[plugin] [ORPHAN] boy_simplepie_feed

tameboy · 2008-02-24 09:13:25

SimplePie Plugin For Textpattern

SimplePie Plugin for Textpattern: a super-fast, easy-to-use RSS and Atom parser.

The up to date documentation for this plugin is currently on the simplepie wiki:

http://simplepie.org/wiki/plugins/textpattern/simplepie_plugin_for_textpattern

I have just taken over the development of this plugin. There seems to be quite a bit of interest in it so I thought I would add this support forum. All comments and ideas welcome (within reason ;) ).

Known Issues

The plugin needs to be updated to comply with plugin naming conventions – hence the title of this support forum. I plan to include this in a 2.0.0 release as it represents quite a change and will involve work for site authors updating their tag names.

Plans for Development

Keep it simple. The ethos will be quick generation of feeds with a minimum of required configuration options.

This need not stop the addition of new features, but it will be considered a requirement that the default installation of the plugin will allow quick and easy to configure use of the SimplePie feed parser.

Last edited by tameboy (2008-02-24 09:14:58)

tameboy · 2008-02-24 09:27:32

hcgtv wrote:

The biggest issue with the plugin is that the layout of the feeds is hard coded in the plugin. So on my sites, no two plugins have the same code base because of the intended purpose of the site. Looking towards the future, the layout should come from a TxP form, rather than hard coded inside the plugin source code. With the ability of having a form per feed, you can have side menu feeds with just a heading and content feeds with the full text of the feed. As it stands now, you can only use the plugin with one look per site, a bit limited.

Thanks hcgtv, I will certainly consider your comments.

colak · 2008-02-27 14:05:57

looking forward to its release

maniqui · 2008-02-27 16:58:45

Great news! :D

tameboy · 2008-02-29 12:52:17

Hi

I will try and get a new version of this plugin out by the end of March. I need to sort out the naming convention issue (see above) and will consider making the layout options more flexible.

Are there any more feature request before I get started on the next version?

Thanks

TB

nardo · 2008-03-03 23:17:37

currently I insert a feed on one page… works fine… when I place the same code on another page, I get an ‘error getting feed’ on that page (the original still works fine)… maybe it’s the fact that a cache file already exists??

this is using the original version – not this one! but just mentioning in case

phual · 2008-03-21 19:02:36

Can someone please tell me what blindingly obvious mistake I’m making with this code:

<txp:feed items=“3” showdesc=“false” showdate=“j F Y” h=“h2”>http://www.cofe.anglican.org/news/news.rss</txp:feed>

It works perfectly except that it uses heading level 3 instead of level 2. It’s so simple, it has to be something obvious I’m doing wrong!

Stuart

phual · 2008-03-21 19:27:44

Actually, I noticed something in the code. Should this line (line 43):

else if ($ftitle != ‘’) $output .= “<h3>$ftitle</h3>”;

actually read like this:

else if ($ftitle != ‘’) $output .= “<{$argv[‘h’]}>$ftitle<{$argv[‘h’]}>”;

Stuart

tameboy · 2008-03-22 02:20:41

Yes you are right, there is an error there, meaning for default feed titles the header tag h3 is output regardless of what you put in the ‘h’ attribute.

I’ll correct that in the next release.

Thanks for finding the solution as well as the problem ;)

merz1 · 2008-03-22 19:34:10

I am using the SimplePie plug-in in many articles to show some Google news for specific topics. I.e. my article about British singer Duffy has the ten latest news on the bottom.

The problem is the ugly whitespace below the item titles. I know that this is not a core plug-in issue but maybe you can have a look at the problem with the Google news feed? A filter for that issue would be welcome :)

Last edited by merz1 (2008-03-22 19:34:54)

tameboy · 2008-03-23 08:04:51

Hi Merz1

Can I ask what version of the plugin you are using? There looks to be all sorts of ugly unnecessary code being generated with your feeds including horrible image spacers and empty div tags. As far as I can see from the current plugin code this should not be happening.

If you haven’t updated to the latest version (1.2.2) please can you try that first. Let me know if the problem persists.

tameboy · 2008-03-23 08:10:22

nardo wrote:

currently I insert a feed on one page… works fine… when I place the same code on another page, I get an ‘error getting feed’ on that page (the original still works fine)… maybe it’s the fact that a cache file already exists??

Will certainly look at the way caching works. I have a problem with ‘error getting feed’ on one of my sites too.

merz1 · 2008-03-23 17:24:58

Tameboy. I am using the 1.2.1. Will check for update. Thanks for mentioning!

OK. Update of the plug-in is done.
All cache files deleted.
The Duffy page still looks the same.

Do you recommend an update of the SimplePie core file too?

170895 Apr 26  2007 simplepie.bak
286097 Dec  3 16:22 simplepie.inc
8192 Mar 21 18:16 simplepie_cache
166 Apr 29  2007 simplepie_image_handler.php

I am not really sure which files can/must be updated. There have been problems with different SimplePie versions before so I think it is better to ask first :)

merz1 · 2008-03-23 17:43:00

Well, I have just updated to SimplePie 1.1.1 by uploading the newest simplepie.inc file from March 15th 2008.

txp:feed works as expected.
Google news ‘Duffy’ feed is still ugly.
My two Hamburg weather feeds look the same as before.

There looks to be all sorts of ugly unnecessary code being generated with your feeds including horrible image spacers and empty div tags. As far as I can see from the current plugin code this should not be happening.

I think the ugly code is coming directly from the Google News feed.

Edit: FYI – The SimplePie demo page also shows the ugly whitespace behavior.

Last edited by merz1 (2008-03-23 18:00:16)

tameboy · 2008-03-26 23:08:13

hi merz1

I just upgraded one of my sites to 1.1.1 and it does seem to work fine with the boy_simplepie_feed plugin. I wanted to test it myself before posting but you beat me to it!

I played around with CSS on your page and found that this gets rid of at least some of the white space:

div.simplepie div {display:none}
div.simplepie ul li table tbody tr td div + div {display:inline}

There is almost certainly a better of way of doing this, but this seems to work so you might want to try adding those styles to your page.

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