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Wanted to share this. I like having my featured story display with a grey box around it to set it apart on from the rest of the stories when visitors hit my site. However, when they click read more, I want the featured story to be displayed like the other stories, black text on a white background.

What I noticed is that index.php and article.php would pass 'y' , and 'n' for the latter. So, I went to system/lib-story.php and made some changes. See, one of the passed variables the function STORY_renderArticle is waiting for is what the $index = ' ' value will be.

Here is the original part of the code I evaluated:


I want the look to be different when displaying the entire article! So, I changed it to this:


The if($index == 'n' catches if this is going to be displayed on the index page or not. So, based on that, I tell it which templates I want it to use, and in my case, I'm happy to use regular story templates.

If you want to add additional templates to choose from, you need to go to line 116 and add them in this array:


And of course, created the templates in your layout. Hope this helps someone. It took me a while to figure it out. Hope this hasn't already been posted ( I did search couldn't find anything like this).

NOTE: Always remember to back up your files before doing these kind of hacks.

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T.Marquez Jr. -
Webmaster -
www.indianapolisfilm.net - Geeklog 1.4.0sr5-1

Btw, in Geeklog 1.4.1 there's a new variable {story_display}, available in the story and article templates, that contains either 'index', 'article', or 'preview', depending on where the story is currently being displayed.

You can then use that to define CSS classes that change the display of the story accordingly.

E.g. h1.index { color: red; } and h1.article { color: green; } would let the article's title change color from red (index page) to green (article.php).

bye, Dirk