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hello!
error:
pagina web:
Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION' or `T_FUNCTION' or `T_VAR' or `'}'' in W:wwwjoomlacomponentscom_contentcontent.html.php on line 1520

what I made bad?

I replaced this lines
line 516
with these lines:
line 516

Funciona muy bien!! it works very well!
what to do so that it does the same in the option ?Blog? of menu?

always been thankful

Hi!
It doesn't work
I try to insert very long intro text but I see every charcaters before "Read more"
I used the file for joomla 1.0.12

Hi!!
The problem is that I'm developing the site in local. Moreover it would be not usefull to paste the code because is just the file you uploaded

Mmmm, just a moment. Let's talk about how I tried this.
I have a CATEGORY CONTENT - BLOG VIEW link in the user menu. So when I click on it I see the articles in blog mode. But the introduction text is still there and it's not cutted. I tried to delete the introtext and write it again, but nothing to do.

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what to do so that it does the same (to Control the "Read More") in the option ?Blog? of menu?

gracias

its good in frontpage but how to make it available also in blog view of category main page

An easy way to also do this is to use the AlphaContent component. There is actually an option to choose how many words to include for the intro.

Can i have the file for the 1.0.13 version please ?

but is there anyway to hack the "read more" to "click to read more about 'title'",like http://www.compassdesigns.net/

There's another way to do this. Instead under the content.php file. You can find where it assigns the $row->introtext for output under the method show().

Replace:
$row->text = $row->introtext. ( $params->get( 'intro_only' ) ? '' : chr(13) . chr(13) . $row->fulltext);

With:
$words = 50;
$wordCount = count(explode(" ",$row->introtext));
$words = 20 $words; // this is an estimate of how many words occupy an image tag
if ($wordCountintrotext;
} else {
$adjustedText = implode(" ", array_slice(explode(" ",$row->introtext), 0, $words));
}

$row->text = $adjustedText. ( $params->get( 'intro_only' ) ? '' : chr(13) . chr(13) . $row->fulltext);

Note that I add 20 words to everything because on the site I built there's generally an image with the intro text right before the text starts, floated left. So I'm trying to get closer to the actual word count by starting off 20 deep.

If there's extra tweaking needed, you can do so this way by also including in the XML file a new parameter for number of words. This can then be retrieved with the $params->get('name_of_param'); that you see all over the place.Note though that the normals params here are from the menu, you'll have to call new params I did so by putting in: $article_params = new mosParameters( $row->attribs ); ... but then you also have to go up higher to the other functions that put together the text for output (fontpage is one method, showBlogSection is another, etc.) and make sure the main sql query (and it's commented as the main sql query) includes a.attribs so the attribs field gets called for use.

Yea, that's a little involved, but it's not so bad. Anyway, for simplicity you can just keep manually changing the word count in the code if you like.

How can you control the number of words displayed before the "Read more.." in other areas of a site, but not affect the front page?

For example, let's assume a site has 10 distinct sections. Each of these sections has its own section sub-menu to access that section's specifc content. Each section has an introductory page that should not be limited to 60 words, but the user submitted content (which is accessible via the submenu(s) should be limited to 60 words. I can a provide a url with an example if necessary.

doesn't worked
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/goldnir/public_html/warezworldwide.com/components/com_content/content.html.php on line 3058

any thoughts on how to get it to work with joomla! 1.0.14?

is tis possible to use for joomla 1.5 and what steps are needed. thanks

is there anyone know a link or article contain this modification for Joomla 1.5 versions?

Hi Again I made something more useful I think
For Joomla 1.0.X
replace this code :

// displays Item Text
echo ampReplace( $row->text );

with :

$limit =100;
if (strlen(ampReplace( $row->text )) > $limit) {
echo (substr(ampReplace( $row->text ), 0, $limit)) . " ... ";
}
else {
echo ampReplace( $row->text );
}

just change the 100 variable to whatever you want

for Joomla 1.5.X

open :
componentscom_contentviewscategory mpllog_item.php // for category

or open :
componentscom_contentviewsrontpage mpldefault_item.php // for frontpage

and change :


to:


that's it

Search for :

change it to :

and sorry for my last comment cause I forget to add them between quota practices