Auto short story

[FI-DD]

Automatically creates the short story from the full story.

By default the short story will show 100 characters.



Installation:

1. Open auto-short-story and change $max = 100; as you like.

2. Upload the plugin to plugins/ folder and activate it.

3. Open skins/cute.js and replace this:

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      elem.name == "short_story"

   || elem.name == "poster"

with this:

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      elem.name == "poster"

[flyboy17]

It's a great plugin.

But when I add a text and leave the 'short story' field empty, I still get a warning that the 'short story must contain a value'.

[marten]

FI-DD pleas I need your help in auto-short-story $max = 100; but the problem it cut the last word I tried to change many times $max but still it cut the last word in short story.
Example for short story
this is a good and great pulgins thanks for your eff...
here is the probem the word effort is eff...
please advise
Thanks in advance

[FI-DD]

Yes, it's because the plugin cuts the text after 100 characters. The script doesn't know if the last word is complete or not - it just counts to 100 and then cuts it off.

[marten]

Thanks FI-DD

[marten]

Please FI-DD I need some help some times I need when I add a new news to add a picture and a text around the text in short story so when I did that I found that the autoshort overwrite what I did in the short story and cut after 100 characters so how I can solve this problem please?
Thanks in advance

[scottdallas]

I finally found out why I had so much trouble with this all this time. I did some testing. First, after changing cute.js as FI-DD instructed above, you need to clear your browser cache or it will continue to tell you that you need to fill in a value in your {short-story}... second.. this will only work on NEW content items you add to your site. Existing content will have to be readded or truncated manually. I edited a news item, erased {short-story} value, checked, it was still blank.. I then added a new content item from scratch and it truncated properly.

Just thought someone might find a little heads-up useful

[scottdallas]

Hey FI-DD.. is it possible to make this work with the 'Guest can add news' hack? I noticed when the {full-story} is entered.. it does not put the info into the {short-story}, it leaves it blank.

[FI-DD]

Just add something like this to the code:

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if($short_story == ''){$short_story = substr($full_story, 0, 100).'...';}

[scottdallas]

Cool, thanks! You always make it seem so simple.

[DistantJ]

Those of you having trouble with "Short story must contain a value", look here:

http://forums.cutenewsru.com/wysiwyg--u ... t2924.html

[DistantJ]

Scott, here's one I've edited so you can apply it to your old news without re-adding it. Now if you edit a post and empty the Short Story field, when you click "Edit" it'll overwrite it's short story with a truncated full story.

Also, my version will only make an auto short story if the short story field is empty. This means you can go back and fix up any truncated HTML tags and such, or replace the short story manually.

Obviously, change the number of letters in there, I have it at 2000.