While working on a new template for Pligg I was trying to come up with the best way to manage articles that would appear on top of the homepage to feature select stories. I originally was thinking that I could use the "Groups" feature for Pligg, or even create a "Featured" category. Then I thought that those methods would not allow me to appropriately label my news and were not the best way to handle the featured news articles that I wanted on the homepage. That's when I turned to CMStheme's Featurify module, which allows admins to manually set up images that link to news article and rotate those images somewhere in your template. A few hours later I had created a "Featured" module for Pligg.

How it works
The first thing you will need to do is upload and install the module. Then add a snippet of code to the template file where you want the featured news to appear. You can do this by adding the following line to a .tpl file:

{$featured}

I suggest that you place it on your homepage by placing it in index_center.tpl and wrapping it with the following code so that it only shows up on the homepage and not the second, third, etc. pages.

{if $pagename == 'index' && count($templatelite.get) == 0}{$featured}{/if}

The Featured module has a nearly identical admin interface to the Featurify module. Admins can log in to the admin area and then navigate to a page where it displays your current featured news items. If you want to remove a news item you can easily edit or delete it, or if you don't have any you can click on the button to "Add Featured News". See the attached screenshots for examples.

The module is set to only grab the latest 4 news items from your Featured News list. The most recent item will be used to display the first news article with a larger image, while the second, third and fourth most recent article appear with a smaller thumbnail.

The template file used for this module ( /modules/featured/templates/featured.tpl ) has been designed to work with the new Arthemia Pligg template. If you are using another template you will want to customize this file to make it look better in your own template. You can also make some small tweaks to the file to change how many stories you want to appear, how many characters the smaller stories get in their descriptions before being cut off and other cosmetic changes.

Lastly, make sure that you CHMOD 0777 the /modules/featured/phpthumb/cache/ directory to ensure that thumbnails are able to be added to that folder.

Credits
CMStheme for his Featurify module.
phpthumb for generating and caching image thumbnails

[suppp]

How can I change the featured story urls to url method 2?
Thanks a lot in advance!

Best,
Michael

[marvinpoo]

I've got a problem with the Image of the featured.
Nat 'n Alex United - Your source for news about Nat 'n Alex Wolff.

if (!$this->ImageMagickVersion() && !phpthumb_functions::gd_version()) {
					return $this->ErrorImage('Neither GD nor ImageMagick seem to be installed on this server. At least one (preferably GD), or better both, MUST be installed for phpThumb to work.');
				} elseif ($HeaderFourBytes == "\xD7\xCD\xC6\x9A") { // WMF
					return $this->ErrorImage($this->ImageMagickVersion() ? 'ImageMagick failed on WMF source conversion' : 'ImageMagick is unavailable and phpThumb() does not support WMF source images without it');
				} elseif ($HeaderFourBytes == '%PDF') { // "%PDF"
					return $this->ErrorImage($this->ImageMagickVersion() ? 'ImageMagick and GhostScript are both required for PDF source images; GhostScript may not be properly configured' : 'ImageMagick and/or GhostScript are unavailable and phpThumb() does not support PDF source images without them');
				} elseif (substr($HeaderFourBytes, 0, 3) == "\xFF\xD8\xFF") { // JPEG
					return $this->ErrorImage('Image (JPEG) is too large for PHP-GD memory_limit, please install ImageMagick or increase php.ini memory_limit setting');
				} elseif ($HeaderFourBytes == '%PNG') { // "%PNG"
					return $this->ErrorImage('Image (PNG) is too large for PHP-GD memory_limit, please install ImageMagick or increase php.ini memory_limit setting');
				} elseif (substr($HeaderFourBytes, 0, 3) == 'GIF') { // GIF
					return $this->ErrorImage('Image (GIF) is too large for PHP-GD memory_limit, please install ImageMagick or increase php.ini memory_limit setting');
				}
				return $this->ErrorImage('Unknown image type identified by "'.$HeaderFourBytes.'" ('.phpthumb_functions::HexCharDisplay($HeaderFourBytes).') in SourceImageToGD() ['.__LINE__.']');

