[pmwiki-users] New recipe, PmFeed 0.01

[Roman]

On 6/6/06, Chris Cox <ccox at airmail.net> wrote:
> Roman wrote:
> > On 6/5/06, Chris Cox <ccox at airmail.net> wrote:
> >> I created yet another RSS feed displayer called PmFeed.  It uses lastRSS
> >> and embeds it (so you don't have to download separately).  I needed
> >> a good feed displayer, and the other recipes didn't work out well
> >> for me... so I figured I might as well share what I came up with.
> >
> > I like the lightweightness of this recipe. It also solves some
> > problems that I have with magpie based one. Here are my comments and
> > suggestions:
> >
> > - It is recommended to have only one <h1> on a page, so I suggest to
> > change the feed title to <h2>
>
> Actually based on a suggestion I got from the list, I will
> make these configurable.  Just haven't made the change yet.
> You'll be able to change the element usage probably with
> variables...
>
> > - All elements of an RSS item are optional - there are feeds that
> > don't have item link. PmFeed does not show titles of such feed items.
>
> :)  I'll see what I can do... do you have some examples?  That
> would help me out.

My example is unfortunately in intranet. But I dïd some Google search
and here are some randomly selected examples. In case that item link
is empty (<link />) or completely omitted PmFeed does not show any
title (just bullet).

(:pmfeed feed='http://www.ninremixes.com/shell/news.xml':)
(:pmfeed feed='http://www.svo-nrw.de/rss/news.xml':)

> > - Is there a reason to have cache in wiki/pub directory? I would
> > choose a directory not accessible from outside.
>
> Hmmm... didn't know that most people made their pubs accessible.
> Just set $PmFeedCacheDir in your config.php to go somewhere
> else (before pmfeed.php is included).  Is there a better default?
> Feel free to suggest something.  At least it is settable today.

/wiki.d/cache or /cache

> > - I think that pubDate should be displayed after the item title
> > (useful for feeds that don't change so often)
>
> Sounds like a good add.
>
> > - There are lot of feeds that don't have just simple text in item
> > description but also some HTML elements, for example links. Such
> > elements are stripped by PmFeed. Could it be changed to keep the
> > content of CDATA and display it without any modification?
>
> My recipes tend to disallow arbitrary HTML... but
> that's probably more of "me" disallowing it.  I'll see if
> I can add it as an option (even if I personally think it could
> mess up many things on a PmWiki page).

Feeds with "rich" item descriptions are quite common. Most often
reasons to use them are links and/or more paragraphs. Try for example
this feed in desktop reader and then in PmFeed. With stripping tags
you lose lot of useful links.

(:pmfeed feed='http://feeds.feedburner.com/NickBradbury':)

> >
> > Thank you
>
> Thank you for the good suggestions and ideas,
> Chris
>
>
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