How to show the latest Issue coverImage of each Journal

alienmau · August 8, 2016, 10:07pm

Hi, im intent to show near to the name of my journals the coverimage of the latest issue from each one, in other words at the beggining of the OJS where display all the name of my journals, i would like to add the latest issue coverimage, not the Journal Image, because every issue has a especific cover of every journal. I tried with some code in the template/issue.tpl and in site.tpl but not working.

ctgraham · August 9, 2016, 12:28pm

Please share the code changes you tried, and we can offer some guidance. You can post the changes to github, for paste them here. If you paste them here in the forum, be sure to begin and end the code blocks with three backticks so that it is formatted properly:

your code here.

alienmau · August 9, 2016, 4:11pm

Well in the /templates/index/site.tpl
I add this line:

`

<a href="{url journal=$journal->getPath() page=“issue” op=“current”}" class=“action”>

`

I dont wanna show the journal image, i wanna put the latest issue cover image of each journal, example i have 10 Journals and each journal had volume, number (issue) and every new number or issue of a journal have a new cover image, what i want to do in the index of the OJS is to show every journal name with the latest issue coverimage of echa one.

what i saw is that in site.tpl iterate from=journals, but how can i made what i want possible if i know the journal-id, with this how get the Current issue coverimage??

ctgraham · August 9, 2016, 5:30pm

Look at the page handler for the current issue as a starting point:

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/pages/issue/IssueHandler.inc.php#L43-L76


	/**
	 * Display current issue page.
	 */
	function current($args, $request) {
		$this->validate($request);
		$this->setupTemplate();

		$showToc = isset($args[0]) ? $args[0] : '';

		$journal =& $request->getJournal();

		$issueDao =& DAORegistry::getDAO('IssueDAO');
		$issue =& $issueDao->getCurrentIssue($journal->getId(), true);

		$templateMgr =& TemplateManager::getManager();

		if ($issue != null) {
			if ($showToc == 'showToc') {
				$request->redirect(null, 'issue', 'view', array($issue->getBestIssueId($journal), "showToc"), $request->getQueryArray());
			} else {

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There you can see how to get the current issue via a journal id.

The _setupIssueTemplate() function will show how to assign the cover page for an issue into the Smarty template.

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/pages/issue/IssueHandler.inc.php#L424


	}
	
	/**
	 * Given an issue, set up the template with all the required variables for
	 * issues/view.tpl to function properly (i.e. current issue and view issue).
	 * @param $issue object The issue to display
	 * @param $showToc boolean iff false and a custom cover page exists,
	 * 	the cover page will be displayed. Otherwise table of contents
	 * 	will be displayed.
	 */
	function _setupIssueTemplate($request, $issue, $showToc = false) {
		$journal =& $request->getJournal();
		$journalId = $journal->getId();
		$templateMgr =& TemplateManager::getManager();
		if (IssueHandler::_isVisibleIssue($issue, $journalId)) {

			$issueHeadingTitle = $issue->getIssueIdentification(false, true);
			$issueCrumbTitle = $issue->getIssueIdentification(false, true);

			$locale = AppLocale::getLocale();

Your assignments will need to live in the index page handler:

github.com

pkp/ojs/blob/ojs-stable-2_4_8/pages/index/IndexHandler.inc.php

<?php

/**
 * @file pages/index/IndexHandler.inc.php
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2013-2019 Simon Fraser University
 * Copyright (c) 2003-2019 John Willinsky
 * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
 *
 * @class IndexHandler
 * @ingroup pages_index
 *
 * @brief Handle site index requests.
 */

import('classes.handler.Handler');

class IndexHandler extends Handler {
	/**
	 * Constructor

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alienmau · August 9, 2016, 7:36pm

Nice, im gonna give a check out, thanks dude!