[TYPO3] tt_news first paragraph

[Dan Osipov]

I would suggest making an extension, and making use of the TCE hook, so 
that every time a news record is saved, the first paragraph is isolated 
and wrapped. This is probably more complicated than what you were hoping 
for, but I can't see another way...

Suggested code:
     function processDatamap_preProcessFieldArray(&$incomingFieldArray, 
&$table, &$id, &$tcemain)
     {
          if($table == "tt_news")
          {
              preg_match_all("/<p>(.+)<\/p>/Us", 
$incomingFieldArray["bodytext"], $post);
              // Wrap $post[1][0], and append it to the rest of the text
          }
     }

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Lee M. Childress wrote:
> Before I go hacking away at the actual tt_news code, I am sure there is a better way to do this:
>  
> When displaying a single view in tt_news I would like only the first paragraph of the news body to have a different class tag than the rest, i.e.:
>  
> <p class="bodytext_first">This is the first paragraph of the news story.</p>
> <p class="bodytext">This is the second and remaining paragraphs.</p>
>  
> Any decent way to do this without altering the code?