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Plugin Articles

Use this Wiki Plugin to include any number of articles into a wiki page. For a plugin that includes components of a single article, see pluginArticle. This is particularly useful if you want to include the top 2 articles into your homepage, but being anyway able to write some custom Wiki text.

For a quick summary of a list of articles you can also use pluginModule to display Module last_articles.

Usage

To display articles in a wiki page, use the syntax:
{ARTICLES(max=>3, topic=>tw,topicId=>1, type=>news, categId=>1, lang=>en, sort=>lastModif_asc)}{ARTICLES}


Param Values Defaults Req ? Explanation Since
max Numeric Meant to control number of articles
topic string Filter on the topics. Example: 'News', '!News', 'News+Events', '!News+Events'
topicId string Filter on topic Ids. Example: '1', '!1', '1+2', '!1+2' 1.10
type string Filter on the types. Example: 'Article', '!Article', 'Article+Review', '!Article+Review'
categId Numeric Filter on the category Id
lang String(en,fr,en_uk...) Language 1.9.7
sort String(columnName_asc or columnName_desc where columnName is a column name (created, publishDate, title....) or random sort on column asc or desc 1.10
order ArticleId separated with vertical bar Will put the articles at the top if the list if the article is displayed in the page in the order of the param 9.0
articleId ArticleId separated with vertical bar Will only display these articlesId - other filters are also applies 9.0
notArticleId ArticleId separated with vertical bar Will not display these articlesId 9.0
start Numeric List starts with this article number 5.0
fullbody y or n set to y or n, and specifies whether the whole Article is displayed versus just the Header and Title 5.0
dateStart, dateEnd date using a YYYY-MM-DD format, Articles with their publish date greater than dateStart and less than or equal to dateEnd are included 5.0
overrideDates y or n this should be set to y so that if the Type parameters "Show before publish date" or "Show after expire date" have not been set the appropriate Articles can still be extracted using dateStart and dateEnd values which may be 'outside' the publish or expire dates 5.0
containerClass text text that specifies a css class style used to style the resultant display 5.0
largefirstimage y or n if y, the first image will be displayed with the dimension used for the view of the article 6.0
urlparam url param Additional params to add to tiki-read_articles.php (Ex: from=y) 6.0
actions y or n y Param to show links and buttons to perform actions with each article shown, if permissions are met. When set to 'n', no link to 'Add a comment' will be shown, nor the buttons to edit the article, etc. 6.1
usePagination y or n n Activate pagination when articles listing are long
Maximum Displayed numeric The number of articles to display in the list (no max set by default). If Pagination is set to y (Yes), this will determine the amount of articles per page. This is needed if Use Pagination is activated.
periodQuantity numeric n Numeric value to display only articles created within a user defined time-frame. Used in conjunction with the next parameter "Period unit", this parameter indicates how many of those units are to be considered to define the time frame. Use in conjunction with "max=-1" to list all items (by default "max" is set to 10). 6.5, 7.2, 8.0
periodUnit hour/day/week/month n Time unit used with "Period quantity" 6.5, 7.x, 8.0


Example

In this example below, a wiki page is shown including the articles plugin, so that last articles are shown below the "! News" heading of the page:

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In that example, the syntax was:
{ARTICLES(max=>5,topicId=>!5)}{ARTICLES}


When topic="!New+Events', only the articles that have not a topic News or a topic Events will be displayed. You can put as many topics you want by separating them with the character '+'.The character '!' means not - It can be only on first place. Do not put space around the separator.

Multilingualism

The multilinguism is managed on 2 aspects:
  • If you have selected the multilingualism and best_language features, and when this plugin is inserted in a page that has a defined language, some articles can be filtered out. For each set of translations, when one article of this set has the same language as the page language, only this article in the set will be displayed. Please note that you can still see an article of another language, if this article is not in a set of translations or if this set of translations has no article in the page language.
  • If you use the parameter lang, only the articles in this language will be shown




Contributors to this page: lindon5651 points  , Xavi64467 points  , sylvie7154 points  , Marc Laporte8141 points  , aproulx341 points  , Greg Martin83 points  , luciash d' being2152 points  , Geoff Brickell741 points  , Urbizzness41 points  and mlpvolt4266 points  .
Page last modified on Wednesday 04 January, 2012 03:30:24 UTC by lindon5651 points .
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