= News

Created by Pascal Naef (ScreenConcept), December 2008

With this news extension you can enter news with headline, leadtext and text in backend. A news will be only displayed if start is greater or equal current date and stop is less or equal current date.

Requirements
For this extension rails plugin calendar data select plugin is required. Further informations are you find here: http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/ .


== INSTALLATION

1)Install the News Extension

git clone git://github.com/screenconcept/radiant-news-extension.git vendor/extensions/news

2) run migration and update

rake production radiant:extensions:news:migrate
rake radiant:extensions:news:update

3) Start (or restart) your server


== USAGE

Radius Tags
<r:news:current>: Returns all current news
<r:news:headline >: Returns headline
<r:news:leadtext >: Returns leadtext
<r:news:text >: Returns text
<r:news:marquee [behavior="scroll"] [direction="left"] [loop="true"] [scrollamount="1"] [scrolldelay="2"] > : Returns a <marquee>-Tag with all current news and leadtexts.

Example:
<r:news:current>
  <r:news:headline /><br />
  <r:news:leadtext /><br />
  <r:news:text />
</r:news:current>


== TODO
- Frontend tests