Quick Tips :)

[inspireme]

Heres some stuff that smarty can help with to make your site a bit more polished.


On new and updated block replace <%$new_links[i].description%> with :

<%$new_links[i].description|truncate:300%><a href="<%$new_links[i].detail_page_url%>" id="link_<%$new_links[i].link_id%>"> [more] </a>

this stops huge descriptions, and lets you limit how much space is taken up on your main page. It trims to 300 characters, then places a [more] link underneath

Dont just use <%$title%> use :

  <%$title|lower|capitalize%>

Stops people DOING ALL CAPS or all lower case. Correctly Capitalize Your Title

for some reason you get the <br> tags in descriptions come out as "<br>" instead of actual line breaks on the front page. Solve it with :

<%$variable|strip_tags%>

anyone got any other neat smarty tips?

[althahabi]

very nice you realy inspire me!

keep going...... we need your smart tips !

[dody]

I was looking for truncate but i can't get it until you mention it here. Thanks.

I have another tips how to count words. I use this for my article directory at heavyarms.net:

<%$number%>. <a href="<%$detail_page_url%>" id="link_<%$link_id%>"><%$title%></b></a>
by <%$contact_name%> (<%$content|count_words%> words)

[inspireme]

thats a neat one