Drupal
Managing RSS with ‘Managing News’
by admin on Apr.03, 2010, under CMS, Drupal
As we watched some abandon their RSS programs in the past couple of years, such as SimplePie and RSSFwd, it’s refreshing to now discover that others have chosen to dip their toes into the RSS waters.
One such Open Source effort now under way is from a group calling itself “Managing News.” (continue reading…)
Integrating Feed 2 Javascript into Drupal
by admin on Nov.22, 2009, under Drupal
One of the more annoying things about Drupal, including Drupal 6, it in its handling of RSS feeds. The included aggregator does not exactly inspire confidence in the placement of feeds into that Content Management System (CMS).
Feed2js (long name: Feed to Javascript) is a viable option to use to display your feeds. What follows is a “how-to,” should you want to look beyond Drupal’s meager module offerings. (continue reading…)
Use SimplePie as a standalone without a module in Drupal 5/6
by admin on Nov.22, 2009, under CMS, Drupal
SimplePie as a standalone entity in Drupal.
Why would you want to do that?
Well, modules that use SimplePie as part of their coding reconfigure it to make it work with their module. Some even publish feed items as nodes – and that’s fine if that’s what you want to do.
But what if you just want to put a simple feed in a block or a page without all the baggage from a module? Sorry, folks, those modules won’t help you do that. Their sole reason for existence is to take SimplePie and mold it into their code – not use SimplePie by itself.
However, you can get around that. (continue reading…)
