Pls help about {TEASER_EX} - cant seems to work at all!

[nok78]

hi all,

I've been Learning PHPWCMS in the last week or so now and ve been loving it so far. One question though, regarding this {TEASER_EX}, i cant seem to work at all. I have downloaded the latest version of {TEASER_EX} and am using phpwcms v1.2.5.

I've been to evry post and tutorials that you can ever find here at the forum and the longer i look just seems to frustrate me a lot. I would appreciate it if anybody can give me a basic tutorial of how to implement this {TEASER_EX}. Your input is very much appreciated.

Here's my site structure:
-Category1
-Category2
-Category News
-Article "news" (articleid=13)
-Article "news1" (articleid=14)
-Article "news2" (articleid=15)
-Article "news3" (articleid=16)
-Category4
-Category5
and so on


Thanks in advance, peace!
basti

[larmann]

Hi Basti,

as I consider the situation your problem is not connected to teaser_ex, but to the understanding of articles. Please go to Admin -> Category News "EDIT"

Now tell me, what is the number under "top article count:"

I suppose there is "-1", right? Put it to 5

[lady_witchcraft]

---- same problem, no solution.... any ideas or hints what's wrong with my using {teaser_ex} ----

found this RT - big thank to erich!!!!! for his work - after searching several days to find a solution for my new portfolio... BUT *damned* i can't get the mod runnig, and i absolutely clueless, what's the problem!!! 'cause the RT shows absolutely nothing...

can anyone help me PLEASE
http://www.kultschmiede.org/05portfolio/index.php?print

this is my new projekt, where i really like to use the teaser_ex RT to navigate through the samples... should be shown in the lower white box... the {CONTENT} RT in the bigger white box (right side) shows exactly what should be displayed in dhe lower white box to navigate through... any clue, what the RT teaser_ex shows nothing???

the RT ist placed in the page-template for this site (index.php?print) in the lower box - the code looks like:

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{TEASER_EX:print|-1:-1: |DESC:0: | :10: :default:2: :0:0:45:1:horz} 

the simple menue structure looks like (only 1 level, maybe i'll need a second in each category for the teaser...):

HOME

• * print (containing the 3 articles with image + summary - shown by content RT in the bigger box - there is another testing category named nav_print with the copied artikles from print, but both doesn't work!!!)
  * web
  * media
  * bio

and the needed file IS in the frontend_render
and RT support IS enabled
and i'm using the newest version of the mod and phpwcms (downloaded and installed today)
and "top article listing" is NOT -1 (tried everything - as one member here suggested to use -1 - i also tried other numbers just for fun.. nothing changes....!!!)
and i really got no clue or idea, what i am doing wrong - please help me!!!

i think the apache, sql and other versions should fit the requirements /phpwcms 1.2.5 /teaser_ex 1.7/MySQL - 4.0.24_Debian-4.dotdeb.0-log/Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/4.4.2

the only thing which is written in the source code is
<!-- START TEASER TABLE HORIZONTAL -->
<table id="teaserTable"></table>
<!-- END TEASER TABLE -->"

nothing more, nothing left, but it should show the article images linking to the articles (template: thumb.tmpl is in use..)
this template contains only the image tag and the article link... is this the fault??? does the RT needs more? i've seen on the sample page http://www.fitmess.com/index.php?id=7,0,0,1,0,0 how the RT could work, and i need exactly the same for my portfolio, just the pics should be horzontally aligned, not vertically... does anybody knows the "father of this page" and maybe he/she could help me?!?!?!?

has anybody a big heart and could help a dummie like me to find the solution?

thx in advance!!! sunny greets from vienna - claudia

P.S: no i won't use flash instead of the phpwcms to solv my prob

[DeXXus]

Perhaps you should explain again (in simple terms) what seems to be missing? (the problem is unclear within all the good information you provide... to me, anyway )
Is their more content in the articles that is not showing up?

-When I click on thumbnail1...I get an article with title 01_KARTE and the thumbnail with text to the right that reads "test, HALLO"
-When I click on thumbnail2...I get an article with title 02_flyer and no text.
-When I click on thumbnail3...I get an article with title 03_CI and the thumbnail with text to the right that reads "rasthaus"

"Tiny" syntax error here:
line 57 column 186 - Warning: <img> attribute "id" has invalid value "01print"
->ID and NAME must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z])

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<img src="img/layout05/01_print_a.gif" alt="01 PRINT" name="01print" width="59" height="44" border="0" id="01print" title="01 PRINT" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('01printtop','','img/layout05/01_print_top_a.gif','01print','','img/layout05/01_print_a.gif','02webtop','','img/layout05/02_web_top_a.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()">

BTW, in Firefox, your horizontal thumbnails change to one vertical column (and sometimes two columns) when clicked upon and then <back> button is chosen. They also do not remain within your white "rounded-corners" box (they move up).

Maybe add to the thumbnail "floats":

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display: block;

something like this:

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<div style="float: left; width: 50px; display: block;">

[lady_witchcraft]

thx dexxus for your suggestions!!! it works fine now 'cause i've upgraded the phpwcms version from 1.2.5 to 1.2.8 and the RT does exactly what expected - it works

by the way, again BIG THANKS to erich & cyrano for their help and their time!!!

sunny greetings from vienna - claudia

P.S: thx dexxus for the hint that the image ID should or must begin with letters instead of numbers, i'll correct that - but has nothing to do with the RT - just with the javascript i use for the lefthand navigation through the categories (print and so on...)