blocks/news_items/block_news_items.php

   1 <?PHP //$Id$
   2
   3 class block_news_items extends block_base {
   4     function init() {
   5         $this->title = get_string('latestnews');
   6         $this->version = 2007101509;
   7     }
   8
   9     function get_content() {
  10         global $CFG, $USER, $COURSE;
  11
  12         if ($this->content !== NULL) {
  13             return $this->content;
  14         }
  15
  16         $this->content = new stdClass;
  17         $this->content->text = '';
  18         $this->content->footer = '';
  19
  20         if (empty($this->instance)) {
  21             return $this->content;
  22         }
  23
  24
  25         if ($COURSE->newsitems) {   // Create a nice listing of recent postings
  26
  27             require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/mod/forum/lib.php');   // We'll need this
  28
  29             $text = '';
  30
  31             if (!$forum = forum_get_course_forum($COURSE->id, 'news')) {
  32                 return '';
  33             }
  34
  35             $modinfo = get_fast_modinfo($COURSE);
  36             if (empty($modinfo->instances['forum'][$forum->id])) {
  37                 return '';
  38             }
  39             $cm = $modinfo->instances['forum'][$forum->id];
  40
  41             $context = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_MODULE, $cm->id);
  42
  43         /// First work out whether we can post to this group and if so, include a link
  44             $groupmode    = groups_get_activity_groupmode($cm);
  45             $currentgroup = groups_get_activity_group($cm, true);
  46
  47
  48             if (forum_user_can_post_discussion($forum, $currentgroup, $groupmode, $cm, $context)) {
  49                 $text .= '<div class="newlink"><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/mod/forum/post.php?forum='.$forum->id.'">'.
  50                           get_string('addanewtopic', 'forum').'</a>...</div>';
  51             }
  52
  53         /// Get all the recent discussions we're allowed to see
  54
  55             if (! $discussions = forum_get_discussions($cm, 'p.modified DESC', false,
  56                                                        $currentgroup, $COURSE->newsitems) ) {
  57                 $text .= '('.get_string('nonews', 'forum').')';
  58                 $this->content->text = $text;
  59                 return $this->content;
  60             }
  61
  62         /// Actually create the listing now
  63
  64             $strftimerecent = get_string('strftimerecent');
  65             $strmore = get_string('more', 'forum');
  66
  67         /// Accessibility: markup as a list.
  68             $text .= "\n<ul class='unlist'>\n";
  69             foreach ($discussions as $discussion) {
  70
  71                 $discussion->subject = $discussion->name;
  72
  73                 $discussion->subject = format_string($discussion->subject, true, $forum->course);
  74
  75                 $text .= '<li class="post">'.
  76                          '<div class="head">'.
  77                          '<div class="date">'.userdate($discussion->modified, $strftimerecent).'</div>'.
  78                          '<div class="name">'.fullname($discussion).'</div></div>'.
  79                          '<div class="info">'.$discussion->subject.' '.
  80                          '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/mod/forum/discuss.php?d='.$discussion->discussion.'">'.
  81                          $strmore.'...</a></div>'.
  82                          "</li>\n";
  83             }
  84             $text .= "</ul>\n";
  85
  86             $this->content->text = $text;
  87
  88             $this->content->footer = '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/mod/forum/view.php?f='.$forum->id.'">'.
  89                                       get_string('oldertopics', 'forum').'</a> ...';
  90
  91         /// If RSS is activated at site and forum level and this forum has rss defined, show link
  92             if (isset($CFG->enablerssfeeds) && isset($CFG->forum_enablerssfeeds) &&
  93                 $CFG->enablerssfeeds && $CFG->forum_enablerssfeeds && $forum->rsstype && $forum->rssarticles) {
  94                 require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/lib/rsslib.php');   // We'll need this
  95                 if ($forum->rsstype == 1) {
  96                     $tooltiptext = get_string('rsssubscriberssdiscussions','forum',format_string($forum->name));
  97                 } else {
  98                     $tooltiptext = get_string('rsssubscriberssposts','forum',format_string($forum->name));
  99                 }
 100                 if (empty($USER->id)) {
 101                     $userid = 0;
 102                 } else {
 103                     $userid = $USER->id;
 104                 }
 105                 $this->content->footer .= '<br />'.rss_get_link($COURSE->id, $userid, 'forum', $forum->id, $tooltiptext);
 106             }
 107
 108         }
 109
 110         return $this->content;
 111     }
 112 }
 113
 114 ?>