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Mikez
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Don't get me wrong I love geeklog.
But it just has one flaw that is making me change.
It can not deal with all the information I need to put out.
I am using it as a community website.
The school, local news, extra. Every thing you would see in a news paper.
But you only have room for a hand full of news articles on the front page.
It would be easily fixed if I was able to put rss feeds into the news and static pages.
I know we can put them in boxes. But it looks like a bunch of over crowded information all down the one side of my site that no one likes or uses.
But it just has one flaw that is making me change.
It can not deal with all the information I need to put out.
I am using it as a community website.
The school, local news, extra. Every thing you would see in a news paper.
But you only have room for a hand full of news articles on the front page.
It would be easily fixed if I was able to put rss feeds into the news and static pages.
I know we can put them in boxes. But it looks like a bunch of over crowded information all down the one side of my site that no one likes or uses.
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Location:The Netherlands, where else?
You can call these direct from the database, using the stories by topic block (http://www.geeklog.net/filemgmt/index.php?id=564), or the 'previous 7 sories block' (http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=55962), and put one or more of these in a block or centerblock. There's no need for parsing feeds that way.
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Dutch Geeklog sites about camping/hiking:
www.kampeerzaken.nl | www.campersite.nl | www.caravans.nl | www.caravans.net
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It's been a while since I used this but this will allow feeds in staticpages in which you can then make show up on the homepage. Put this function in lib-custom.php
// *************************************************************************************
// Custom RDF / RSS feed on static page
// *************************************************************************************
function static_rdf($blockid = false) {
$error = array();
if ($blockid != false && is_numeric($blockid) && $blockid != "") {
global $_TABLES;
if (DB_getItem( $_TABLES['blocks'], 'type', "bid = '{$blockid}'" ) == 'portal') {
$sql = "SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(rdfupdated) as date, content, rdfurl FROM {$_TABLES['blocks']} WHERE bid = '" . $blockid . "'";
$result = DB_query( $sql );
$A = DB_fetchArray( $result );
if ( COM_rdfCheck($blockid, $A['rdfurl'], $A['date'] ))
{
$A['content'] = DB_getItem( $_TABLES['blocks'], 'content',
"bid = '{$blockid}'" );
}
$return = $A['content'];
} else {
$error[] = 'Block is not of Portal Type';
}
} else {
$error[] = 'Is not a valid BlockID';
}
if (count($error) > 0) {
$return = "Something is wrong with the blockid that you entered. Fix this. Otherwise there could be issues";
$return .= '<ul>';
for ( $x = 0; count($error) > $x; $x++ ) {
$return .= '<li>' . $error[$x] . '</li>';
}
$return .= "</ul>";
}
return $return;
}
// *************************************************************************************
- Create a block and make sure the block type is a portal block.
- Create a staticpage and call the function static_rdf and pass in the block id of the block you just made.
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// *************************************************************************************
// Custom RDF / RSS feed on static page
// *************************************************************************************
function static_rdf($blockid = false) {
$error = array();
if ($blockid != false && is_numeric($blockid) && $blockid != "") {
global $_TABLES;
if (DB_getItem( $_TABLES['blocks'], 'type', "bid = '{$blockid}'" ) == 'portal') {
$sql = "SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(rdfupdated) as date, content, rdfurl FROM {$_TABLES['blocks']} WHERE bid = '" . $blockid . "'";
$result = DB_query( $sql );
$A = DB_fetchArray( $result );
if ( COM_rdfCheck($blockid, $A['rdfurl'], $A['date'] ))
{
$A['content'] = DB_getItem( $_TABLES['blocks'], 'content',
"bid = '{$blockid}'" );
}
$return = $A['content'];
} else {
$error[] = 'Block is not of Portal Type';
}
} else {
$error[] = 'Is not a valid BlockID';
}
if (count($error) > 0) {
$return = "Something is wrong with the blockid that you entered. Fix this. Otherwise there could be issues";
$return .= '<ul>';
for ( $x = 0; count($error) > $x; $x++ ) {
$return .= '<li>' . $error[$x] . '</li>';
}
$return .= "</ul>";
}
return $return;
}
// *************************************************************************************
- Create a block and make sure the block type is a portal block.
- Create a staticpage and call the function static_rdf and pass in the block id of the block you just made.
One of the Geeklog Core Developers.
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