How to create a News Detail Page

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1

Hallo all,
I added a lot of fields to the news in the backend.

Now the news should be shown in a list view and in a detail view.
The list view works in oxid per default (tpl/page/info/news.tpl).

but now i also need a template news_detail.tpl to show just the details of a single news…

Basically I wonder how I create the links that will open then the detail page and I have to send a parameter (the ID of the news to be shown).

Is there any further configuration needed?

Kind regards,
Florian

2

all you need is to create a new View Class which would display the one of your news, something like “newsdetails”. For the beginning you can copy a existing View Class, e.g. “content” and edit/combine it with the news View to display a single news the way you want.

And you need a template for this view Class, which would display the details the way you want.

Just start with understanding the news view.

3

hey vanilla thunder,
thank you that worked quite well so far.

I´ve created /views/newsdetail.php
and
/out/mytemplate/tpl/page/info/newsdetail.tpl

In newsdetail.php I´ve put a function that does the db-request and returns an news object with all the properties that I need:

	
public function getNewsById($id){
    	$oDB = oxDb::getDb(true);
	$query = "SELECT * FROM oxnews WHERE oxid = '" .$id."'";
    	$row = $oDB->Execute( $query );
    	$news = new stdClass();
    	$news->titel = $row->fields["OXSHORTDESC"];
    	$news->datum = $row->fields["OXDATE"];
    	return $news;
}

and then I can use it in the tpl file like this:

[{assign var=“nid” value=$smarty.get.nid}]
[{assign var=“news” value=$oView->getNewsById($nid)}]
[{$news->titel}]

and finally the link to call the detail site looks like that:
[{assign var=“nid” value=$oNews->oxnews__oxid->value}]
<a href="[{ $oViewConf->getSelfLink()|oxaddparams:“nid=$nid&cl=newsdetail” }]">Weiterlesen</a>

Kind regards,
Florian

4

Hello,…
I found a little problem… the BreadCrumb does not work properly - contains just one link and it is wrong…

So far I have in newsdetail.php the same Breadcrumb function as in news.php:


public function getBreadCrumb()
    {
        $aPaths = array();
        $aPath  = array();

        $aPath['title'] = oxLang::getInstance()->translateString( 'PAGE_INFO_NEWS_TITLE', oxLang::getInstance()->getBaseLanguage(), false );
        $aPath['link']  = $this->getLink();

        $aPaths[] = $aPath;

        return $aPaths;
    }
}

Is there a “cool” way to fix the breadcrumb, otherwise I will just get the news id from the parameters and do db request again to put to correct links in the breadcrumb.

Many thx,
Florian

5

i guess the bredcrub’s title is “nuigkeiten” and it points to the general news page, right?

the coolest way would be to fit

$aPath['title'] = oxLang::getInstance()->translateString( 'PAGE_INFO_NEWS_TITLE', oxLang::getInstance()->getBaseLanguage(), false );
        $aPath['link']  = $this->getLink();

to your needs, so it would display what ever you want to.

$aPath[‘title’] might be something like $news->titel