New listings show on homepag

[spuby]

Hi,
I've just started playing with omega (esyndicat v 1.6) and I'm using the Glassy template. I've looked through the forums but cannot find how to:
- add the latest 4/5 new listings to the homepage so that they're shown under the categories.

Could someone please let me know how I could achieve this? Thank you.

Hi spuby and welcome to our forum!

Please apply directives:

Open index.php file
Find code:

$gDirSmarty->assign_by_ref('listings', $listings);

ADD code before

$new_listings = $Listing->getLatest( 0,5 );
$c = count($new_listings);
for($i=0; $i < $c; $i++)
{
	if(!empty($new_listings[$i]['path']))
	{
		$new_listings[$i]['path'] .= '/';
	}
}
$gDirSmarty->assign('new_listings', $new_listings);

WHERE '5' number of new listings in this block.

Then open templates/Your_template/index.tpl file

Find categories code there

{if $categories}
	{include file="box-header.tpl" caption=$lang.categories}
		{$categories}
	{include file="box-footer.tpl"}
{/if}

After add

{if $new_listings}
	{include file="box-header.tpl" caption=$lang.new_listings}
		<div class="listings">
			<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			{foreach from=$new_listings item=listing}
				{include file="listing-display.tpl"}						
			{/foreach}
			</table>
		</div>
	{include file="box-footer.tpl"}
{/if}

[spuby]

Thank you! This worked perfectly.

[spuby]

Hi,
Actually I spoke too soon. Now the New listings show on the maing page correctly, but the link for Listing Details gives a 404. I use mod_rewrite so the url should be categorypath/title-something.html, instead on the homepage is categorypathtitle-something.html (the / is missing). Do you have any ideas how I could correct this?

Thank you.

Add

$c = count($new_listings);
for($i=0; $i < $c; $i++)
{
	if(!empty($new_listings[$i]['path']))
	{
		$new_listings[$i]['path'] .= '/';
	}
}

After

$new_listings = $Listing->getLatest( 0,5 );

I have edited my previous post also.

[spuby]

Hi,
Thank you, that worked and the link is correct now. However, it seems that now the New Listings section shows on every category page too, can it be shown only on the main page?

Sorry for troubling you that much.

[Vladimir T.]

Hi,

Originally Posted by spuby

Hi,
can it be shown only on the main page?

You should edit index.tpl.

{$category.id eq 0}
{if $new_listings}
	{include file="box-header.tpl" caption=$lang.new_listings}
		<div class="listings">
			<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
			{foreach from=$new_listings item=listing}
				{include file="listing-display.tpl"}						
			{/foreach}
			</table>
		</div>
	{include file="box-footer.tpl"}
{/if}
{if}

[spuby]

This time it all worked. Thank you.

P.S. Actually in your code there should be a starting {if} for the category match, but I figured it out. Thanks.

[Vladimir T.]

You a welcome.

[dtp3]

Omega 1.6 - when I use this code page is blank , what is wrong ?