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[The Bearded One]

I love NewsListing. It is simple, understandable, and customizable. I've almost got it to do exactly what I need.

Here is my question.

How do you get it to stop putting a box around the text of each entry? Or better yet, how do you get it to put an <hr> at the bottom of each block of text instead of the box around the whole thing?

It would be wonderful if someone had the answer to this one.

Thanks

Gary

[jaredc]

Take a look at the following code compared to the original. Notice (on or about line 36) the Legend and Fieldset tags removed- and an <hr /> tag inserted. This should get you close to what you want, but I admit I didn't test this code because I'm on my way out the door...

$resourceparent = isset($newsid) ? $newsid : $etomite->documentIdentifier;
         // the folder that contains blog entries 
$output = '';
         // initialise the blog variable 
$nrblogs = 3;
         // nr of blogs to show a short portion of 
$nrblogstotal = 100;
         // total nr of blogs to retrieve 
$lentoshow = 150;
         // how many characters to show of blogs 

$resource = $etomite->getActiveChildren($resourceparent, 'createdon', 'DESC', $fields='id, pagetitle, description, content, createdon, createdby');
$limit=count($resource);
if($limit<1) { 
   $output .= "No entries found.<br />"; 
} 
$nrblogs = $nrblogs<$limit ? $nrblogs : $limit; 
if($limit>0) { 
   for ($x = 0; $x < $nrblogs; $x++) { 
   $tbl = $this->dbConfig['dbase'].".".$this->dbConfig['table_prefix']."manager_users";
      $sql = "SELECT username FROM $tbl WHERE $tbl.id = ".$resource[$x]['createdby']; 
      $rs2 = $etomite->dbQuery($sql);
      $limit2 = $etomite->recordCount($rs2); 
      if($limit2<1) { 
         $username .= "anonymous"; 
      } else { 
         $resourceuser = $etomite->fetchRow($rs2); 
         $username = $resourceuser['username']; 
         // strip the content 
         if(strlen($resource[$x]['content'])>$lentoshow) { 
            $rest = substr($resource[$x]['content'], 0, $lentoshow); 
            $rest .= "...<br />    <a href='".$resource[$x]['id'].".html'>More on this story ></a>"; 
         } else { 
            $rest = $resource[$x]['content']; 
         } 
         $output .= "<div>".$resource[$x]['pagetitle']."</div><div".$rest."<div style='text-align:right;'>Author: <b>".$username."</b> on ".strftime("%d-%m-%y %H:%M:%S", $resource[$x]['createdon'])."</div><hr />"; 
      } 
   } 
} 

if($limit>$nrblogs) { 
   $output .= "<br /><br /><b>Older news</b><br />"; 
   for ($x = $nrblogs; $x < $limit; $x++) { 
      $output .= "> <a href='".$resource[$x]['id'].".html'>".$resource[$x]['pagetitle']."</a><br />";          
   } 
}

return $output;

[The Bearded One]

Jared,

That did the trick.

Now it's exactly the way I wanted.

Thanks.

Gary

PS - I love Etomite. This is a great program.