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[Barrie North]

You should probably submit that as a bug....

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Barrie North
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>    1. Blog content lead story on shows intro (Hans C. Kaspersetz)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:08:50 -0500
> From: "Hans C. Kaspersetz" <hans at cyberxdesigns.com>
> Subject: [joomla] Blog content lead story on shows intro
> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
> Message-ID: <45D89632.2040500 at cyberxdesigns.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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> I am working on a Joomla 1.0.12 stable website today and I seem to have 
> run into some unexpected behavior.  When I set 1 story to be lead, 1 to 
> be intro and 4 of links in a Blog - Content Category, all I get is 2 
> intros and 4 links.  By the way the number of lead and intro stories is 
> arbitrary.  If I set it to 2 and 1, I get three intros.  The first story 
> is not the full text.  My expectation is that the lead story is supposed 
> to be full text, the intro shows intro and the links are links.  Is my 
> expectation correct?
>
> An examination of the source shows that Joomla is not selecting the full 
> text, it selects the length of it and then stores that in 
> $row->readmore.  However, down in the show() function, Joomla is 
> expecting the $row->fulltext variable to be set.  Is this a feature or a 
> bug?  Anyone else having these problems?
>
> Select from line 801 in content.php.
>
> // Main data query
>     $query = "SELECT a.id, a.title, a.title_alias, a.introtext, 
> a.sectionid, a.state, a.catid, a.created, a.created_by, 
> a.created_by_alias, a.modified, a.modified_by,"
>     . "\n a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.publish_up, 
> a.publish_down, a.images, a.urls, a.ordering, a.metakey, a.metadesc, 
> a.access,"
>     . "\n CHAR_LENGTH( a.fulltext ) AS readmore, s.published AS 
> sec_pub,  cc.published AS sec_pub, u.name AS author, u.usertype, s.name 
> AS section, cc.name AS category, g.name AS groups"
>     . $voting['select']
>     . "\n FROM #__content AS a"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__categories AS cc ON cc.id = a.catid"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__users AS u ON u.id = a.created_by"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__sections AS s ON a.sectionid = s.id"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__groups AS g ON a.access = g.id"
>     . $voting['join']
>     . $where
>     . "\n ORDER BY $order_pri $order_sec"
>     ;
>
>  From show function expecting full text, ~ line 1718:
>
> // show/hides the intro text
>     if ( $params->get( 'introtext'  ) ) {
>        
>         $row->text = $row->introtext . ( $params->get( 'intro_only' ) ? 
> '' : chr(13) . chr(13) . $row->fulltext);
>     } else {
>         $row->text = $row->fulltext;
>     }
>
>
> Additionally, for some reason, 'intro_only' is hard coded as 1.  So 
> there is no way to get the full text in the blog.
>
> As a solution, I patched content.php in two places to make it work.  
> First, I have to set 'intro_only' to 0 when I am calling show() in in 
> the lead story conditional.  Then I set it back to 1.
>
> ------------  Line 1256 in content.php  ------------
> $params->set( 'intro_only',     0 );  //  We need to set this so that 
> show will include full text
>
> show( $rows[$i], $params, $gid, $access, $pop );  // Original and 
> unchanged!
>
> $params->set('intro_only', 1);  // We need to turn it back off, so that 
> intro stories only have intro text.
>
> -------------  End snip ----------------
>
> Then I need to modify the content select to get the full text:
>
> ------------- Line 801 in content.php -----------------
> // Just added a.full text to select.  Hans
>
> // Main data query
>     $query = "SELECT a.id, a.title, a.title_alias, a.introtext, 
> a.sectionid, a.state, a.catid, a.created, a.created_by, 
> a.created_by_alias, a.modified, a.modified_by,"
>     . "\n a.checked_out, a.checked_out_time, a.publish_up, 
> a.publish_down, a.images, a.urls, a.ordering, a.metakey, a.metadesc, 
> a.access,"
>     . "\n CHAR_LENGTH( a.fulltext ) AS readmore, a.fulltext, s.published 
> AS sec_pub,  cc.published AS sec_pub, u.name AS author, u.usertype, 
> s.name AS section, cc.name AS category, g.name AS groups"
>     . $voting['select']
>     . "\n FROM #__content AS a"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__categories AS cc ON cc.id = a.catid"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__users AS u ON u.id = a.created_by"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__sections AS s ON a.sectionid = s.id"
>     . "\n LEFT JOIN #__groups AS g ON a.access = g.id"
>     . $voting['join']
>     . $where
>     . "\n ORDER BY $order_pri $order_sec"
>     ;
> ---------------  End snip ---------------
>
>
> I tried all the settings in Joomla, I think this is a real bug.  But I 
> would love someone else's opinion on the topic.
>
> Thanks,
> Hans
>
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