Simple snippets

This section contains snippets making EXT:news more awesome which might be useful for your projects as well.

Improved back links

The back link on a detail page is a fixed link to a given page. However it might be that you use multiple list views and want to change the link depending on the given list view.

A nice solution would be to use this JavaScript jQuery snippet:

if ($(".news-backlink-wrap a").length > 0) {
        if(document.referrer.indexOf(window.location.hostname) != -1) {
                $(".news-backlink-wrap a").attr("href","javascript:history.back();").text('Back');
        }
}

Render category rootline

If you want to show not only the title of a single category which is related to the news item but the complete category rootline use this snippets.

<f:if condition="{category:newsItem.firstCategory}">
        <ul class="category-breadcrumb">
                <f:render section="categoryBreadcrumb" arguments="{category:newsItem.firstCategory}" />
        </ul>
</f:if>

and

<f:section name="categoryBreadcrumb">
        <f:if condition="{category}">
                <f:if condition="{category.parentCategory}">
                        <f:render section="categoryBreadcrumb" arguments="{category:category.parentCategory}" />
                </f:if>
                <li>{category.title}</li>
        </f:if>
</f:section>

Use current content element in the Template

If you ever need information from the content element itself, you can use {contentObjectData.header}.