Showing News in 2 Columns in 7.02+

Hello Guyz,

One of my Friend requested to have the feature of showing the News on Double Columns on the News page. So I have made some modification to the file news.php to make it work...!

Here is what I have tried and its almost what it should show as Double Column.

[size=24]STEPS :[/size]

1. Backup and open your news.php file.

2. Find these Lines in this File (around Line 22):
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]// Predefined variables, do not edit these values
$i = 0;[/syntaxhighlighter]
3. After these Lines, Add the given below Lines :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]// Counter for Displaying News in 2 Columns
$counter = 3;[/syntaxhighlighter]
4. Now Find this Line :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]// Number of news displayed
$items_per_page = $settings['newsperpage'];[/syntaxhighlighter]
Change this Line to :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]// Number of news displayed
$items_per_page = $settings['newsperpage']+1;[/syntaxhighlighter]
5. Now Find this Line in the File (around Line 51) :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]$numrows = dbrows($result);[/syntaxhighlighter]
6. After these Lines, Add the given below Lines :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]// Table for 2 Columns News
echo "<table cellpadding='2' cellspacing='2' width='100%' border='0'>\n<tr>\n";[/syntaxhighlighter]
7. Now Find these Lines (around Line 83) :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]echo "<!--news_prepost_".$i."-->\n";
render_news($news_subject, $news_news, $news_info);[/syntaxhighlighter]
8. Replace these Lines with :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]echo "<td valign='top' width='20%'>\n";
echo "<!--news_prepost_".$i."-->\n";
render_news($news_subject, $news_news, $news_info);
echo "</td>\n";
if (($counter % 2 == 0) && ($counter != $items_per_page+2))
{
echo "</tr>\n<tr>\n";
}
$counter++;[/syntaxhighlighter]
9. Now just after two Lines, You will Find this Line :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]echo "<!--sub_news_idx-->\n";[/syntaxhighlighter]
10. Add the given below Line before the above given Line :
[syntaxhighlighter brush=php,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]echo "</tr>\n</table>";[/syntaxhighlighter]

DONE !!! SAVE YOUR FILE AND TEST IT !!!

[size=24][ MODDED FILE FROM VERSION 7.02.03 ATTACHED ][/size]

Thank You

Regards,
Ankur Thakur