RDF/RSS Newsreader module v0.0.2 released (EN)

[RHase]

/edit: title newsreader renamed to RDF/RSS Newsreader

This new release includes the following features:

* support of XML, RDF/RSS 0.90, 0.91, 1.0, 2.0
* configurable update-intervals
* configurable numbers of news-items
* supports 63 codepages: conversion of newsfeed-codings (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ....)
* Displayoptions for newsfeed-logo, item-descriptions
* supports of multiple Sections
* supports Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
* separated newsfeed-data (title, description, link, logo, content, ...) for customizable outputs
* Info/Help and preview of the newsfeed-configuration (WB adminbackend)
* Multilanguage-support (De and En included)

Additional, some "little" bugs have been eliminated...


This new release is organised into two ZIP-files:
(WebsiteBaker does not support ZIP-files with sub-directories -not yet)
1. newsreader_0.0.2.zi p: the base module, installable within the WB adminbackend.
2. newsreader_0.0.2_ad dons.zip: includes images (1), translation-files (De, En), Codepages (63). Manual unzip in the directory "wb/modules".


Downloads:
http://www.muc-net.org/Downloads/Website-Baker/Newsreader/newsreader_0.0.2.zip (25.8 KB)
http://www.muc-net.org/Downloads/Website-Baker/Newsreader/newsreader_0.0.2_addons.zip (200 KB)

english howto coming soon...

german howto with screenshots:
http://howto.hopto.org/HowTos/websitebaker/Newsreader/liesmich

[Francisco]

Hi, do you happen to know if this could work with vBulletin's RSS feeds?

[RHase]

Produce vBulletin valid RDF or RSS newsfeeds (conform to the XML 1.0 specification plus dialect) ?

The RDF/RSS Newsreader module supports XML/RDF/RSS 0.90, 0.91, 1.0, 2.0

[mesto]

How exactly did you install this module ?

I unzipped the newsreader/ folder in wb/modules, then went to http://site/wb/modules/newsreader/install.php, and after that did a reload on all modules. The problem appears when i try to add a Newsreader webpage:

Code:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /hsphere/local/home/mertel/site/modules/newsreader/modify.php on line 61

[ruebenwurzel]

I'm not shure, but this newsreader is written for WB 2.5.x. So if you use 2.6.x you could run into errors. So what can you do?
1.)PM your error to the modul developper, maybe he makes this modul WB 2.6.x compatible.
2.)in WB 2.6.1 there is an RSS reader included in the news modul. So better use this one, but i don't know how to get it to work. Maybe ask Ryan for a short explanation how tu use this RSS Reader.

Matthias

[kibmcz]

I'm not shure, but this newsreader is written for WB 2.5.x. So if you use 2.6.x you could run into errors. So what can you do?
1.)PM your error to the modul developper, maybe he makes this modul WB 2.6.x compatible.
2.)in WB 2.6.1 there is an RSS reader included in the news modul. So better use this one, but i don't know how to get it to work. Maybe ask Ryan for a short explanation how tu use this RSS Reader.

Matthias

THere is a RSS generator built in the the news module (not reader).  The RSS generator works like this:

http://yourdomain.com/modules/news/rss.php?page_id=1 (replace 1 with the page id of the page with the news module.)

[ruebenwurzel]

@kibmcz

you're wright with the rss generator. Sorry for my wrong information. Have had tested it before writing something about in the forum 

Matthias

[rabsaul]

THere is a RSS generator built in the the news module (not reader).  The RSS generator works like this:

http://yourdomain.com/modules/news/rss.php?page_id=1 (replace 1 with the page id of the page with the news module.)

Hm. I just tried the above system with the blog on this site (2.6.2):

http://www.ccpclex.org/pages/blog.php

...and am getting a 404 error. I tried with this URL:

http://ccpclex.org/modules/news/rss.php?page_id=blog

What am I doing wrong?

[kweitzel]

the page ID is a number ... go to zou admin section and then pages and select your blog page for editing. In the URL you will find the page ID like this:

Code:

http://localhost/admin/pages/modify.php?page_id=9

this is my local (test) news page and has the page ID number 9. So in my case the URL to call would be:

Code:

http://localhost/modules/news/rss.php?page_id=9

cheers

Klaus

[rabsaul]

Thanks, Klaus! That looks helpful. I'll give it another shot.

BTW, does that change? I mean, if the page order gets altered, for instance, does that alter the ID?

[kweitzel]

no, as far as i know not. Mazbe unless zou delete a page and create a new one, but even then I think it does an increment ... but I havenät tested that.

cheers

Klaus

[rabsaul]

no, as far as i know not. Mazbe unless zou delete a page and create a new one, but even then I think it does an increment ... but I havenät tested that.

cheers

Klaus

Thanks, Klaus. I think you're right - the blog on the site in question is IDed "16" - and there aren't even that many pages presently on the site. So it must be reserving IDs for deleted pages; hence, the ID wouldn't change.

Or at least, that's how I'm reading the situation.

Good stuff. I hadn't even realized that RSS had been built in. WB is making great strides!

[Francisco]

 I think this thread was hijacked... went offtopic.

 Anyways, I am trying to use this RSS NEWS READER for my RSS news site to display on a WB Page.

 I cannot figure out how to use/configure this module, any help please?

 Does this work with WB 2.6.4?

F

[Francisco]

 On a side note, after modifying the .zip to have info.php in the root of the zip (for it to work with 2.6.4) and then sucessfully installing it using the WB interface.

 I can not un-install this module.

I get:

"Cannot uninstall

Back "

 What can I do?

[Francisco]

On a side note, after modifying the .zip to have info.php in the root of the zip (for it to work with 2.6.4) and then sucessfully installing it using the WB interface.

 I can not un-install this module.

I get:

"Cannot uninstall

Back "

 What can I do?

 UPDATE!! FIX SO YOU CAN UN-INSTALL!

 FTP into your website and into wb/modules search for newsreader, change permissions from 755 to 777 and then un-install thru WB interface. 


 Can someone please PORT this to 2.6.4??

Thanks.

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

attached you find a five minute fixed version for WB 2.6.4. Only changed the info.php, added an uninstall.php added the addons and zipped the files in the wright way. Done a short test, install, uninstall and the funtonality should work.

Have fun

Matthias

Edit:
Newer version some posts below

[Francisco]

Hello,

attached you find a five minute fixed version for WB 2.6.4. Only changed the info.php, added an uninstall.php added the addons and zipped the files in the wright way. Done a short test, install, uninstall and the funtonality should work.

Have fun

Matthias

 You're the man!

 It works like a charm! 

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

new version released. Fixed the issue that uninstalling the modul didn't uninstall the search table entries, wich causes an FATAL ERROR in the search.

Have fun

Matthias

[ridinhighspeeds]

Can someone be kind to supply me with the install manual?? I clicked on the link, but it was a dead link...

[krymmel]

A Danish translation to the module

[Luckyluke]

Hi,

It seems that the new RSS/Atom XML files aren't 100% compatible with this module.
Or am I wrong?

Example:
don't work in this Newsreader module ==> http://www.nieuws.be/rss/nieuws/sint-michiels.rss
but this works ==>  http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_europe.rss

Grtz,
Luc

[Paul - Westhouse IT]

This module requires allow_url_fopen, and therefore won't work on most shared hosting. It would need to be rewritten to use cURL instead. Any alternative modules for "reading" external RSS?