How can I include a feed?

[BsNoSi]

There is a plugin for offering a feed to other sites. Is there a simple solution for including feeds from other pages?

Additionally to my very rare time for personal investigations I have to admit, that my knowledge about php is poor. I can read it (laborious) and modify it (trial and error…), but this is not enough for creating something (like that) from scratch.

[markseuffert]

Sorry, the feed plugin shows only changes from your own website. To show feeds from other websites you can use any PHP code to display an RSS feed.

[BsNoSi]

;) "any PHP code to display" is my challenge. I did not find something that looks reusable to me for creating a plugin (I admit: I didn't spend currently much time on searching). Coding directly within a template is a quite good hint, that makes it easier for me. Thanks! (Success will be documented here)

[creamyshot]

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[schulle4u]

I'm using a simple script based on simplexml_load_file function which is already included in php5, so no need for extra classes like magpie or something.
http://webdesign.weisshart.de/rss2html.php

Explanations are in german, the script itself however is fairly simple to use. A drawback is missing caching functionality, but for me this isn't a problem yet.

1. Create a new yellow content snippet based on one of the existing snippets, e.g. copy content-main.php to content-home.php, content-about.php or whatever your page is which should parse the feed.
2. Paste the html2rss function at the beginning of content-home.php.
3. At the end of the same file, right after the line:
   <?php echo $yellow->page->getContent() ?>
   you can add your RSS parser like this:
   <?php echo rss2html("http://www.domain.tld/feed/",3); ?>
   The 3 in this example states that we want to parse the latest 3 items from this feed, you of course may adjust this to your needs.
4. Now create a file called home.html in your system/themes/templates directory and add the following:
   <?php $yellow->snippet("header") ?>
<?php $yellow->snippet("content-sidebar") ?>
<?php $yellow->snippet("content-home") ?>
<?php $yellow->snippet("footer") ?>

Thats it. Not an elegant solution, but it works for my purposes. Maybe my next challenge is to transform this into a plugin.

HTH
Steffen

[BsNoSi]

Thank you! That seems to be the thing, I was looking for. I will try this next week.