About using my bit_rss patch:

You could implement the idea I had for an offset attribute in the next version since it will be another kind of offset – one offset for the final results and one offset for every feed. That is when using multiple feeds.

Just a thought.

aks_rss is an RSS parser plugin that takes and aggregate RSS feeds and outputs them as TxP articles.

The part outputs them as TxP articles leads to a big misunderstanding! You are only showing the feeds with their dynamic content inside an article. A better description would be:

aks_rss is an RSS parser plugin that fetches RSS feeds and shows the latest feed content inside TxP articles. It is possible to fetch multiple feeds and aggregate the content in one output.

Compliments for supporting multiple feeds (not tested yet)!

merz1, thanks for the help with the description.
Unfortunately, English is not my native language. :(

JanDW wrote:

makks: When I input multiple feeds, will they get intermingled or will they appear one feed after the other? I’m experiencing the latter one, but I’m hoping it might be something I do, since I’m interested in the former. :-)
I think it would be nice to have a chronological order of multiple feeds in one. :-)

Multiple feeds have a chronological order. Demo page is available now. :)

Also a couple of features that would interest me:
wraptag and break attributes?

All feed items output with TxP form, your may write any html or Txp tags. See sample rss form on demo page.

If multiple feeds are called it would be nice if a css class could be added so that I can style them. Maybe it could use the domainname of the feed?

Well, I think about it.

Last edited by makss (2009-04-21 21:43:22)

Please promote aks_rss here: simplepie.org/wiki/plugins/start

• It would be great if aks_rss and the SimplePie Plugin for Textpattern could be consolidated into one great plug-in.
• The SimplePie Plugin for Textpattern does not offer multi feed fetching!
• The SimplePie Plugin for Textpattern offers more possibilities to control the output.

For a comparison here is the documentation for the standard SimplePie plug-in:

SimplePie Plugin for Textpattern adds one tag to your Textpattern installation: the <txp:feed> tag. Here’s how you use it:

1. <txp:feed>http://example.com/feed.xml</txp:feed> — To load a feed on your Textpattern pages, simply wrap the feed URL with <txp:feed> tags. Doing this with no attributes will display the default way:
   • An <h3> containing the feed’s title, linked back to the originating site.
   • An unordered list, containing all of the news items in the feed.
   • The news item’s title, linked back to the originating post.
   • The full HTML description for each news item.
2. items attribute — Limits the number of items returned. If you set this value to 5, then you’ll get back the 5 most recent posts. If there’s a feed with fewer than 5 posts, SimplePie will return all of them. Defaults to all.
3. showdesc attribute — Determines whether the description should be shown or not. If set to false, descriptions are omitted, and the ordered list will display only the linked item titles with no special formatting. Defaults to true.
4. showdate attribute — Displays the date of the news item. Accepts anything that’s allowed in PHP’s date() function. Defaults to blank.
5. shortdesc attribute — Strips all tags from the item’s description and limits the number of characters that are displayed. Accepts any numeric value. If more characters are allowed than are in the description, the entire description will be displayed. If the text wasn’t cut at the end of a sentence (ending with a period, exclamation point, or question mark), an ellipsis will be added to the end of the text. Defaults to all characters.
6. showtitle attribute — Determines whether the built-in feed title is displayed or not. Defaults to true.
7. alttitle attribute — Displays a custom title in place of the feed’s built-in title. If “-1” is entered no title is displayed (removes the built-in title too). Defaults to blank.
8. h attribute – Define the html header used for the title (eg h4) defaults to h3.
9. listtype attribute – defines the list type. Eg listtype=“ol” will give an ordered list. Defaults to “ul”.
10. error keyword — Displays a custom error message for when there is a problem retrieving the feed. Defaults to the standard error messages.

Last edited by merz1 (2009-04-22 00:48:45)