I was shocked to discover that there was no way to not sure future entries with the CMSMS News Module unless I used the expiration settings. I did not want to expire news articles, I only want to be able to publish articles in the future and not to display them until their publish date.
The mod was very easy, although I only spent a few minutes looking at it I have probably missed something important. It works though, and solved my immediate problem.
News.module.php
// find
$this->SetParameterType('inline',CLEAN_STRING);
// add after
$this->SetParameterType('showfuture',CLEAN_INT);
action.default.php
// find
$now = $db->DbTimeStamp(time());
// add after
if (isset($params['showfuture']) && $params['showfuture'] == 0)
{
$query1 .= " news_date < ".$now." AND";
$query2 .= " news_date < ".$now." AND";
}
It made sense to me to make the default to not display future articles. You can now use the “showfuture” parameter to disable that functionality and show future articles.
{news pagelimit="3" showfuture="0"} // will show all future articles
