[pmwiki-users] pmwiki-2.1.beta14 released, improved RSS and Atom feeds

[DaveG]

Sorry.

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> Subject:
> Re: [pmwiki-users] pmwiki-2.1.beta14 released, improved RSS and Atom feeds
> From:
> DaveG <pmwiki at solidgone.com>
> Date:
> Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:31:01 -0500
> To:
> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
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> To:
> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
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> In order to use Magpie (ref 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RssFeedDisplay) in conjunction with 
> 2.1b14, should I include both:
>    require_once('local/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
> AND
>    include_once('scripts/feeds.php');
> 
> At the moment I have both, I get xml generated on action=rss, and have 
> the CACHE directory set. But the magpie cache does not get populated. 
> I'm a little confussed at how Magpie and PMwiki play together, if at all.
> 
>  ~ ~ Dave
> 
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
>> I've just released pmwiki-2.1.beta14, which makes significant
>> changes to PmWiki's built-in web feed capabilities.  The newest
>> beta release is available from
>>
>>     http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.1.beta14.tgz
>>     http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.1.beta14.zip
>>     http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pmwiki
>>     svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest
>>
>> In this new release, the scripts/rss.php file has been replaced by a
>> newer scripts/rss.php.  Existing sites can either continue to use the
>> traditional rss.php, or switch over to feeds.php.
>>
>> The new feeds.php works correctly with UTF-8 and can generate feeds
>> in any of RSS 2.0, Atom 1.0, RSS 1.0, and even Dublin Core Metadata 
>> format.  It can also produce feeds from any wikitrail, category, or 
>> group,
>> and supports the use of the RSS <enclosure> tag for podcasting.
>>
>> To generate feeds, add a line like the following to a local configuration
>> file:
>>
>>     if ($action == 'rss') include_once('scripts/feeds.php');
>>     if ($action == 'atom') include_once('scripts/feeds.php');
>>
>> The basic functionality of RSS support remains the same as before,
>> adding ?action=rss or ?action=rdf to a wikitrail page generates a feed
>> for the pages on the trail.  The ?count=n parameter can be used to
>> specify the maximum number of items that should be placed in the feed,
>> while ?order= can specify the order in which items should appear.
>> Thus:
>>
>>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Site/AllRecentChanges?action=rss
>>       - RSS 2.0 feed for the PmWiki site
>>
>>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Category/Skins?action=atom&order=-time
>>       - Atom 1.0 feed for all pages in the Skins category, most
>>         recently edited first
>>
>>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PmWiki?action=dc
>>       - Dublin Core Metadata for PmWiki.PmWiki page
>>
>> The new script is highly configurable, new elements can be easily
>> added to feeds via the $FeedFmt array.  Elements in $FeedFmt look like
>>
>>         $FeedFmt['atom']['feed']['rights'] = 'All Rights Reserved';
>>
>> where the first index corresponds to the action (?action=atom),
>> the second index indicates a per-feed or per-item element, and
>> the third index is the name of the element being generated.
>> The above setting would therefore generate a
>> "<rights>All Rights Reserved</rights>" in the feed for
>> ?action=atom.  If the value of an entry begins with a '<',
>> then feeds.php doesn't automatically add the tag around it.
>> Elements can also be callable functions which are called to
>> generate the appropriate output.
>>
>> In order to properly support these changes, PmWiki has also
>> improved some of its internal metadata handling.  Descriptions,
>> keywords, and the initial portion of formatted output (up to
>> $SaveAttrExcerptLength, default 600 chars) are saved directly
>> into page files. 
>> Lastly, PmWiki has adjusted the way it saves pages so that
>> trail markup no longer generates internal links to other pages
>> on the trail (i.e., trail next and previous links no longer appear
>> in the link index).
>>
>> Comments, questions, suggestions welcome as always.
>>
>> Pm
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