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#316765 - 02/28/08 02:29 PM Custom island that shows an rss feed
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands Add to del.icio.us Digg it	A quick and dirty one, it shows the content of an rss feed. I had one feed it didn't work with, and a few others it did work with. It just shows the headers+the link to the article. Code: /* PHP CODE HERE / $display=""; $count=0; $xml = getFeed('http://www.fotogalerijen.be/parkcast/parkcast.xml'); foreach( $xml as $feed ) { if ($count>=10) { break; } if( ! $feed['title'] ) { break; } $display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br />"; $count++; } / BODY HERE */ $body = <<<EOF $display EOF; Just copy/paste above code in a custom field, set the caching time on some value, edit the hardcoded feed url, and edit the max number of entries (10 now). _________________________
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#316766 - 02/28/08 02:57 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]
GEN Power User Registered: 01/01/07 Posts: 51 Loc: UK	Works great, just wish it would open the links in a new window. _________________________ GEN Give Yourself to the Dark Side @ http://www.galacticempire.net Give Yourself to the Geek Side @ http://www.movingimagetoys.com "Anakin, duck!" "What's a duck?"
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#316767 - 02/28/08 04:05 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: GEN]
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands	Just add a target to the link. No rocket science needed to add that _________________________
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#316771 - 02/28/08 08:23 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]
GEN Power User Registered: 01/01/07 Posts: 51 Loc: UK	_________________________ GEN Give Yourself to the Dark Side @ http://www.galacticempire.net Give Yourself to the Geek Side @ http://www.movingimagetoys.com "Anakin, duck!" "What's a duck?"
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#316774 - 02/29/08 02:48 AM

Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: GEN]

blaaskaak Offline

Member

Registered: 02/25/07
Posts: 286
Loc: The Netherlands

okay, I wanted a date/time added to it, so I took it a little further. Configuration is a bit more easy now since it's all listed on top. It also shows the content now of the feed if you fly over it.

Styles used are those from the buildin posts island.

enjoy!

Code:

// configuration
$feedurl = 'http://www.fotogalerijen.be/parkcast/parkcast.xml';
$maxentries = 10;
$showdate = 1;

// start code

$body = "";
$count = 0;
$dateinfo = "";
$xml = getFeed($feedurl);
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count >= $maxentries) {
break;
}
if( !$feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$link=$feed['link'];
$time=$feed['time'];
$title=$feed['title'];
$description=$feed['description'];
$pubdate=strtotime($feed['pubdate']);
$pubtime = $html->convert_time($pubdate);

if ($showdate)
$dateinfo = <<<EOF
<span class="small">
$pubtime
</span>
EOF;

$body.= <<<EOF
<tr>
<td class="{$style_side}alt-1" align="left">
<div title="$description">
<a href="$link" target="_blank">$title</a></div>
$dateinfo
</td>
</tr>
EOF;
$count++;
}

I just thought of some security issues if the feed would contain html, so just add feeds you trust ok

I'm away for the weekend, so don't have time to get into it now.

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#316777 - 02/29/08 06:48 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]
GEN Power User Registered: 01/01/07 Posts: 51 Loc: UK	Perfect. _________________________ GEN Give Yourself to the Dark Side @ http://www.galacticempire.net Give Yourself to the Geek Side @ http://www.movingimagetoys.com "Anakin, duck!" "What's a duck?"
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#316837 - 04/05/08 08:07 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: GEN]
GEN Power User Registered: 01/01/07 Posts: 51 Loc: UK	A weird thing happens when I have two separate islands with the same code in on the same page but with two different urls to feeds. It only shows one of the feeds in bot islands. Hmmm _________________________ GEN Give Yourself to the Dark Side @ http://www.galacticempire.net Give Yourself to the Geek Side @ http://www.movingimagetoys.com "Anakin, duck!" "What's a duck?"
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#316838 - 04/05/08 10:27 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: GEN]
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands	Hmm, I'll give that a try. Have you tried both url's seperate? _________________________
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#316839 - 04/05/08 11:20 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]
GEN Power User Registered: 01/01/07 Posts: 51 Loc: UK	Well, when I have only one instance of the code in an island and one URL it shows the feed But if I have the same code in two islands, even with separate urls only one feed shows up in both islands even though the urls to the feeds are different I'm using a different code at the minute but I really like the above code, just can't understand why it only seems to work in one instance _________________________ GEN Give Yourself to the Dark Side @ http://www.galacticempire.net Give Yourself to the Geek Side @ http://www.movingimagetoys.com "Anakin, duck!" "What's a duck?"
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#316852 - 04/08/08 04:49 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: GEN]
AllenAyres I type Like navaho Registered: 03/10/00 Posts: 25411 Loc: Texas	Very nice Yarp! How difficult would it be to include a pit of the post body, similar to how active topics does it, but only for the specified forum(s)? _________________________ - Allen - What Drives You?
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#316857 - 04/09/08 03:19 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: AllenAyres]
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands	Wouldn't be difficult at all. If it's a field in the feed, you can display it. I do know I played with a version during dev that had the message content as tooltip text. _________________________
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#316886 - 04/25/08 06:36 AM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]
Myke Power User Registered: 09/06/99 Posts: 87 Loc: Sydney, Australia	Thanks for this! I was previously using an external rss reader (lastRSS) in order to populate a custom island, but this is much cleaner! I'm using it to show a list of recent changes from our wiki (http://virtuafighter.com/ bottom left island). I feel a bit silly asking this, because my searching hasn't been successful, but where can I find some documentation on getFeed() ? Specifically, I'd like to know what rss protocols it supports, and what fields it returns (or does that just depend on the rss feed?)
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#316887 - 04/25/08 06:55 AM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: Myke]
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands	getfeed is a function that is in the ubb sourcecode, but as far as I know, it is not used anywhere by ubb itself. I found about it by trying out Ian Spence' rss topic creator. it's in /libs/ubbthreads.inc.php if you want to have a look at it. _________________________
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#316888 - 04/25/08 07:36 AM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]
Gizmo Wizard Registered: 01/10/00 Posts: 5119 Loc: Portland, OR, USA	Initially I believe it was used to parse an RSS feed from ubbcentral; but went wonky on some sites... _________________________ UBB.Dev - Where you too can render your UBB install completely useless... UGN Security, Elite Web Gamers & VNC Web Design Owner
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#316889 - 04/25/08 10:23 AM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: Gizmo]
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands	Ah, the latest new thingy in control panel, yep, that would be it _________________________
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#316894 - 04/29/08 03:17 PM

Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]

Jaymo

Lurker

Registered: 04/29/08
Posts: 7

Hey, blaaskaak, this is a cool tool - I'm using it successfully but am experiencing the same issue mentioned above, where, despite using three unique URL's, each Island displays information identical to the content of the first Custom Island.

Any insight would be much appreciated!

Let me show you the three pieces of code I'm using:

This one displays the headlines from Variety.com:

Code:

/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */

$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/variety/news/film');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=5) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br /><br />";
$count++;
}

/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */

The following two, though possessing unique URL's, display the same info as the code listed above.

Code:

/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */

$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://feeds.feedburner.com/variety/reviews/film');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=5) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br />";
$count++;
}

/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */

/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */

$display="";
$count=0;
$xml = getFeed('http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid714034225?action=rss');
foreach( $xml as $feed ) {
if ($count>=5) {
break;
}
if( ! $feed['title'] ) {
break;
}
$display.="<a href=\"".$feed['link']."\">".$feed['title']."</a><br />";
$count++;
}

/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<EOF
$display
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */

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#316895 - 04/30/08 12:53 AM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: Jaymo]
Ian_W Veteran Registered: 02/22/02 Posts: 2570 Loc: England	Just a thought - try adding 1, 2 & 3 after each $feed, $xml, $display etc. for each feed, so that the code is unique. I have not tried this, but it is worth a try _________________________ Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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#316899 - 04/30/08 02:18 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: Ian_W]
Jaymo Lurker Registered: 04/29/08 Posts: 7	ARRG! Sounded like a great idea, Ian, but nope, same result....
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#316905 - 05/01/08 01:25 PM Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: Jaymo]
blaaskaak Member Registered: 02/25/07 Posts: 286 Loc: The Netherlands	Did a couple of tries to get multiple feeds running, but no luck so far yet _________________________
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#316907 - 05/01/08 07:14 PM

Re: Custom island that shows an rss feed [Re: blaaskaak]

arentzen Offline

Newbie

Registered: 10/05/06
Posts: 19
Loc: Denmark

Hello out there. Its been a long time ago since last visit.... But i'd installed version 7.2.2 and has also struggeled with feeds in custom boxes. If you running PHP5, there is a function called simplexml_load_file which works excellent.

The code generates a link, a date, and a short description with 45 chars. Replace the url to the wanted feed in $feed

Php Code:

/* PHP CODE HERE, IF NECESSARY */
$feed = simplexml_load_file("http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/service/feeds/allenyheder");
$taeller  = 0;
$antal = 5; /*number of news*/
foreach($feed->channel->item as $item){
while($taeller<$antal){

/* formatting description with 45 chars*/
if (strlen($item->description) > 45) {
$item->description  = substr($item->description , 0, 45);
}
/* formatting date*/
$pubdate=strtotime($item->pubDate);
$pubtime = $html->convert_time($pubdate);
$dateinfo = <<<EOF
<span class="small">
$pubtime
</span>
EOF;

$link = utf8_decode("<a href='{$item->link}' target='_blank'>{$item->title}</a><br />");
$description= utf8_decode("{$item->description}...<br />");


$body.= <<<EOF

<tr>
<td class="{$style_side}alt-1" align="left">$link
$dateinfo <br />
$description
</td>
</tr>
EOF;

break;

}
$taeller ++;

}

/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */

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Peter Arentzen
trosfrihed.dk

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