The reason why it is might a unknown image is because the image is saved as code in the mysql not as a picture link.
The thing is I can see the pic in the admin menue but not in the frontpage



Soluted on a not so cool but really good ideo for my site (mostly just for members which need to get verified manually)

I made the link of the picture which can seen at the admin site for this featured post.
It can also seen by registred, admins & gods but nor by unregistered.
Also I let them cropp by simple <img> tags

Anyways THANKS for that template

[kyuzo]

Originally Posted by 67895123

OK, I fixed it myself.
If you have same ploblem, try this


First,

Open

modules\featured\templates\featured.tpl

go to line 24 and change

<a href="{$featured[featured].link_url}"><img style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:2px;" src="{$my_pligg_base}/modules/featured/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src={$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}%2fmodules%2ffeatured%2ffeatured.php%3fid%3d{$featured[featured].featured_id}&w=300" alt=""></a>

to

<a href="{$featured[featured].link_url}"><img style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:2px;" src="{$my_pligg_base}/modules/featured/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src=http%3a%2f%2fwww.YOR_DOMAIN_NAME.com%2fmodules%2ffeatured%2ffeatured.php%3fid%3d{$featured[featured].featured_id}&w=300" alt=""></a>

if you install in sub folder
ex. http://www.YOR_DOMAIN_NAME.com/YOUR_FOLDER try this

<a href="{$featured[featured].link_url}"><img style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:2px;" src="{$my_pligg_base}/modules/featured/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src=http%3a%2f%2fwww.YOR_DOMAIN_NAME.com%2fYOUR_FOLDER%2fmodules%2ffeatured%2ffeatured.php%3fid%3d{$featured[featured].featured_id}&w=300" alt=""></a>

Go to line 37,
Change this

<img class="left" src="{$my_pligg_base}/modules/featured/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src={$my_base_url}{$my_pligg_base}%2fmodules%2ffeatured%2ffeatured.php%3fid%3d{$featured[featured].featured_id}&w=100" alt="">

to

<img class="left" src="{$my_pligg_base}/modules/featured/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src=http%3a%2f%2fwww.YOR_DOMAIN_NAME.com%2fmodules%2ffeatured%2ffeatured.php%3fid%3d{$featured[featured].featured_id}&w=100" alt="">

if you install in sub folder

<img class="left" src="{$my_pligg_base}/modules/featured/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src=http%3a%2f%2fwww.YOR_DOMAIN_NAME.com%2fYOUR_FOLDER%2fmodules%2ffeatured%2ffeatured.php%3fid%3d{$featured[featured].featured_id}&w=100" alt="">

Save and upload


Ps. Don't for get to change
YOR_DOMAIN_NAME
YOUR_FOLDER

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Thx 67895123 - this seems solves the problem

[Lambert007]

Dear Yankidank and all
use pligg 1.0.4
How to solve the Recent Submissions category to active?
pls find attach
thank you

[Ganha]

his module comes with a google ad?, i cant seem to find the file that contains that ad. I have searched for all filles and nothing, maybe its from the arthemia theme that i am using, but arthemia has a directory with 3 files called "ads" and none of them have adsense.

See atchement

[chuckroast]

No this module does not have adsense either.
Neither does the Arthemia template.
You've most likely installed the adsense sharing module.

[Ganha]

You are right, never thought of that, how stupid

[kirshsam]

Does anyone know why the images for the Features are not being displayed? I see the images saved in the database and also when I do "View Image" in Manage Featured Admin section. But in the front page they are not being displayed. Thank you.

[Yankidank]

Right click > View Image, and see where the link is pointing to.
It would be helpful if you listed your site so we could just look ourselves.

[oggito]

Hello,

I use this great module on my website. I need to crop (resize) the images for the featured news. How can I use the Smart Image Resizer (SIR) for doing this? Is that possible? I hope to receive your great support on this issue.

Thanks!