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Written by Ray Gilman
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
Author Articles Scroller (AAS)
Experimental. I've been playing around with an article site I've realized that Joomla
doesn't offer some necessary tools. The ability to have your Author's articles
show up, once logged in; is a feature I find hard to live without. So, I've
taken some time to write this simple module. Hope you like it.
Description
Author Articles Scroller works when users log into your site. If the current
logged user has contributed articles to your site, then AAS will display those
articles in a scrollable box [ thanks to Dynamic Drive ], and with an
associated Edit and View link. This offers fast access to all of
the User's articles, but doesn't take up a lot of real estate.
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AAS Features
- Scroll options. AAS will display articles in static manner, but
allow you Up/Down scroll capability when there are too many articles to fit
the area allotted.
- Height and width control. With the aide of [ AA_Width ] and
[ AA_Height ] parameters you will be able to adjust the box area from
100x100 - 225x225 pixels.
- Title Character Amount Control. The [ AA_Cutoff ] parameters
limits the article titles from 10 - 30 characters.
- Sort on Four DB Columns. By using the [ AA_SortColumn ]
parameter AAS can sort on four columns [title, hits, created and modified]
from the content db, allowing for a good deal of display flexibility. Also,
with the [ AA_SortMethod ] parameters you can additionally adjust the
displayed output on oldest/largest or newest/smallest.
- ...or display random article output.
- ... and more. There are a few other parameters for some additional
tweaking.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 August 2009 )
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