Is it possible to add the featured image to articles, along with the "featured" text next to the article name? For example, I would like to add the image to the Golden Sun: Dark Dawn item as seen on this page:

 

dhoulmagus.nintendo-daily.com/news-info

Could sometime please help me out with this?

No, it is not possible within K2 to do this without custom programing.

Thanks for the reply, Terry. How much work would it take to have this done?

Terry A Britton said:
No, it is not possible within K2 to do this without custom programing.

Can you make a block picture in some graphic editor, how would it be ?
Or describe more detailed. You want an extra picture under detailed view ? Where precise, Height and width ? Etc ?

Sorry I completely missed what you were asking. You just want to add an image that says featured instead of just having the text. I'm almost out of editing time so let me look at a couple of things and I will post some suggestions.

If you look at this page, you'll see an item titled "Golden Sun: Dark Dawn." This is a featured item, but instead of displaying the image, it's displaying the word "featured." It happens because it's located on the next row in the layout grid. I'd like there to be an image, in the corner of that item instead of the word, like the large item on the top.

BBC said:
Can you make a block picture in some graphic editor, how would it be ? Or describe more detailed. You want an extra picture under detailed view ? Where precise, Height and width ? Etc ?

As Terry said, it demands new upload function in item manager. Beside that one that already exist.
Not so easy.

OK, I was hoping it would be easier to do than all of that. It's no biggie. At least now I know :D Thanks for the support, everyone!

BBC said:
As Terry said, it demands new upload function in item manager. Beside that one that already exist. Not so easy.

Did you make this huge spacing by purpose ? Or is it template problem.

Are you talking about between the rows?

BBC said:
Did you make this huge spacing by purpose ? Or is it template problem.

Yes, everything between date and autor name. (written by)

I see now. It´s only in Opera. Huge space.

I always laugh at people who completely miss the actual question being asked, and here I did the same thing.

 

You can use the following to insert an image in item.php or category_item.php based on whether it is featured or not:

 

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

<img class="featured-image" src="/stories/icons/featured.jpg" alt="featured article"></img>

<?php endif; ?>

 

You would put this in the template at a location where you want the image to be. Obviously your html for the image would be different. You would then just have to play around with the positioning and the css to get the exact look you want.

    

Now i get confused. I beleived he want different images for different items.
That´s why i asked for more details.

Cool! So it can be done with no major changes :D That's great. Is something you could help me out with, Terry? I'm not too good with that kind of stuff. If you tell me what to modify and for what files, I'm sure I can figure it out :D

Terry A Britton said:
I always laugh at people who completely miss the actual question being asked, and here I did the same thing.

 

You can use the following to insert an image in item.php or category_item.php based on whether it is featured or not:

 

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

<img class="featured-image" src="/stories/icons/featured.jpg" alt="featured article"></img>

<?php endif; ?>

 

You would put this in the template at a location where you want the image to be. Obviously your html for the image would be different. You would then just have to play around with the positioning and the css to get the exact look you want.

 

I'm getting ready to go on the road for a couple of weeks and won't be on the forum much, so I'll try to give you enough to get you started. I couldn't really see what you where talking about in the link you provided so I'll give you a couple of options. Firstly, you could display text over the image that says "Featured" or you could display an image in front of the other image that highlights the fact it is featured. If you do it with an image you will have to use z-index which allows you to stack items on top of each other, the higher the z-index the closer it is to the viewer.

 

The image in the category listing is wrapped by a div (catItemImageBlock). Within that same div in category_item.php you could put the following code. Sorry I can't give you an exact line number but my files are all heavily modified so the line numbers wouldn't match yours. Just search for catItemImageBlock.

 

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

<span class="featured">Featured</span>

<?php endif; ?>

 

You would then use css to position the text and style it the way you want to. I don't think you'll need z-index if you do it with text, but if you do, just put "z-index:99" in the css for featured. Backup your files before you start and hopefully someone else can step in if you have more questions.

 

Thanks very much, Terry. I'll have a look at it. Have a safe trip.

Terry A Britton said:
I'm getting ready to go on the road for a couple of weeks and won't be on the forum much, so I'll try to give you enough to get you started. I couldn't really see what you where talking about in the link you provided so I'll give you a couple of options. Firstly, you could display text over the image that says "Featured" or you could display an image in front of the other image that highlights the fact it is featured. If you do it with an image you will have to use z-index which allows you to stack items on top of each other, the higher the z-index the closer it is to the viewer.

 

The image in the category listing is wrapped by a div (catItemImageBlock). Within that same div in category_item.php you could put the following code. Sorry I can't give you an exact line number but my files are all heavily modified so the line numbers wouldn't match yours. Just search for catItemImageBlock.

 

<?php if ($this->item->featured) : ?>

<span class="featured">Featured</span>

<?php endif; ?>

 

You would then use css to position the text and style it the way you want to. I don't think you'll need z-index if you do it with text, but if you do, just put "z-index:99" in the css for featured. Backup your files before you start and hopefully someone else can step in if you have more questions.

 

One more thing you'll probably have to set the div (catItemImageBlock) and the span (featured) to either float:left or float:right (both to the same) so you can display one on top of the other.

Well, I'm not sure if we're misunderstanding each other or not but this is how I want it to look compared to how it looks now:http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z133/nintendonerds/featured.png

Terry A Britton said:

One more thing you'll probably have to set the div (catItemImageBlock) and the span (featured) to either float:left or float:right (both to the same) so you can display one on top of the other.