"Related" Templates similar to Teaser

[jsw_nz]

Hi Guys
Been away for awhile so I need to refresh my memory regarding the {RELATED} tag.
Does it support 'templates' or is there a custom {RT} that returns a list of related articles
- suitable for formatting... that acts like the {RELATED} tag

FORMAT
What I am trying to do is to list related articles with mini thumbnail of (1) article image,(2) css styled title and (3)and link.

BEHAVIOR
It would behave like a teaser - but automatically is updated when a new article (using same related *keyword*) gets
added to the CMS. My memory of teasers is that they are manually set.

Hope this is clear enough to start discussion
kind regards
jsw_nz

[pepe]

Hi John,

the contentpart "teaser" should be tailor-made to your needs...
have a closer look into the "hidden" menu-sections of the contentpart teaser, if you do NOT choose the manual sortorder!

[jsw_nz]

Hi Pepe!

Good to hear from you - one of the faithful wcms'ers.
Not exactly sure about what you mention - unless its a newer release of the PHPWCMS
I think I am running 1.4.5

In Teaser CP - are you referring to this:


the drop down selector looks like this:


...so I am not finding "hidden" menu-sections as you mention
- unless I am missing something

cheers

[update]

hidden menu sections = dropdown menu
Try RELATEDX- it is really cool and has all you need

[jsw_nz]

Hi Claus
Another of the faithful -

I was looking at Knut's RT
- but it does not select the image itself
- a selection process that requires de-serialization...
- if worse comes to worse - I will hack it - to get the image thumb in there

the output would be a series of float:left divs with mini-thumbnail and cufon css title - with linkage
at least that's the idea

cheers
-john-

[Oliver Georgi]

use keywords (tags) in the articles (as needed for the old {RELATED}, then use the teaser CP with the tags should be used to filter "related" contents.

[pepe]

Try another selection than "manual"... ( lets say: change date, ... ) and you will see, what happens

[update]

use keywords (tags) in the articles (as needed for the old {RELATED}, then use the teaser CP with the tags should be used to filter "related" contents.

AAAHA! I will give it a try later

[jsw_nz]

Thanks Guys!

Oliver - thanks for that tip
- I never realized you could do this!
- Still have an issue however.

Is there any way to exclude the current article in the final output?
This is the nice way related works - every other article with *keyword* except the current article.

Cheers
jsw_nz

UPDATE: Now sorted - selecting a category (in menu items) for the article >>> current article is excluded.
menu-sections - thanks Pepe

[pepe]

Less than 12 hours... and all problems are "history"... what a great forum

Best wishes to NZ from "good ole europe"

[jsw_nz]

Less than 12 hours... and all problems are "history"... what a great forum

couldn't have said it better - thanks to Pepe , Oliver , and Claus

all the best from Lake Hawea - NZ

[pepe]

Oh boy,
what a paradise this Lake Hawea district is... a real dream: http://www.google.de/search?q=lake+hawe ... 26&bih=668

And i'm sitting here in my small "office", looking through the closed windows into a heavy rain ...

[jsw_nz]

Cheers Pepe
Well s a matter of fact its windy here tonight with a light rain - so not always like paradise

got another question related to teaser templates themselves.....
I am trying to create teaser elements that output and populate the page with this behavior:
(1) mini --thumbnail (2) article title formatted with Cufon (3) link to article itself and (4) mini-thumb rollover >> popup ajax preview
(1-3) no problem - since teaser supports by default
(4) is the experimental part - the popup ajax preview shows larger version of article image, article title and article summary

I have the Jquery ajax working
so needing a way to retrieve article image, article title and article summary in list mode index.php?my-article-in-list mode....
(hope that makes sense - just trying to output a bare bones page - not unlike the teaser itself...)
might you have any ideas - you have always been an expert about these things



here is the exisitng code:

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<a rel="html_popup_1.html" href="mydomain.com/index.php?76-moorehouse" class="personPopupTrigger"><img width="42" border="0" height="29" alt="" id="show_moorehouse_preview" src="img/site_showcase/show_moorehouse.gif" name="show_moorehouse">76 Moorhouse Avenue</a>

right now - the ajax call returns: rel="html_popup_1.html"
needing it to call a wcms expression - mydomain.com/index.php?76-moorehouse&listMode=true
not sure if it is possible - for now as a workaround I created separate preview pages which return image title summary
- a little extra work but at least this works.....

cheers
john

[Oliver Georgi]

Stop using Cufon! Dead, slow! CSS @font-face works with all current browsers (including IE). Good start is FontSquirrel.

4) no need for Ajax if it is the same info as the teaser has. Use jQuery and hidden sections (CSS) in combination with FancyBox or other Lightbox-styled popover. If you really need Ajax to catch the full article have a look at this. Click on "Details ansehen". It will load the related article but using Ajax and some phpwcms default functionality to render only special content sections. What you see there is a jQuery script I have developed in combination with FancyBox. The script builds the Ajax calls dynamically and gets pages based on URL like this:

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http://www.kellpax.ch/index.php?aid=31&cmsgo_output_action=F-split_ajax--S-AJAX

The advantage: Google will index the normal article link. So indexing is working fine. All pages still accessible.

[jsw_nz]

Oliver
once again - big thanks - you have given me a list of new things to study....
many many thanks -