JCarousel adding blogpost instead of html - umbraco

Question

is it possible to add my blogposts to JCarousel instead of a html code? It should look like this:
=> EXAMPLE
On this site the content is just html, but I want my blogpost to show off.
Let's say I wrote 5 blogposts, so the Slider must show me the 5 blogposts.
Hope someone can help me out!
Greetings
Nico

Answer 1

You'll need to create a macro (xslt or razor) that will display your blog post nodes and then target them with jquery to load the jcarousel. Below is an example of a razor script that does this using the code from the example you referenced:
#using umbraco.MacroEngines
#inherits DynamicNodeContext
#try
{
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.fdp-bw.de/jcarousel/lib/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.fdp-bw.de/jcarousel/lib/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.fdp-bw.de/jcarousel/lib/jquery.jcarousel.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.fdp-bw.de/jcarousel/skins/tango/skin.css" />
<style type="text/css">
/**
* Additional styles for the controls.
*/
.jcarousel-control {
margin-bottom: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
.jcarousel-control a {
font-size: 75%;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 0 5px;
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
border: 1px solid #fff;
color: #eee;
background-color: #4088b8;
font-weight: bold;
}
.jcarousel-control a:focus,
.jcarousel-control a:active {
outline: none;
}
.jcarousel-scroll {
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
.jcarousel-scroll form {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.jcarousel-scroll select {
font-size: 75%;
}
#mycarousel-next,
#mycarousel-prev {
cursor: pointer;
margin-bottom: -10px;
text-decoration: underline;
font-size: 11px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
/**
* We use the initCallback callback
* to assign functionality to the controls
*/
function mycarousel_initCallback(carousel) {
jQuery('.jcarousel-control a').bind('click', function () {
carousel.scroll(jQuery.jcarousel.intval(jQuery(this).text()));
return false;
});
jQuery('.jcarousel-scroll select').bind('change', function () {
carousel.options.scroll = jQuery.jcarousel.intval(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);
return false;
});
jQuery('#mycarousel-next').bind('click', function () {
carousel.next();
return false;
});
jQuery('#mycarousel-prev').bind('click', function () {
carousel.prev();
return false;
});
};
// Ride the carousel...
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
jQuery("#mycarousel").jcarousel({
scroll: 1,
visible: 1,
auto: 10,
wrap: "last",
initCallback: mycarousel_initCallback,
// This tells jCarousel NOT to autobuild prev/next buttons
buttonNextHTML: null,
buttonPrevHTML: null
});
});
</script>
<div id="mycarousel" class="jcarousel-skin-tango">
<ul>
#foreach (var post in Model.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("umbBlogPost"))
{
<li>
<h2>#post.Name</h2>
<div>#post.bodyText</div>
</li>
}
</ul>
<div class="jcarousel-control">
#for (int i = 0; i < Model.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("umbBlogPost").Count(); i++)
{
#(i + 1)
}
</div>
</div>
}
catch (Exception e)
{
<!-- #e.ToString() -->
}
That will give you all of the posts. You may want to do some ordering and filtering and then get the top five or whatever:
var posts = Model.AncestorOrSelf().Descendants("umbBlogPost").OrderBy("PostDate desc").Take(5);