manilaSuite.renderNewsPage

on renderNewsPage (msgNum, flShowFlipButton=false, pta=nil)

«Render a news page.

«Changes:

unaltered lines omitted

if pta == nil

unaltered lines omitted

try //12/13/02 JES: add <link> tag with the rsd.xml URL to pta^.meta

unaltered lines omitted

try //05/31/02 JES: add <link> tag with the RSS URL to pta^.meta

unaltered lines omitted

try //04/04/03 JES: add <link> tag with the URL of mySubscriptions.opml to pta^.meta

unaltered lines omitted

bundle //render news items if the pref is turned on

on untaint (adrText) //PBS 03/14/01: local routine; avoid string copy

unaltered lines omitted

local (adrRoot = mainResponder.discuss.openRoot (pta)) //PBS 06/20/00: use this in subsequent calls to get the address of a message table

local (msgTable = mainResponder.discuss.getMessageTable (msgNum, pta, adrRoot)) //PBS 06/20/00: send adrRoot parameter since it's available

local (flByline = true)

local (htmlText = "", indentLevel = 0)

local (calendarHtml = "")

local (flPost = (pta^.method == "POST"))

local (now = clock.now ())

local (newsHomeUrl = pta^.urls^.newsHome); untaint (@newsHomeUrl)

local (flStaticRendering = manilaSuite.staticRendering.isStaticRendering (pta)) //PBS 6/14/00: call once at top of script instead of once for each news day

local (flManagingEditor = pta^.flManagingEditor) //is this the managing editor?

local (adrNewsSite = pta^.newsSite)

on add (s)

unaltered lines omitted

on isDeleted (adrMsgTable) //PBS 03/14/01: optimization -- local routine

unaltered lines omitted

pta^.title = msgTable^.subject; untaint (@pta^.title) //the title comes from the dg message table

if isDeleted (msgTable) //PBS 12/13/99: no title if message has been deleted

unaltered lines omitted

bundle //the editor may not want a title to appear on the home page

bundle //add a meta tag

bundle //get the postTime and lastUpdate time for this page

bundle //determine whether or not to display a byline

if flManagingEditor and flPost //update the home page text, build the static page

unaltered lines omitted

bundle //display the current news and calendar if turned on

pta^.calendar = calendarHtml //PBS 8/10/99

return (htmlText)

Relative to Frontier version 9.7b10