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Valentine Solo
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7 years 7 months ago #160335 by Valentine Solo

Estimated Reading Time plugin How to adapt K2 was created by Valentine Solo

K2 is truly flexible thing! This time I've tried to implement Joomla Estimated Reading Time Plugin for K2 articles but... it doesn't work out of the box.
May be community can help?

As follows from doc reference, to use it on overrides templates we should add the following:

$this->item->readingtime->slowtime : The slower time your users might take reading the article
$this->item->readingtime->quicktime : The quicker time your users might take reading the article
$this->item->readingtime->formattedtime : The plugin output, which you can override using directions in previous section.
$this->item->readingtime->wordCount (Since 3.5.1) : The number of words in the article

But default.php of this plugin is just all about com content. I'd like to use it in K2 and appreciate any tips.

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7 years 7 months ago #160347 by Mohamed Abdelaziz

Replied by Mohamed Abdelaziz on topic Estimated Reading Time plugin How to adapt K2

Hi Valentine,

I have looked into the code of the plugin, it is restricted to work with Joomla articles only, so you need to modify it to work with K2.

Edit the readingtime.php file, and the required if conditions to work with K2, just like $context == 'com_k2.item' and/or $context == 'com_k2.itemlist'

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Krikor Boghossian
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7 years 7 months ago #160373 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Estimated Reading Time plugin How to adapt K2

There are several JS plugins which offer the same functionality and will work with any CMS/ extension.

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7 years 7 months ago #160479 by Valentine Solo

Replied by Valentine Solo on topic Estimated Reading Time plugin How to adapt K2

Mohamed Abdelaziz wrote: Hi Valentine,

I have looked into the code of the plugin, it is restricted to work with Joomla articles only, so you need to modify it to work with K2.

Edit the readingtime.php file, and the required if conditions to work with K2, just like $context == 'com_k2.item' and/or $context == 'com_k2.itemlist'

Just the thing I needed. Thanks. Now It is clear and easy)

As conclusion:

if ($context == 'com_content.article' || $context == 'com_content.featured' || $context == 'com_content.category' || $context == 'com_k2.item')

Or to use js to get the same value of reading time.

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