RSS Feed Support
I am assuming that people would like to be able to display RSS feeds on their site. Since Siteframe is not intended to be an RSS aggregator (of which there are already many), my presumption is that RSS feeds would be used to link certain sites together. For example, the Contax G Pages might like to display recent images from the Non-Contax G Pages, a sister site. A community website might want to show news headlines from the local paper's RSS feed.
NOTE: Support for RSS 2.0 is provided; other versions (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, etc.) may work, but there is no plan to officially support those versions.
This would produce a bulleted list with the five most recent items from the specified news feed.
NOTE: Support for RSS 2.0 is provided; other versions (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, etc.) may work, but there is no plan to officially support those versions.
Usage
Instead of treating the RSS feeds as a major document type, with a full interface, I'm expecting that people will want to use the RSS feeds embedded on another page. Therefore, I propose the creation of a Smarty block construct {rss}...{/rss} that will permit access to an external RSS feed, like this:{rss source="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories"}
<h2>{$rss.title}</h2>
<ul>
{section name=item loop=$rss.items maxlimit=5}
<li><a href="{$rss.items[item].url}">{$rss.items[item].title}</a></li>
{/section}
</ul>
{/rss}
This would produce a bulleted list with the five most recent items from the specified news feed.
Implementation
Internally, a table will hold RSS feed data; when the {rss} construct is used, the data is retrieved from the table; if the data is older than NN minutes (configurable), then it is refreshed from the source server.Administration
The site administrator page will have a list of current RSS feeds and the ability to edit or delete them.
by glen
(Glen Campbell)
September 2, 2005 11:27
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This is exactly what we are looking for. Nothing too complicated, just the ability to pull feeds from external sources and format them to our pleasing.
Agree with using it within a page and keeping it simple. Seems to mitigate the loss of TrackBack a bit if you can use RSS to tie sites together.
Coby
I agree about RSS. Since 90% of the infrastructure was there, I went ahead and made RSS feeds a user-creatable object. To create one, just go to .../edit.php?c=RSSfeed.
Hi, i'm having a little difficulty here. What i am trying to do is run a rss news feed on the home page that shows the 20 most recently added articles in the database, sounds simple enough right? Well, here's the problem, the Rss file, rss.xml that is generated on the server is Rss ver 0.92 and the software i'm using for showing the feed won't read the file, if i manually edit the file and substitute 0.92 with 0.91 everything works perfectly. The web site in question is http://www.findports.com i've tried just about everything i can think of and have run out of idea's, i just need to make the rss.xml output a different version, please, any help here would be really appreciated.
Andy
Sounds like you're using Siteframe 3.x. If you want to change this, then
Voila! The RSS file will be regenerated with the correct version # the next time you create a document.
pfft i feel silly now, three days of pulling my hair out and it was as simple as that, you're a star!
Andy