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Remove Title

finanssansfinanssans New
edited April 2013 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hi. I want to show the question itself, and not just the title on the main page. I also want to remove "title".

Heres is some examples:

Thanks for all help i can get!

Comments

  • KasperKasper Vanilla Staff
    edited April 2013

    How about changing "Tittel" to "Sammendrag" instead? Or "Spørsmål" for that matter if it makes more sense.

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  • finanssansfinanssans New

    but that does not help if i want the users to see the actual question, not just a title.

  • KasperKasper Vanilla Staff
    edited April 2013

    What it would do is encourage them to type in the actual question as the title

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  • finanssansfinanssans New

    That could work. But then i still got two boxes, and that is confusing for the visitors. It must be something i can change so that it displays the question and not the title, but i can't seem to find it.

  • businessdadbusinessdad MVP

    Display Discussion body instead of Title

    Modify your theme to display the discussion body. In file vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php, replace

    <?php echo Anchor($DiscussionName, $DiscussionUrl, 'Title'); ?>

    with

    <?php
  // TODO Improvement - Truncate Discussion body after a specific amount of characters
  $DiscussionBody = Gdn_Format::Text($Discussion->Body, false);
  echo Anchor($DiscussionBody, $DiscussionUrl, 'Title');
?>

    Remove Title field from the New Post form

    Title is a required field, it cannot be left empty. You can hide it using CSS, if you like, but you must then implement a handler for DiscussionModel::BeforeSaveDiscussion event to fill it before saving the Post.

    Example (untested)

    public function DiscussionModel_BeforeSaveDiscussion_Handler($Sender) {
  $FormPostValues = &$Sender->EventArguments['FormPostValues'];

  $FormPostValues['Name'] = 'Some value for the title';
}

    Suggestion

    If you combine the two solutions, you can solve both problems in one shot, with less work. Here's what you could do.

    1- Hide the Discussion Title from the New Post with CSS
    2- Transform the Discussion Title into an excerpt of its body

    public function DiscussionModel_BeforeSaveDiscussion_Handler($Sender) {
  $FormPostValues = &$Sender->EventArguments['FormPostValues'];

  // Extract an excerpt of 50 characters from the Discussion body
  $DiscussionBodyExcerpt = substr(Gdn_Format::Text($FormPostValues['Body'], false), 0, 50);
  $FormPostValues['Name'] = $DiscussionBodyExcerpt;
}

    This way, you do not need to change vanilla/views/discussions/helper_functions.php. The Discussion title will be displayed as usual, but it will contain a snippet of the body.

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  • x00x00 MVP
    edited April 2013

    it is possible to do with a plugin or themehook. You would have to format the substituted title as Text only and truncate it.

    You could use DiscussionModel_BeforeSaveDiscussion_Handler

    You would change the Name field e.g. $Args['FormPostValues']['Name'] = SliceString(Gdn_Format::Text($Args['FormPostValues']['Body']),100);

    You could then hide the form field.

    That is pretty much all the help I can give you.

    grep is your friend.

  • finanssansfinanssans New

    Thank you so much businessdad! It now displays the body. Great! I think i can stick with the title after all.

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