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#1 2006-09-01 16:51:04

Slaktad

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From: Linköping, Sweden

Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 50

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"X new articles since last visit"

I’m making a site where I collect a quite a lot of RSS-feeds from different sites and output them as articles with the bit_rss plugin. Now, I’d like to output something like “There are X new articles since your last visit” when a visitor returns. How can I do that? I’m not really into PHP, but using chs_cookie would be a good start, wouldn’t it? :S Anyway, I appreciate all tips/suggestions regarding this as it is a quite important function on the site.

#2 2006-09-01 20:31:07

hcgtv

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From: Key Largo, Florida

Registered: 2005-11-29

Posts: 2,722

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Re: "X new articles since last visit"

Since bit_rss relies on SimplePie, I did a quick glance at the Function Reference but didn’t see anything to indicate if a feed item is new.

The reason I looked is I can see a real use for it, maybe we can campaign for such a feature if it doesn’t already exist?

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#3 2006-09-02 07:35:07

Slaktad

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From: Linköping, Sweden

Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 50

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Re: "X new articles since last visit"

Yes, I also think it would be useful for a lot of things.

Couldn’t the get_date() function be used together with a cookie to accomplish this task?

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I also found a plugin for Wordpress that could be of interest: Since last visit

Last edited by Slaktad (2006-09-02 08:08:16)