Display two column news on your front page.

There are mods that can do this but in most cases they require more work than needed. I will teach you how to display those cool two column news on your phpnuke front page.

Files to edit:
modules/News/index.php

Steps :
The first thing we will do is define the amount of columns we need to show per row. In this case we need 2. Open modules/News/index.php and find the following lines of codes on about line 66. Some nuke versions will have a slight variation of the codes.

$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, catid, aid, title,

Above that code place the following. We are creating a table that will display two columns per row of our database results.

echo '<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left">'; $itemsPerRow = 2; $count = 0;

Next will we will change the template output. This is basically what you see when you read those news on your front page. Find the following lines of codes.

themeindex($aid, $informant, $datetime, $title, $counter,

Above that code we will start our check to see if it's the first result and also which column is being displayed. We need to make sure if it's the first column that we make it 50% width then add another column beside it before starting a new row. Paste the following codes above the themeindex line.

if ($count % $itemsPerRow == 0) echo "<tr>\n"; $count++; echo '<td valign="top" height="100%" width="50%">';

Directly below the themeindex codes paste the following:

echo '</td>'; if ($count % $itemsPerRow == 0) echo "</tr>\n";

Finally we need to close the table we created. Find the include("footer.php"): which is located a couple lines down and paste the following above it.

echo '</table><br clear="all" />';

That's it! Enjoy and please Back Up as usual before making any major changes.
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