Displaying Articles on a page (other than front page)

[Tarren]

I am trying to display some articles on a page other than the front page.

I create an article then top menu item for that article, I also tick the "show all articles in same category" checkbox.

When I click the menu Item, I am teken to the article but the other articles show up as links inside that article. I would like all the articles to be available with that article not as links.

I am using smf 1.1.3, TP .98 and Azure theme.

I am not sure if this is a theme related or TP issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Ken.]

Tarren could you give more detail on what kind of article structure you're trying to achieve?

Also a link would be helpful so that we can see what you have worked out so far.

Thanks... Ken.

[Tarren]

Thanks, it's in maintenance mode at the moment, should be able to provide a link later.

Not sure what else to say, just need articles in the same category to display in full under each other.

[Ken.]

Not sure what else to say, just need articles in the same category to display in full under each other.

With current versions of TinyPortal I don't think that you will be able to have two or more articles appear on the same page except for the front page and as you noted earlier that's not what you want.
I could be wrong about that and if so someone should be able to give us better information soon.

Have you given any thought to the possibility of having the content from two different articles placed into one and using some kind of 'divider' to separate the two, like maybe a line break?


There may be a way to do this using iFrames but you might not like the way it displays the pages/articles. If you think you might be interested in trying that approach let me know.

[Ken.]

Just tried the article in an iFrame idea and it works, however each article displays all of the page header info including the link bar and thats not good because if someone is viewing the page and uses the links that are inside the iFrame (at the top of each article) it will then pull the page for that link into the iFrame.

You can take a look at the link below if you wish.


Articles in iFrame

[Ianedres]

The only method I am aware of is related to using the categories to classify the articles.

When you provide a link directly to the category itself (your URL + ?cat=x), it will list all the articles that are based in that category.

Hope that helps.

[Ianedres]

And you can find out what category number to use by looking at admin/articles- each category section header will display the number when you hover the mouse over the section. It will be the number at the end of the status line message in your browser.