[SOLVED] Full text in Leading article?

[alekks]

Hi,

I'm working on a site for a client where we're using a category blog-layout.
This is configured to show 1 leading article and 4 intro articles in two columns and then a couple of links.

These articles are quite long all of them so my client will always be using the read more-break on every article. Though, we always want the latest article (leading article) to show full text, in other words; ignore the read more. But when my client adds a new article the read more break will be activated as the article will move from leading to intro article.

I've already have got some specific outputs conditioned on if it's a leading or intro article, so what I need is just a way to call the full text in the category blog view... But how do I do this?

I read in a forum post that I could use $this->item->fulltext instead of $this->item->introtext. But it displays nothing when I try that.

I really appriciate all the help!

Thanks a lot!

[imanickam]

If an article contains the ReadMore tag, then the content is stored as follows:
introtext -> Text before the ReadMore tag
fulltext -> Text after the ReadMore tag

If an article does not contain the ReadMore tag, then the content is stored as follows:
introtext -> Full text of the article
fulltext -> NOTHING would be stored here

[alekks]

Thank you for your answer!

So if I understand this correctly this should write the full article:

if leading article == true {
echo $this->item->introtext;
echo $this->item->fulltext;
}

But it just displays text before ReadMore...

[imanickam]

Which file are you changing?

Hope you are following output override technique as documented at http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_override_ ... omla!_core.

Also, try the following:
Add the following line of code in the file articles.php located in the directory \components\com_content\models. Add it as line 164.

Code: Select all

				'a.fulltext, ' .

Note: Make a copy of the file before editing it.

[alekks]

Thank you very much imanickam! This helped me a lot!

I now see the both "parts" of the article!

Cheers!

[rrr2rrr]

Thank you very much! Awesome solution!