This plugin will take a block of text and only return the first line (e.g. everything before a newline/return). It’s useful for showing summaries/excerpts from blog entries or on EE search result pages where you don’t have an exceprt/summary field already setup. HTML is not stripped out either.

Usage is simply:

An example would be as follows:

What would be returned is this:

You can also specify how many lines to return by flagging the returns parameter:

...will return the following:

If you leave out the returns parameter, it will default to only return the first line.

You can download the latest version here:

http://ee.cwhapps.com/plugins/summary/latest.zip

You guys are awesome. It’s especially nice to have some ‘free’ 2.X addons .... thanks for being so generous with all your work.

This looks great. Any possibility of having a parameter to for the number of retunrs? i.e. returns=“1” would be the default, but if you want to include two paragraphs, you could do returns=“2”.

@JArment: Done. Usage is as follows:

...will return the following:

If you leave out the returns parameter, it will default to only return the first line.

Sweetness! Thanks!

Thanks for the awesome plugin! I am however having a problem getting it to work. When I try to call the plugin, I am getting the following error:

Any ideas of what is going on here?

@Jerman:

Could you please let me know what version you are using and paste the EE code? Thank you!

Sure. I am running version v2.0.1pb01 - Build:  20100121

The code is:
{exp:summary}{body}{/exp:summary}

I of course tried it with sample text as well, same problem.

Thanks. This has only been tested on 1.6.8, but I’ll get my 2.x copy up and get back to you shortly. Thank you for the heads up!

No prob. Sorry for misunderstanding about the version #. Someone above mentioned 2.x so I thought it meant this was a 2.x plugin. Thanks again, can’t wait for the proper version!!

Hi there,

Thanks for this plugin, it looks really useful as it will save me having to bother with separate ‘summary’ and ‘body’ fields!

I have one request though - is there any chance you can add a ‘skips’ or similarly named parameter that would literally skip the first x number of lines and then output the rest of the content?

I’m thinking that this could be useful on article-like pages.  For example, I have a single field called ‘Content.’  In order to get my first line summary, I use your plugin around my ‘Content’ field and I will also style this line differently as it’s an introduction paragraph. Then I’ll repeat the same ‘Content’ field but my problem is that it’ll repeat the first line again. So this ‘skips’ parameter would allow me to enter a value of 1, and it’d then output the entire field contents after skipping the first line.

Also, I originally downloaded this from Devot-ee and noticed that the download link there links to the 1.0.0 version so you might want to update this for anyone who doesn’t see this forum thread.

Thanks.