Module: Show Category blog Fulltext in Module

Question

Related Q/A: How to create a category blog layout with all articles shown in full?

I have the same issue as the referenced article above. I want a category blog to show introtext and readme by default, but on certain menu items I would like only the fulltext to appear.

The suggested solution by FFrewin works: create a new category type called blogfull.

Unfortunately I need a similar solution as a module. My website home page has a half dozen modules sprinkled across user4-user7. The modules are of type article newsflash. Like category blog, I see no way to choose fulltext only.

So it looks like I need a new module type called say newsflashfull. But I've looked around and had no idea what moving parts need cloning/changing.

Help? Using joomla 3.7.5

Answer 1

Solved it. I found the code for referencing the articles in a category here : Link

So I created a custom module for the On Now shows (category 79):

<?php
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = $db->getQuery(true);
$query->select('*')
->from($db->quoteName('#__content'))
->where($db->quoteName('catid') . ' = 79 and ' . $db->quoteName('state') . ' = 1 and ' . $db->quoteName('featured') . ' = 1');
$db->setQuery($query);
$rows = $db->loadObjectList();
foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
echo $row->fulltext , '<br>';
}
?>

Answer 2

Create a template override of /modules/mod_articles_news/_item.php and add echo $item->fulltext;. If you want entire article text to be shown as if it didn't have read more, append fulltext to introtext: echo $item->introtext . $item->fulltext;.