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ByteEnable

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I wanted a article nav similar to mambo, so here it is:

Add the new code to lib-story.php. Its in the STORY_renderArticle function, around line 126.

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if( $index == 'n' )
    {
// START NEW CODE
        $result = DB_query("SELECT `sid` FROM `gl_stories` WHERE `tid` = '" . $A['tid'] . "' AND `sid` < '" . $A['sid'] . "' ORDER BY `sid` DESC LIMIT 1");
        $PrevStory = DB_fetchArray($result);
        $result = DB_query("SELECT `sid` FROM `gl_stories` WHERE `tid` = '" . $A['tid'] . "' AND `sid` > '" . $A['sid'] . "' ORDER BY `sid` LIMIT 1");
        $NextStory = DB_fetchArray($result);

        $StoryNavTopic = ucfirst($A['tid']);
        if ( $PrevStory[0] == '' ) {
                $article->set_var('PrevStory','<td class="StoryNav"></td>');
        }
        else {
                $article->set_var('PrevStory','<td class="StoryNav"><BR><A title="Read previous article in “'. $StoryNavTopic . '”" class="PageNav" href="/article.php/'. $PrevStory[0] . '">«Prev</a></td>');
        }
        if ( $NextStory[0] == '' ) {
                $article->set_var('NextStory','<td class="StoryNav"></td>');
        }
        else {
                $article->set_var('NextStory','<td class="StoryNav"><BR><A title="Read next article in “' . $StoryNavTopic . '”" class="PageNav" href="/article.php/'. $NextStory[0] . '">Next»</a></td>');
        }
//END NEW CODE
        $article->set_var( 'story_title', stripslashes( $A['title'] ));

 


Next update your theme (storytext.thtml) with the PrevStory and NextStory variables.

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</tr>
{story_bodyhtml}
{PrevStory}{NextStory}
</table>

 


You will also need to edit your CSS with your own style. If anyone knows how to optimize those two MySQL queries, please share. You can see this in action at LinuxElectrons.
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Haven't tried it, but why are you sorting by "sid"? With the editable story IDs introduced in 1.3.10, the articles may come out in an odd order ... Better sort by date.

bye, Dirk
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ByteEnable

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Yeah, I looked at the date. But wouldn't I have convert that ASCII back to unix time format? If so, how easy is that?

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Nope, MySQL already does that for you. To quote from index.php:
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$sql .= "ORDER BY featured DESC, date DESC";
 

This is how the stories are sorted on the index page. No conversion necessary.

bye, Dirk
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Thanks for the tip Dirk. I've already implemented it. I just replaced all the 'sid' with date.
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Here is an update for the database queries for those that have used this code.

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 $result = DB_query("SELECT `sid` FROM `gl_stories` WHERE `tid` = '" . $A['tid'] . "' AND `date` < '" . $A['date'] . "' ORDER BY `date` DESC LIMIT 1");
        $PrevStory = DB_fetchArray($result);
        $FutureDate = date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", time() );
        $result = DB_query("SELECT `sid` FROM `gl_stories` WHERE `tid` = '" . $A['tid'] . "' AND `date` > '" . $A['date'] . "' AND `date` < '" . $FutureDate . "'ORDER BY `date` LIMIT 1");
        $NextStory = DB_fetchArray($result);

 
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