Related Articles

This module displays a list of articles written by an author. If you select the Auto-detect parameter, then the module will detect the author if you are on an Author or Article page.

Module Options

This module has the following options available:

• Alternative Title - Optional title to display in the module. Usually used when the main module title is not displayed.
• Layout - An alternative layout to display taken from either the built in layouts or extra layouts defined in the active template layout overrides folder.
• Limit - The number of items to display. Use zero to display all items.
• Order - The order in which to display the articles.
• Auto-detect - Automatically detect if there is an article being displayed and act accordingly (usually set to Yes)
• Side to Select - When you create article relationships, there is the concept of a left-side article and a right-side article. Usually this is set to either and will pick up relationship in either direction. Left-side and right-side filtering can be useful if you want on article to be related to a particular set of article, yet one of those other articles could be related to a different set.

Advanced Options

• Article Icon - Display one of the predefined media types for each article.
• Show Summary - Show the article summary field.
• Date Format - The data format to use if one is displayed.
• Override Itemid - Each article link will be set with this Itemid rather than it being determined by the router. This is required on occasion to ensure links transfer to the correct menu-based page.
• No Follow Link - Include a rel="nofollow" attribute in the article links.
• List Class - An alternative class to use for the HTML list tag (UL or OL).
• List item Class - An alternative class to use for the HTML list item tag (LI).
• Module Class Suffix - A suffix for the module class (standard Joomla! feature).
• Caching - Enable or disable caching of this module (standard Joomla! feature).
• Cache Time - The maximum time to cache the module is caching is enabled.

For assistance with creating and maintaining Joomla modules, see the official Joomla documentation:

• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.modules.15
• http://docs.joomla.org/Screen.modules.edit.15

Customization

This page may be customized using the Joomla layout override system.  You need to be able to create new files and edit them on your web hosting site using FTP or other tools that are available to you (contact your web host if you need more information).

All file paths are relative to the directory in which Joomla is installed.  When looking a files you need to create, it is assumed that you will create the necessary folders if they don't already exist in each case.  The directory default_template refers to the template that is set as the default for your site.  Please replace this name with the actual name of the template directory.

To create the layout override for this page, find the file:

/modules/mod_zine_related_articles/tmpl/default.php

Copy this to:

/templates/default_template/html/mod_zine_related_articles/default.php

Make the desired adjustments to the source code to the new file you created and then save it.  Your changes should be reflected when you refresh the appropriate page.

For more information on layout overrides, see http://www.theartofjoomla.com/topics/layout-overrides.html