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 = 2005030800;
   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($COURSE->id, 'news')) {
  32                 return '';
  33             }
  34
  35             if (!$cm = get_coursemodule_from_instance('forum', $forum->id, $COURSE->id)) {
  36                 return '';
  37             }
  38
  39             $context = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_MODULE, $cm->id);
  40
  41         /// First work out whether we can post to this group and if so, include a link
  42             $groupmode    = groupmode($COURSE, $cm);
  43             $currentgroup = get_and_set_current_group($COURSE, $groupmode);
  44
  45
  46             if (forum_user_can_post_discussion($forum, $currentgroup, $groupmode, $cm, $context)) {
  47                 $text .= '<div class="newlink"><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/mod/forum/post.php?forum='.$forum->id.'">'.
  48                           get_string('addanewtopic', 'forum').'</a>...</div>';
  49             }
  50
  51         /// Get all the recent discussions we're allowed to see
  52
  53             if (! $discussions = forum_get_discussions($forum->id, 'p.modified DESC', 0, false,
  54                                                        $currentgroup, $COURSE->newsitems) ) {
  55                 $text .= '('.get_string('nonews', 'forum').')';
  56                 $this->content->text = $text;
  57                 return $this->content;
  58             }
  59
  60         /// Actually create the listing now
  61
  62             $strftimerecent = get_string('strftimerecent');
  63             $strmore = get_string('more', 'forum');
  64
  65         /// Accessibility: markup as a list.
  66             $text .= "\n<ul class='unlist'>\n";
  67             foreach ($discussions as $discussion) {
  68
  69                 $discussion->subject = $discussion->name;
  70
  71                 $discussion->subject = format_string($discussion->subject, true, $forum->course);
  72
  73                 $text .= '<li class="post">'.
  74                          '<div class="head">'.
  75                          '<div class="date">'.userdate($discussion->modified, $strftimerecent).'</div>'.
  76                          '<div class="name">'.fullname($discussion).'</div></div>'.
  77                          '<div class="info">'.$discussion->subject.' '.
  78                          '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/mod/forum/discuss.php?d='.$discussion->discussion.'">'.
  79                          $strmore.'...</a></div>'.
  80                          "</li>\n";
  81             }
  82             $text .= "</ul>\n";
  83
  84             $this->content->text = $text;
  85
  86             $this->content->footer = '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/mod/forum/view.php?f='.$forum->id.'">'.
  87                                       get_string('oldertopics', 'forum').'</a> ...';
  88
  89         /// If RSS is activated at site and forum level and this forum has rss defined, show link
  90             if (isset($CFG->enablerssfeeds) && isset($CFG->forum_enablerssfeeds) &&
  91                 $CFG->enablerssfeeds && $CFG->forum_enablerssfeeds && $forum->rsstype && $forum->rssarticles) {
  92                 require_once($CFG->dirroot.'/lib/rsslib.php');   // We'll need this
  93                 if ($forum->rsstype == 1) {
  94                     $tooltiptext = get_string('rsssubscriberssdiscussions','forum',format_string($forum->name));
  95                 } else {
  96                     $tooltiptext = get_string('rsssubscriberssposts','forum',format_string($forum->name));
  97                 }
  98                 if (empty($USER->id)) {
  99                     $userid = 0;
 100                 } else {
 101                     $userid = $USER->id;
 102                 }
 103                 $this->content->footer .= '<br />'.rss_get_link($COURSE->id, $userid, 'forum', $forum->id, $tooltiptext);
 104             }
 105
 106         }
 107
 108         return $this->content;
 109     }
 110 }
 111
 112 ?>