• Introduction
• Ready to cook?
• About this book
• Who we are
• Planning your publication
• Turning your idea into a publication
• Planning your workflow
• Structuring your content
• From design to templates
• $gimme all your lovin'
• Best practices in designing your content
• Preparing designs for templates
• Organising template files
• Your first Newscoop theme
• Troubleshooting templates
• Making your templates
• Tips and tricks to save you time
• Publications
• Issues
• Sections
• Articles
• Breaking up long articles with subheaders and pagination
• Working with featured article lists (aka Playlists)
• Article comments
• Making a 404 page template
• Creating a Newscoop theme
• Search: basic and advanced
• Search templates
• Configuring Apache Solr for sysadmins
• Templates to Search with Solr
• Search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Working with images and other media
• Images: how, which and why
• Displaying and listing images (articles, authors, attached)
• Image renditions as set by the theme
• Scaling images inside the template
• Expanding Article Images
• Slideshows
• Playing Audio and Video files
• Multilingual publications and templates
• Content in multiple languages
• Multilingual strings inside templates
• Different templates for different languages
• Text direction
• Special Newscoop features
• Topics, switches, keywords to structure content
• Dynamic page layouts with switches
• Using maps
• Managing multiple authors and articles
• Browser detection and robots (search engines)
• Mobile device detection and templates
• Creating Debate functionality
• Article rating by readers
• Users, Authors and Community Features
• Content access, Authorization & password retrieval
• Users, Authors, Staff
• Listing Users and User activities
• Creating Author profile page
• Advanced templating
• Managing static pages
• List of popular articles (most read)
• List of latest comments
• Tag clouds using topics
• Pagination of article lists
• RSS, sitemap, KML and XML
• Using polls with AJAX
• Direct frontend link to article editing in the backend
• Subsections
• Ways to create archives
• Working with third party tools
• Embedding YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
• Disqus and Facebook comment systems
• Profile pictures: Gravatar, Facebook, Twitter
• Looking good for and with Facebook
• Combining Newscoop and SoundCloud
• Working with advertising
• Template reference
• Language elements and conventions
• Basic syntax
• Template reference - Objects
• Introduction to Newscoop objects
• Article object and attachment, comment, location
• Author and author biography
• Browser
• Image
• Issue
• Language
• Publication
• Section
• Subscription
• Subtitle (subheads in long articles)
• Template
• Topic
• URL
• User
• Default objects (list of all available objects)
• Template reference - Controlling objects
• Set objects
• Unset objects
• Local - temporary variable environment
• Template reference - Lists
• List articles
• List article attachments
• List article authors
• List article comments
• List article images
• List article locations
• List article topics and subtopics
• List issues and sections
• List subtitles (pagination of long articles)
• List images
• List languages
• List search results
• Template reference - Forms
• Search form
• Login and registration form
• Subscription form
• Comment form
• Action check on form submission
• General form elements and functions
• Template reference - Maps and geolocation
• Map
• Displaying a map
• Location multimedia
• Geolocation search
• Template reference - Modifiers
• Date and e-mail formatting
• File size formatting
• Truncating UTF8 strings
• URL display and modifying
• Newscoop Plugins
• Example plugin
• Newscoop API
• Introduction to Newscoop API
• Appendix
• About this manual

Topic

The topic object is usually initialized inside a list of article topics or a list of subtopics. It can be initialized at the beginning of the template from the URL request, or by using the set_topic function in Newscoop. The topic object has the following properties:

• name: returns the topic name in the current language defined in the template environment
• value: returns the topic value in the following format: <topic_name_lang_code> = <topic_name>:<language_code>
• identifier: the topic identifier in the Newscoop database
• defined: true if the topic object had a valid value