[pmwiki-devel] Cookbook proposal: BlogIt-RSS

[DaveG]

On 6/22/2010 7:07 AM, Markus Konrad wrote:
> Hi there!
> I love BlogIt, but I always found the solution for making RSS-feeds for
> it that is described at
> http://www.bekolay.org/wiki/Tutorials/PmWikiBlogAdministration somewhat
> unsatisfying. First of all, the configuration is not very simple,
> especially for beginners. Next, the RSS feed is not in sync with the
> blog posts on your website if you, for example, delete a post.
> So I've created a simpler solution using pagelists and put it into a
> cookbook, so it's easy to set up. Please have a look at it at
> http://www.hello-it.eu/uploads/blogit-rss.zip
> Here is a configuration sample:
>
> //RSS for BlogIt (always add these lines AFTER you have included the BlogIt
> //script!)
> // Define a page under which the RSS feed will be available. This page
> does not
> // have to exist, it is just for the RSS feed URL, which will be like:
> // http://yoursite.com/index.php/Newsfeeds/Blog
> $bi_RSSPage = 'Newsfeeds.Blog';
> // Enter the group in which your blog entries are always posted.
> $bi_RSSGroup = $bi_DefaultGroup;
>
> include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/blogit-rss.php");
>
> What do you think of it (this goes especially out to the author of
> BlogIt, DaveG ;)? Shall I release it as a Cookbook or should it be
> integrated into BlogIt?
Firstly, thanks for taking the time to do this. Incorporating the config 
for RSS feed setup has been on the todo list for a while, but the 
instructions from Bekolay removed any urgency on my part. I think your 
cookbook is another excellent step to making the config easier.

Unfortunately right now I don't have time to incorporate the ideas into 
BlogIt, but I will shift the RSS request up the queue, so it will be 
incorporated in some form sooner, not later.

In the interim perhaps setup this up as a separate recipe; feel free to 
add links to it from the BlogIt page.

A few quick comments on the recipe:
  - FeedText() function ignores PmWiki permissions on the page. So this 
will display pages that users may not have permissions to see.
  - You are assuming that all pages in the Blog group are BlogIt pages, 
which may not be true. You'd need to check for PTV entrytype=='blog'.


  ~ ~ Dave