[pmwiki-users] RSS feed

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:57:06AM -0000, akille.24444274 at bloglines.com wrote:
> Thanks for the information. I got the author name to show up in the RSS feed
> by making this change in the RSS 2.0 settings for ?action=rss in feeds.php:
> 
> 
> CHANGED:
> 'dc:author' => '{$LastModifiedBy}',
> 
> TO:
> 'author' => "<author><name>{\$LastModifiedBy}</name></author>\n",

Note that you don't need to change the feeds.php script itself --
better might be to do (in local/config.php):

    $FeedFmt['rss']['item']['author'] = 
      "<author><name>{\$LastModifiedBy}</name></author>";

This way the change will still work after upgrading PmWiki.

> However, I'm not getting a description at all for the items in the RSS
> code. How do I get the description to show up? 
> (It doesn't have to be an excerpt.)
> I'd just like what was changed to show up in the feed.

The relevant variable is {$LastModifiedSummary} -- what RSS
element do you want it to appear under?

Pm

> --- Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:30:11AM -0000, akille.24444274 at bloglines.com wrote:
> 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm new to PmWiki and the mailing list. I'm in the process
> of setting
> > > up a site with pmwiki and am trying to figure out how to set
> up the RSS feed
> > > the way I want. I've added ?action=rss to a RecentChanges
> page, but when I
> > > subscribe to the feed in my feed reader (Bloglines),
> all I get are page titles
> > > (with links to the page) and the date it was
> updated. I would like to see
> > > an excerpt of what was changed and also
> the author of the change in the feed.
> > > How do I do that?
> > 
> > At present
> we don't have a way to provide an excerpt of what was
> > changed (it's very
> difficult to automatically detect and summarize
> > what changed).  We do (or
> can) provide the change summary in the feed, 
> > however.
> > 
> > The author
> of the change is normally provided the <dc:contributor>
> > element, but Bloglines
> might not be using that for authorship.
> > We can add another element for
> authorship if needed.  (I'm not
> > all that fmiliar with the various feed
> readers so I'm kinda winging
> > it as we go. :-)
> > 
> > Pm
> > 
>