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Description

The RSS/Atom feeder based on SimplePie 1.2 which is already included in the package: http://github.com/rmccue/simplepie/downloads

Requirements

  • MODX Revolution 2.0.0-RC-2 or later
  • PHP5 or later

Download

It can be downloaded from within the MODX Revolution manager via Package Management, or from the MODX Extras Repository, here: https://modx.com/extras/package/spiefeed or here: https://modx.com/extras/package/spiefeed

Development and Bug Reporting

spieFeed is stored and developed in GitHub, and can be found here:https://github.com/goldsky/spiefeed

Bugs can be filed here: https://github.com/goldsky/spiefeed/issues

Usage

spieFeed is used by placing the Snippet call into your content and passing a 'url' parameter:

[[!spieFeed? &setFeedUrl=`http://path.com/to/my/rss.feed.rss`]]

For multiple sources can call this

http://feeds.feedburner.com/modx-announce | http://www.voanews.com/templates/Articles.rss?sectionPath=/russian/news

separated by pipe ( | ) symbol(s).

Available Properties

Name Description Options Default
setFeedUrl URL of the feed to retrieve. Any URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/modx-announce
enableCache This option allows you to disable caching all-together in SimplePie. However, disabling the cache can lead to longer load times. info `0 1`
enableOrderByDate Sometimes feeds don't have their items in chronological order. By default, SimplePie will re-order them to be in such an order. With this option, you can enable/disable the reordering of items into reverse chronological order if you don't want it. info `0 1`
setCacheDuration Set the minimum time (in seconds) for which a feed will be cached. info integers in seconds 3600
setCacheLocation Set the file system location (not WWW location) where the cache files should be written. The cache folder should be make or error will be returned. info core/components/spiefeed/cache
setFaviconHandler Set the handler to enable the display of cached favicons. info [str image handler file], [query] false, "i"
setItemLimit Set the maximum number of items to return per feed with Multifeeds. This is NOT for limiting the number of items to loop through in a single fee For that, you want to pass $start and $length parameters to get_items(). info integer null
setJavascript Set the query string that triggers SimplePie to generate the JavaScript code for embedding media files. info javascript query string parameter js
stripAttributes Set which attributes get stripped from an entry's content. The default set of attributes is stored in the property SimplePie?strip_attributes, not to be confused with the method SimplePie?strip_attributes().This way, you can modify the existing list without having to create a whole new one. info attributes get stripped from an entry"s content array("bgsound", "class", "expr", "id", "style", "onclick", "onerror", "onfinish", "onmouseover", "onmouseout", "onfocus", "onblur", "lowsrc", "dynsrc")
stripComments Set whether to strip out HTML comments from an entry's content. info `0 1`
stripHtmlTags Set which HTML tags get stripped from an entry's content. The default set of tags is stored in the property SimplePie?strip_htmltags, not to be confused with the method SimplePie?strip_htmltags(). This way, you can modify the existing list without having to create a whole new one. info HTML tags get stripped from an entry"s content array("base", "blink", "body", "doctype", "embed", "font", "form", "frame", "frameset", "html", "iframe", "input", "marquee", "meta", "noscript", "object", "param", "script", "style")
dateFormat Date format supports anything that works with PHP's date() function. Only supports the English language. info PHP"s date() "j F Y, g:i a"
localDateFormat Returns the date/timestamp of the posting in the localized language. Date format supports anything that works with PHP's strftime() function. To display in other languages, you need to change the locale with PHP's setlocale() function. The available localizations depend on which ones are installed on your web server. info PHP"s strftime() of the posting in the localized language. setlocale() matters. "%c"
getItemStart Returns an array of SimplePie_Item references for each item in the feed, which can be looped through. info integers 0
getItemLength Returns an array of SimplePie_Item references for each item in the feed, which can be looped through. info integers 0
forceFSockopen If cURL is available, SimplePie will use it instead of the built-in fsockopen functions for fetching remote feeds. This config option will force SimplePie to use fsockopen even if cURL is installed. info `0 1`
setInputEncoding Allows you to override the character encoding of the feed. This is only useful for times when the feed is reporting an incorrect character encoding (as per RFC 3023 and Determining the character encoding of a feed). This setting is similar to set_output_encoding(). The number of supported character encodings depends on whether your web host supports mbstring, iconv, or both. See Supported Character Encodings for more information. info http://simplepie.org/wiki/faq/supported_character_encodings false
setOutputEncoding Allows you to override SimplePie's output to match that of your webpage. This is useful for times when your webpages are not being served as UTF-8. This setting will be obeyed by handle_content_type(), and is similar to set_input_encoding(). It should be noted, however, that not all character encodings can support all characters. If your page is being served as ISO-8859-1 and you try to display a Japanese feed, you'll likely see garbled characters. Because of this, it is highly recommended to ensure that your webpages are served as UTF-8. The number of supported character encodings depends on whether your web host supports mbstring, iconv, or both. See Supported Character Encodings for more information. info http://simplepie.org/wiki/faq/supported_character_encodings "UTF-8"
sortBy Allow you to sort the result by one of the available placeholders placeholders date
sortOrder The sorting order ASC DESC
tpl Template chunk name defaultSpieFeedTpl
rowCls Class name for each row class name spie-row
firstRowCls Class name for the first row class name spie-first-row
lastRowCls Class name for the last row class name spie-last-row
oddRowCls Class name for the odd row class name spie-odd-row
&debug (1.5-pl) Debug mode, to return Simple Pie's error `0 1`
&toArray (1.5-pl) Return the result as an array `0 1`
&emptyMessage (1.5-pl) Custom message on the empty return anything

Available Placeholders

  • favicon
  • link
  • title
  • description
  • content
  • permalink
  • imageLink
  • imageTitle
  • imageUrl
  • imageWidth
  • imageHeight
  • date
  • localDate
  • copyright
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • language
  • encoding
  • authorName
  • authorLink
  • authorEmail
  • category
  • contributor
  • getType
  • itemImageThumbnailUrl
  • itemImageWidth
  • itemImageHeight

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