
files can probably be used in the template.

Hehe I wish. Here is a list of most of the available variables.

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nothin.. don't mind me