RSS feed in articles not blocks???

[vanguard]

Any way to tweak the code so the links will open a new window?

[Zetan]

Unfortunately.. and I may be wrong, but I think that it's set by the sites hosting the feed. I could be wrong and hope there is a way, because I like all external links to open in a new window without navigating away from my site.

[IchBin]

Unfortunately.. and I may be wrong, but I think that it's set by the sites hosting the feed. I could be wrong and hope there is a way, because I like all external links to open in a new window without navigating away from my site.

You are correct Zetan. The links are created by the RSS feed. If its not set to open in another windows theres not much you can do about it.

[vanguard]

Thanks guys

[vanguard]

Ok, one more q and I'll leave everyone alone :

I'm no PHP coder, so, I wonder if there is a way to have more than one rss feed render in the same article?

Going to try to find some PHP instruction soon. (Book/whatever.)


Thanks in advance!

[IchBin]

You'll have to use a 3rd party script to do this I think. TP doesn't have any such feature built in.

[vanguard]

Thanks Ich,

This thread featured this code that works great. I wondered if it could be modified slightly:

There is another way to put an rss feed into an article, one I've used for some time.

You will find the TP RSS parse code in TPortal.php, I make a copy of that in the TPortal.php file, one for each RSS feed to be parsed, I also remake these additions with each change to Bloc's TP RSS parsing.

This is for TP 0.97

Find in TPortal.php and copy it

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function TPparseRSS()
{

global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

$backend = $context['TPortal']['rss'];
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$curl = "";

// Now to the parsing itself. Starts by creating it:

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

// Open the actual datafile:

$fp = fopen($backend, "r");

// Run through it line by line and parse:
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
{
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

// Close the datafile
fclose($fp);

// Free any memmory used
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}

Rename the function and put the url in the $backend =

Here is one I have done for Secunia

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// RSS feed from Secunia
function RSSsecunia()
{

global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

  $backend =   'http://secunia.com/information_partner/anonymous/o.rss';
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$curl = "";

// Now to the parsing itself. Starts by creating it:

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

// Open the actual datafile:

$fp = fopen($backend, "r");

// Run through it line by line and parse:
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
{
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

// Close the datafile
fclose($fp);

// Free any memmory used
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}

In the php article (or php block) all you need is to call the function and set the style.

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echo '<div style="padding: 5px;" class="smalltext">';
         RSSsecunia();
         echo '</div>'; 

[wilsy]

Hi all,

I am using the following code which works really well: -

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// TP RSS Article Script

// TP Function
$context['TPortal']['rss_notitles']= false;

// Create An XML Parser
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

// Set The Functions To Handle Opening & Closing Tags
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");

// Set The Function To Handle Blocks Of Character Data
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

// Open The XML File
$fp = fopen("http://feeds.feedburner.com/bbcnewsfrontpagefullfeed?format=xml","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");

// Read The XML File 4KB At A Time
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))

// Parse Each 4KB Chunk With The XML Parser
xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))

// Handle errors in parsing
or die(sprintf("XML Error: %s At Line %d", 
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), 
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));

// Close XML File
fclose($fp);

// Free Up Memory Used By XML Parser
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

I would like to specify the number of items to be called from the feed. Is this possible?

Regards,

Wilsy.

[IchBin]

You have to use a third party script to capture your RSS feed and limit it or change it in any way. TinyPortal does not control the feed in such a way.

[mrdr]

Have you tried to convert the RSS to html script and then used the converted feed in to a script in an article ?

IF you have the RSS feed, you can go here and convert the feed to other code formats.
http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/p/138.html

Great site! I rather use js script for feeds then rss feed block because that speed up tp loading page.