Feed
The feed module aggregates a number of RSS and Atom feeds to display them in a merged list with limited count of items. You can mark a complete feed as read by clicking on the feeds icon or just read an entry of a feed and it will be removed from the list.
Details
Feed module screenshotFeed entries marked as read will disappear so that you can see what you already have read, even if you use several computers with the same portal. You may mark a complete feead as read by clicking on its icon.
On the server side the feeds are fetched using parallel request with conditional gets and are refreshed on the client side every ten minutes without reloading the portal.
You may configure the refetch time per feed module and assign priorities to feeds, which will be indicated by the user interface.
Requirements
PDO/SQLite extension
Curl extension
Configuration
A sample feed configuration may look like:
<module type="feed" id="it_news" name="IT News">
<feeds>
<feed id="Heise">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml</feed>
<feed id="Golem">http://www.golem.de/rss.php?feed</feed>
<feed id="Slashdot" priority="low">http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot</feed>
<feed id="PHP" priority="high">http://planet-php.org/rdf/</feed>
</feeds>
<count>40</count>
<refresh>600</refresh>
</module>The module type is 'feed' and the name defines the title of the block, as usual. You may add any number of feed elements to the feeds group with an ID, which will be used to indicate the feed type in the user interface.
The count defines the maximum number of feed items displayed, while the refresh element defines the time to refetch the feeds in seconds (ten minutes in this example).
Author
Patches by Jakob Westhoff
Comments
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