How Can I Format Latest Files List addon?

[Walkman]

Hello,

I'm using ionFiles with the addons Latest Files and Popular Files, and the issue that I'm having is that when I create my files, the Latest addon doesn't list the files close enough. Below is an example:



but I would like the files to be listed like

.

Is it possible to do? If so, how do I format the file names to list like so?

Thanks for such a great product.


Kevin

[Jordan]

What is your site URL? You probably need to edit your CSS to have no margins or paddings top/bottom for links.

[Walkman]

What is your site URL? You probably need to edit your CSS to have no margins or paddings top/bottom for links.

Thanks for the quick reply.

My domain is Welcome to the Frontpage

I'm about 3 weeks into Joomla, and I am still trying to learn my way around it. So, not much of my content is on there yet. I haven't looked at the CSS file yet.

Is the CSS file in the ionFiles folder?

Kevin

[Walkman]

That's real slick how my url got converted into my page title when I posted the above. I never saw that before.

Cool.

Kevin

[Jordan]

It looks like you are using the version that Rolandd created. Send him a PM and he should be able to help. I can see it is trying to print the descriptions and adding a <br /> tag. There may be an option to disable descriptions.

[rolandd]

Hello,

You can change this in the file modules/mod_ionfileslatest.php. On line 80 it says:

		echo '</span><br />';

You can remove the <br /> tag there. The items should then show as you want.

[Walkman]

Hi Rolandd,

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried it and it notches it up just a tidbit, and the small separator is still visible. I'm still looking over the code and I at least know where to begin.

[UPDATE]

I've made these changes, and it's looking good, but now I need to clean it up and format it better.

Old Code:

{
	foreach ($filedetails as $id => $details) {
		echo '<a class="link" href="'.$mosConfig_live_site.'/index.php?option=com_ionfiles">'.$details['title'].'</a><br />';
		echo '<span class="description">';
		if (strlen($details['description']) > $description_length) echo substr($details['description'], 0, $description_length).'...';
		else echo $details['description'];
		echo '</span><br />';
		if ($show_divider && $affectedrows > 1) echo '<div class="hr"><hr /></div>';
	}

New Code: after removing the red areas from above.

{
	foreach ($filedetails as $id => $details) {
		echo '<a class="link" href="'.$mosConfig_live_site.'/index.php?option=com_ionfiles">'.$details['title'].'</a><br />';
		echo '<span class="description">';
		if (strlen($details['description']) > $description_length) echo substr($details['description'], 0, $description_length).'...';
		else echo $details['description'];
		echo '';
		if ($show_divider && $affectedrows > 1) echo '<div class="hr"></div>';
	}

and the results are:



Now I need to try a way to line them up properly and get rid of the pre-dots from the beginning.

Thanks again for your help.


Kevin