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Atom Syndicator v1.0

Category: Website Integration

Compatibility: Invision Board 1.3 Final

Demo: http://ipbsdk.sourceforge.net/atom/

Description:

This mod allows you to create a Atom feed which can allow visitors, and other sites syndicate your content. This mod generates Atom 0.3 feeds.

Features
- Export from one forum, multiple forums, or all forums
- Limit amount of exported news
- Ability to follow or ignore forum permissions
- Ability to show different content to different users
- Generates valid Atom
- Applies an XSLT transformation to give users more information on how to apply a feed, and so the user will not see XML.

Requires: IPB SDK 1.1

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For anyone interested the W3C are currently looking at establishing a Atom Working Group. http://www.w3.org/2004/05/10-atom. This is W3C inviting Atom, not the other way around. They're currently stuck between whether to establish at the IETF or W3C, and Google have chosen Atom.

http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/atom/W3cInvi...ngGroupProposal
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/?id=475

Definetly an emerging technology

Well.. I started feeling unnatural male feelings for you after I saw you made a atom syndicator.. it was a lets-get-married-and-run-away-together love but after fiddling for a while with the files and a couple of atom readers without getting them to display any kind of description, I'm back to normal

My feeds are valid but empty.
Now I notice that your demo has the same behavior... shouldn't it display an excerpt of the post?

btw, in atom.php I've changed the $items "id" from
< id >'.$settings['feed_website'].'?p='.$i['tid'].'< /id >
to:
< id >'.$settings['board_uri'].'?p='.$i['tid'].'< /id >
because the links were myforum.tld?p=xxx

This post has been edited by rbl: May 18 2004, 04:52 AM

Hi there,

The id is only a permenant ID for the post which should never change. Most readers should ignore it anyway, it's the text/html alternative link for that item which matters

The only description is displays is the description of the topic itself, it doesn't display the first post as the description. Sure it's possible, it's SDK so should be a case of just changing the array key used

The feed works well on my built in RSS reader in FireFox, I believe I'm using the atom feed, but I'll check tonight just incase I'm using the RSS feed.

Switched my RSS reader to read from Atom, works for me.

the descriptions in your demo are also empty. is this normal?

Its because the topics dont have any descriptions. If you go to the actually IPB SDK forum's announcements, you'll see all topics have 0 descriptions. So yes, its normal

Okay....

1. In my RSS reader it says:



I know how to change the thing after the ON, but how do I completely disable that?

2. How do I get it to fetch from multiple forums? In the config file I have:



Yet it only fetches from forum ID 1.

Please help! Thanks

The way to do it is "forumid" => array(1,18,19,20),

Cow

Cool!!

Thanks. But how do I get read of the "on mywebsite.com" thing after the "By myname"?

Huge thanks for the quick response.

Hey,

I didn't understand your question:) Where did you want this to be shown?

Cow

No....when I go on Bloglines this is how it looks:



1. I don't want "on website" to be there! Why is that there?? It says that on all of them....

2. On EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE it says it is posted the correct date, but then updated the next day, even though it never was.

So if I posted something on the 21st, it would say:



More examples:








So how do I fix these problems?

I don't know whether these are actually problems with the mod or the software. There is a setting in atom_config.php to change the website name, and the modified/created/posted date should be the same. Could you post the URL to your feed for further investigation?

Cow

http://www.dailybyte.net/atom59/

Looks fine to me. Probably the parser.. Hm