Editing the RSS/Atom output?

Mary · 2006-05-01 04:44:05

Actually, I didn’ ask why RSS 2.0 wasn’t supported…

You asked:

If RSS 0.92 doesn’t have it, then why isn’t TXP using a newer version of RSS?

And Kurt told you and gave you the exact same link Alex just did. Stop reading in attitude that’s not there.

Astarte: you could put it in the body of your article and it’d show up in your feed, however you like.

Astarte · 2006-05-01 05:04:57

Yes, Mary, I thought of that, but I don’t really want to have the author data in every body of every post that we write… especialy when you can get to it from the database. It’s alright, this has just made it clear to me that perhaps I bit off more than I’m ready to chew with TXP.

I posted a snippet of what I was trying to do and received no help for it, so just forget it. I don’t need anymore lectures on how busy everyone is.

I’m sad that I’ll be migrating away from TXP, now, but this is one more relatively small thing in a pile of small things that has grown too big for me to be able to want to use it, anymore. I thought it would be a grand thing, but I don’t have the time to learn enough PHP in order to fill in the holes for my particular needs. When it came to investigating how other pieces of software handle feeds, I found their templating systems to be very easy to work with, and very easy to change in the event that the neer-solid specifications change.

By the way, the Atom feed came very close to fulfilling our needs, but not quite close enough, unfortunately. Probably the fault of the feed-readers, but shrug. Bloglines picked up the auther, but didn’t pick up the categories, even though it looks like they’re in place. FeedBurner didn’t pick up either, but posted a posted on date that didn’t appear when we were using the RSS.

I actually migrated /from/ Wordpress to Textpattern and spent about a year championing how good Textpattern was, but right now I’m a half-time college student and a full-time software engineer at a company not using PHP, so I can’t really afford to spend a lot of time learning it so that I can fill in the gaps, no matter how badly I want to. As it is, I’ve wasted an entire day trying to do something that should have taken a couple of hours at best.

Oh well, live and learn. Good luck.

Last edited by Astarte (2006-05-01 05:08:03)

zem · 2006-05-01 06:25:42

I don’t need anymore lectures on how busy everyone is.
[…]
I don’t have the time to learn enough PHP in order to fill in the holes for my particular needs.

Nuff said.

Astarte · 2006-05-01 19:12:21

Yeah, Alex. That’s exactly why I said it in exactly that way. I thought I was prepared to use a product that required a lot of my intervention because I wanted to learn. I found out, however, that I’m not ready for that – particularly when getting help seems to be such a big deal. I don’t understand how taking a few more minutes beyond snarky responses to show me how I prepend a string to the body was so difficult. If it were C or Java I’d have it set, but PHP is a language I still don’t know well enough to figure out why, whenever I tried, the script failed. A simple answer to the question was all I was looking for, not a lecture on standards.

But, I’ve already spent too much valuable time thinking about this. I’m just going to go to a product that I don’t have to develop in order to use.

As I said, good luck and I wish you all the best.

Mary · 2006-05-01 20:59:13

No one’s been snarky to you, but whatever.

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