[Imc-tech] Author on the newswire

[Daniel S. Lewart]

Christopher,

> I was curious how you hacked in the author's name on the newswire on the
> front page?  we would like to do the same.  thanks
> --christopher, tc-imc

Below is the patch I made to webcast/summary_list.inc.
I'm glad y'all like it!

Solidarity,
Dan
http://urbana.indymedia.org/
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--- webcast/summary_list.inc.orig	Tue Aug 14 03:32:53 2001
+++ webcast/summary_list.inc	Mon Aug 27 06:45:43 2001
@@ -113,17 +113,21 @@
 #        $str .= "<IMG SRC=\"$filename_doc\" ALT=\"document\" $sizes_doc[3] BORDER=\"0\">";
 # using "sizes" for the doc icon yields an icon which is too large -
 # stefai 25 may 2001
-         $str .= "<IMG SRC=\filename_doc\" ALT=\"document\" height=\"20\" width=\"15\" BORDER=\"0\">";
+         $str .= "<IMG SRC=\"$filename_doc\" ALT=\"document\" height=\"20\" width=\"15\" BORDER=\"0\">";
     #  } elseif (strstr($mymime, "application/pdf")) {
       } elseif (substr_count($mymime, "application/pdf")==1 ) {
 	$str .= "<IMG SRC=\"$filename_pdf\" ALT=\"document\" $sizes_pdf[3] BORDER=\"0\">";
       }
    
    
-      $group = $row["arttype"];
+      $group = chop($row["arttype"]);
       $str  .= "<a href=\"front.php3?article_id=$id&group=$group\">";
-      $str  .= "$row[heading]";
-      $str  .= "</a>\n";
+      $str  .= chop($row[heading]);
+      $str  .= "</a><br>\n";
+      $str  .= "by " . chop($row[author]);
+      if ($row[numcomment] > 0)
+       $str .= " (+$row[numcomment])";
+      $str  .= "<br>\n";
       $str  .= "<font size=-1><i>$nice_time</i></font>\n";
    
     }
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