Topic: How to make a RSS Feed for SP Articles?

[processor]

How to make a RSS Feed for SP Articles? Any idea how to approach this?

[oNLy1]

put all the articles into 1 board and RSS Feed the board

Topic: Getting the Most Out of SMF - XML, RSS and RSS2 (and Atom and RDF) feeds

[[SiNaN]]

You could also extend the code handling feeds.

Sources/News.php

Code: (Find) [Select]

'news' => array('getXmlNews', 'article'),

Code: (Replace) [Select]

'news' => array('getXmlNews', 'article'),
'articles' => array('getXmlNews', 'article'),

Code: (Find) [Select]

- are actually the latest posts. */

$done = false;

Code: (Replace) [Select]

- are actually the latest posts. */

$done = false;
if ($_GET['sa'] == 'articles')
{
$request = $smcFunc['db_query']('','
SELECT
m.smileys_enabled, m.poster_time, m.id_msg, m.subject, m.body, m.modified_time,
m.icon, t.id_topic, t.id_board, t.num_replies, b.name AS bname,
mem.hide_email, IFNULL(mem.id_member, 0) AS id_member,
IFNULL(mem.email_address, m.poster_email) AS poster_email,
IFNULL(mem.real_name, m.poster_name) AS poster_name
FROM {db_prefix}sp_articles AS a
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}messages AS m ON (m.id_msg = a.id_message)
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}topics AS t ON (t.id_first_msg = a.id_message)
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}boards AS b ON (b.id_board = m.id_board)
LEFT JOIN {db_prefix}members AS mem ON (mem.id_member = m.id_member)
WHERE {query_see_board}
AND a.approved = {int:approved}
ORDER BY a.id_message DESC
LIMIT {int:limit}',
array(
'approved' => 1,
'limit' => $_GET['limit'],
)
);
$done = true;
}
Then you could use such a query string: ?action=.xml;type=rss;sa=articles;limit=5. Check out the topic linked above on how to customize the feed.

[processor]

That works great Sinan!

I was wondering, i see you have a lot of code ready for Simpleportal, why aren't things like this included in Simpleportal as is?

[[SiNaN]]

Things get a little more complex when you try to include something in a package that's actively used on thousands of forums. I'd probably code the same feature in a different way if I were to add such a functionality. There is also the matter of making sure that the package doesn't get bloated. However, for this particular issue, I may actually come up with something for the new forum independent articles feature.

[processor]

Things get a little more complex when you try to include something in a package that's actively used on thousands of forums. I'd probably code the same feature in a different way if I were to add such a functionality. There is also the matter of making sure that the package doesn't get bloated. However, for this particular issue, I may actually come up with something for the new forum independent articles feature.

I understand, however with those innovations i think hardly anyone would really have anything against it! really looking forward to independent articles feature!

[Cyberkid]

You could also extend the code handling feeds.

Sources/News.php

Code: (Find) [Select]

'news' => array('getXmlNews', 'article'),

Code: (Replace) [Select]

'news' => array('getXmlNews', 'article'),
'articles' => array('getXmlNews', 'article'),

Code: (Find) [Select]

- are actually the latest posts. */

$done = false;

Code: (Replace) [Select]

- are actually the latest posts. */

$done = false;
if ($_GET['sa'] == 'articles')
{
$request = $smcFunc['db_query']('','
SELECT
m.smileys_enabled, m.poster_time, m.id_msg, m.subject, m.body, m.modified_time,
m.icon, t.id_topic, t.id_board, t.num_replies, b.name AS bname,
mem.hide_email, IFNULL(mem.id_member, 0) AS id_member,
IFNULL(mem.email_address, m.poster_email) AS poster_email,
IFNULL(mem.real_name, m.poster_name) AS poster_name
FROM {db_prefix}sp_articles AS a
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}messages AS m ON (m.id_msg = a.id_message)
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}topics AS t ON (t.id_first_msg = a.id_message)
INNER JOIN {db_prefix}boards AS b ON (b.id_board = m.id_board)
LEFT JOIN {db_prefix}members AS mem ON (mem.id_member = m.id_member)
WHERE {query_see_board}
AND a.approved = {int:approved}
ORDER BY a.id_message DESC
LIMIT {int:limit}',
array(
'approved' => 1,
'limit' => $_GET['limit'],
)
);
$done = true;
}
Then you could use such a query string: ?action=.xml;type=rss;sa=articles;limit=5. Check out the topic linked above on how to customize the feed.

what about that articles with pagination and other features that is only limited to portal pages can't add it to any block