News

News is CMS plugin to manage and show news on site page. It allow:

• Show news items on page
• Show news item topics
• Show news item selected by ID on separate page containing news item metadata as page metadata
• Expand / collapse news data content area
• Delegate news content to site search index
• Provide news RSS service

Plugin data storage is located in folder /cms/data/plugins/news (may be changed) and contains files:

• conf.xml - XML file containing available topic list and base URL for news item selected by item ID on separate page
• id.xml - XML file containing news data; id - news id usually is language code (ex. eng.xml))
• other XML files containing news data with different id

Plugin delegates to site:

• js include file: cms-plugin-news.js containing cms_plugin_news() jQuery plugin
• css include file: cms-plugin-news.css
• Smarty template plugin {cms_plugin_news}
• Smarty template plugin {cms_plugin_news_rss}
• php class cms\plugin\news\content which helps to provide news data content for local search index

News items in several pages are filtered using page optional data key pairs:

• 2014: news => year=2014 (filtering by year = 2014)
• Actual: news => topic=act (filtering by assigned topic id = 'act'); breaking news always are actual
• Archive: news => topic=arc (filtering by assigned topic id = 'arc')
• All: no optional data defined

jQuery plugin docs available at cms_plugin_news()

Smarty template plugin docs available at {cms_plugin_news}

Smarty template plugin for RSS docs available at {cms_plugin_news_rss}