contenido\classes\class.article.php

This object represents a Contenido article

Create object with $obj = new Article(idart, client, lang [, idartlang]);

You can now read the article properties with $obj->getField(property);

List of article properties:

idartlang - Language dependant article id idart - Language indepenant article id idclient - Id of the client idtplcfg - Template configuration id title - Internal Title pagetitle - HTML Title summary - Article summary created - Date created lastmodified - Date lastmodiefied author - Article author (username) online - On-/offline redirect - Redirect redirect_url - Redirect URL artsort - Article sort key timemgmt - Time management datestart - Time management start date dateend - Time management end date status - Article status free_use_01 - Free to use free_use_02 - Free to use free_use_03 - Free to use time_move_cat - Move category after time management time_target_cat - Move category to this cat after time management time_online_move - Set article online after move external_redirect - Open article in new window locked - Article is locked for editing

You can extract article content with the $obj->getContent(contype [, number]) method.

To extract the first headline you can use:

$headline = $obj->getContent("htmlhead", 1);

If the second parameter is ommitted the method returns an array with all available content of this type. The array has the following schema:

array( number => content );

$headlines = $obj->getContent("htmlhead");

$headlines[1] First headline $headlines[2] Second headline $headlines[6] Sixth headline

Legal content type string are defined in the Contenido system table 'con_type'. Default content types are:

NOTE: This parameter is case insesitive, you can use html or cms_HTML or CmS_HtMl. Your don't need start with cms, but it won't crash if you do so.

htmlhead - HTML Headline html - HTML Text headline - Headline (no HTML) text - Text (no HTML) img - Upload id of the element imgdescr - Image description link - Link (URL) linktarget - Linktarget (_self, _blank, _top ...) linkdescr - Linkdescription swf - Upload id of the element

This class is used to manage multiple Contenido article objects in a collection.

The constructor awaits an associative array as parameter with the following schema:

array( string paramname => mixed value );

The parameter idcat is required: array('idcat'=>n)

Legal parameter names are:

idcat - Contenido Category Id lang - Language Id, active language if ommited client - Client Id, active client if ommited start - include start article in the collection, defaults to false artspecs - Array of article specifications, which should be considered order - articles will be orderered by this article property, defaults to 'created' direction - Order direcion, 'asc' or 'desc' for ascending/descending, defaults to 'asc' limit - Limit numbers of articles in collection

You can easy create article lists/teasers with this class.

To create an article list of category 4 (maybe a news category) use:

$myList = new ArticleCollection(array("idcat"=>4);

while ($article = $myList->nextArticle()) { // Fetch the first headline $headline = $article->getContent('htmlhead', 1); $idart = $article->getField('idart');

// Create a link echo ''.$headline.'<br/>'; }