How to Display Discussion from all the Categories except one on Discussions page?

sahotataran

sure @ddumont - i will be submitting the working example and also the demo URL soon - as soon as i finish out with the layout and stuff - CSS. i will send you the whole code i had used and then you can consider it putting into your working example of NillaBlog.

Thanks

sahotataran

@ddumont i had a quick question - is there anyway i can set the number of discussions to be displayed on the BLOG category page?
e.g generally we set the number of discussions we can show on category page through Dashboard->Forum->Advanced
but suppose if it choose 50 there and if we try to display 50 posts in NillaBlog Category then the page is going to get very very long.
so is there anyway we can restrict the BLOG category page discussions count to only 10 or 15?????
Thanks

ddumont

NillaBlog has an option in the plugin config that lets you say how many posts you want to display instead of the global number, yes.

sahotataran

Thanks ddumont i just downloaded the latest version. thanks again.
i have a hack to display images if a user attaches an image with the post. shall i pm to u?

x00

This is not very MVC, You are using a view for your logic. Views should be kept clean and should only concern display issues (and some formatting issues too). There are some forgiveable exceptions but this is way overboard.

Likely there is better way to do this.

x00

DisscussionModel_BeforeGet_Handler

You should be able to set

$Sender->SQL->Limit($Limit, $Offset); over-riding the default.

also wheres

You can use if(strtolower($Sender->RequestMethod) != 'index') return; before that.

Have a look a class.discussionmodel.php Get you see the BeforeGet event, you even have wheres event args

sahotataran

@ddumont
i restricted my home page to display only 10 latest posts which are not from my BLOG category using the hook in themes as below:

 public function DiscussionsController_Render_Before($Sender) {
		$this->_AddButton($Sender, 'NewDiscussionModule');
		$pageURL = 'http'; if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";} $pageURL .= "://"; if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; } else {  $pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; }
		 if ($pageURL == 'MY HOME PAGE URL') {
		 $Offset = 0;
		 $Limit = 10;
		 $Whereas = array("CategoryID <>" => 'MY BLOG CATEGORY ID' );
		 $DiscussionModel = new DiscussionModel();
		 $Sender->DiscussionData = $DiscussionModel->Get($Offset, $Limit, $Whereas);
		 $CountDiscussions = count($DiscussionModel->Get($Offset, $Limit, $Whereas));
		 $Sender->Data('Discussions', $Sender->DiscussionData);
		 $Sender->SetData('CountDiscussions', $CountDiscussions);
		/* ======= this was the code given by x00 =========
list($Page, $Limit) = OffsetLimit(10, 0);
    $Discussions = $Sender->Data('Discussions');			   
			  $DiscussionsFiltered =array();
				foreach($Discussions As  $Discussion ){
				if($Discussion->Category!=='articles'){
					$DiscussionsFiltered[]=$Discussion;
				}
				}
				$DiscussionsLeft = count($DiscussionsFiltered);
				//$DiscussionsFiltered =  new Gdn_DataSet($DiscussionsFiltered);
					 $Sender->DiscussionData =$DiscussionsFiltered;
				  $Sender->Data('Discussions',$DiscussionsFiltered); 
===============================*/
		}

}