Textpattern Support Forum

Me again.

makss: if you are preparing any update, you may want to consider the following feedback :)

<txp:aks_rssclass /> doesn’t do things on a very “textpatternish way”, imho.
Why? It tries to resolve “more” than what is needed, or said using other words: it outputs more than the necessary.
It currently outputs class='example-com', so it just can be used for adding a class attribute to an HTML element (of course… it’s aks_rssclass!).

So, what’s the problem? If you want to add another class to the same element that you are adding <txp:aks_rssclass />, you can’t. Or even if you want to add just that class, but add some sufix or prefix, you can’t either

IMHO, a better solution (a more “textpatternish” solution) would just been a tag that outputs just example-com, let’s name it aks_rss_source (or something like that).

That will let us do things like:

Multiple classes:
<li class="<txp:aks_rss_source /> another-class"> ==> <li class="youtube-com another-class">

Custom classes (helpful if you already used the class somewhere else or if you want to create different classes for different HTML inside each feed item):
<li class="<txp:aks_rss_source />-feed-item"> ==> <li class="you-tube-feed-item">

Unique IDs (may be usefu for scripting)
<li id="<txp:aks_rss_source />-<txp:rvm_counter />"> ==> <li id="you-tube-1">
<li id="<txp:aks_rss_source />-<txp:rvm_counter />"> -> <li id="you-tube-2">

One more comment

• aesthetically, I would prefer an underscore separating the plugin name from the particular tag name: <txp:aks_rss_class />, <txp:aks_rss_title />, <txp:aks_rss_link />,

And, finally, a question about an attribute:

remove_div (optional)
This attribute allows you to strip that div out.

What does it do? I don’t get it.

Thanks again.

Re. remove_div: Pls. check SimplePie doc before removing an option. In my experience all options supportes by SimplePie do make sense.

Hi makss,

I wonder how/if the <txp:author /> works, as I’m fetching a feed that has <author>memail.com</author>, but then, <txp:author /> doesn’t return anything.

Also, I’m also trying to create a custom feed (reading both your tutorial and using rah_external_output to keep the feed out of the TXP section and articles machinery), to fetch the comments counting. I’m following this tutorial: Extending SimplePie to parse Unique RSS Feeds.
Do you have any particular advice, tip or tricks on how to get aks_rss to fetch custom feeds that has some particular fields?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, makss.

I am testing your plugin at this educational web, and it works perfectly. The problem is that I want to link to a Flickr pool, but not to show the title and date info. I would prefer rather to show the thumbnail image of each photography. This information is available in the Flickr rss feed, as seen at this piece of code:

<media:thumbnail url="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/3935637540_713b5e9b02_s.jpg" height="75" width="75" />.

Can your plugin do this? If ‘yes’, what code have I to use in order to achieve it? If ‘not’, I think this one would be a great feature to ad to future versions of the plugin.

Thanks anyway for your plugin (sometimes ago I tested another SimpePie plugin based without any results).

Last edited by pompilos (2009-09-20 01:06:13)

@aslsw66 One trick to tidy up RSS feeds is to let them run through FeedBurner first.

@pompilos The same might work for you. Of course all feed info will remain. To clean a feed from specific content you have to use Yahoo pipes.

FeedBurner Make sure to activate the ‘SmartFeed’ feature in ‘Optimize’.

Last edited by merz1 (2009-12-01 14:09:30)