LATEST NEWS ENHANCED V1.2.

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All-in-one news/articles module presenting the latest, future, featured, popular or random articles in a consistent fashion with calendar or image.

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Table of Contents
Module Installation ............................................................................................................................................................... 2 Using the module .................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Anatomy of an article............................................................................................................................................................ 4 Calendar option................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Image option ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5 The list of options.................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Basic options ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Head options ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Body Options................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Advanced options ........................................................................................................................................................... 12 CSS3 and media queries ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 Additional information........................................................................................................................................................ 14

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Module Installation
Install the extension through the extension manager. It will update itself if the module has been previously installed. In case of an update, make sure you read the changes that have been made and are aware of potential backward compatibility issues. Important note: the module requires you to previously install the external library syw_lib.

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Using the module

Click on the Module Manager icon in the control panel or go to the menu Extensions -> Module Manager. Click on New. Select the Latest News Enhanced module to create an instance of it.

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Anatomy of an article

Calendar option

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Image option

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The list of options

Here is the list of available options for the module.

Basic options
Option Category(s) K2 Category(s) Sub-Categories Count Start At Ordering Featured articles Date When no date News width Paginate Items per page Link to article Link label Category Category link label Description select the Joomla! standard categories the articles are from (multiple select) select the K2 categories the articles are from (multiple select) automatically selects the next level or all levels of a category the max number of articles that will show (nothing will show all articles found) The item number to start from the order in which the articles are presented * random popular order added modified published - finished touched - title whether to show featured articles or not which date should be applied created - published modified - finished If the date is missing (finish publishing date only), show the article item or not do not show show before show after The width of each article block (%) Adds pagination to the list of items (enable jQuery if not done already on the site) The number of items to show per page of pagination whether to link to the article or not an optional label to use instead of the link's title show the category's name (will show for individual articles if the articles are from different categories, otherwise will show one link for all) a specific label to use instead of the article's name (ex: More news like this)

* if the date is missing when ordering by finish publishing date, the articles are ordered by start publishing date instead

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Head options
Option Head type Head alignment Image/calendar width Image/calendar height Default/calendar image Keep space Crop pictures Thumbnails Cache Path Reset pictures Show weekday Show year Show time Format time Description Image, calendar or nothing Show the image or calendar on the left, right or alternate them The width of the calendar or image The height of the calendar or image The image to use as background for the calendar or as a default image Keeps the space even if there is no image (and no default image) or no calendar to show Fit the image into the size selected, cropping it if needed. Otherwise it will show the full image with the selected size The temporary path for the thumbnails created (tmp is the default path) whether to re-create the image thumbnails every time the page is loaded or not (set to no for better performance in production, but set to yes for testing purposes) Show the weekday in the calendar (when selected as head type) Show the year in the calendar (when selected as head type) Show the time in the calendar (when selected as head type) The time format according to PHP as found in http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Warnings: The PHP GD extension (php_gd2) is required for the creation of image thumbnails. Make sure this extension is available on your service providers server. The PHP 'allow_url_fopen' setting must be enabled in order to access remote image files. Some hosts disable the option for security reasons. The module will detect these automatically.

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Body Options
Option Font size reference Letter count max title Title on one line Text introduction Letter count max Strip tags Keep tags Wrap Show hits Authors Show author Author name Show date Format date Hits/Author/Date pos. Description The reference size of the text for the whole item, except for the calendar head The max number of letters to show in the title Forces the title on one line only the text to show: article introduction - meta description the maximum number of letters to show (0 will show nothing, empty will show all) whether to strip the HTML tags or not (only available if the whole text is shown) when tags are allowed, keep only the ones specified (empty will keep all tags) (ex: <p><a><br> will keep new lines and links) Wrap the text around the head or not Show the hits for the article in question select from which authors the articles are written from: anyone me others show the author author's name, alias or username show the article's date or the number of days since it has been written or the number of days until the date (finish publishing dates only) The date format according to PHP as found in http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php where to put this information compared to the text: before the title before the text after the text

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Advanced options
Option
Load jQuery

jQuery version Show errors Simplified styles

Description Load the library if none is present already The jQuery version to use if enabled (uses the latest jQuery 1.8 by default) Will show the errors encountered while creating the news items, if any Set to yes to use a minimal stylesheet that only keeps the modules skeleton without the extra formatting. For developers only!

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CSS3 and media queries

Note that all CSS3-enabled styles have fallbacks for browsers that do not support them. Media queries are used to enhance the user experience in responsive websites. These media queries will have no effect in browsers that do not support them (like IE7/8).

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Additional information
Please visit the forum at http://www.simplifyyourweb.com/index.php/forum/16-latest-news-enhanced. For more options, upgrade to the commercial version: Latest News Enhanced Extended.

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