By cpill on

So,

I want to create a RSS feed for the image gallery module (does Gallery2 do this?), but it would be handly to be able to slap a custom RSS feed on any group of nodes, by custom I mean, change the link attribute to point to an image/video/torrent whatever.

I don't understand what hooks I need to override. I know the hook_nodeapi lets you ADD to an existing feed, but I don't think Image Galleys have their own(?). I guess I could make a View to do this but would it put the image URL as the link for each item, I fear not.

I can't find any documentation on this. Is there something I'm missing?

Actually, what I'm try to do it create an XML document for a Flash image rotator (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Image_Rotator) for which I want to use the SWFTools for (currently I think they manage file uploading, but it makes more sense to just use the Image Gallery module: why double up on functionality?)

Help appreciated.

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cpill commented

Anyone...?

Alexander Whillas
Taylor Square Designs
Berlin, Germany

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cpill commented

I read something that implied that RSS could be generated via Views, is this possible?

Alexander Whillas
Taylor Square Designs
Berlin, Germany

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ivan zugec commented

I dont know if gallery 2 creates a rss feed.
But when you create a view using Views you do get a RSS feed automatically generated.

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cpill commented

This might be just what I need, however I might need to modify the RSS feed to do a Flickr style feed. Is it possible to add stuff to the feed for images say...?

Alexander Whillas
Taylor Square Designs
Berlin, Germany

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cpill commented

Just an update it seems you can extent the views_rss module via this comment:

http://drupal.org/node/104875#comment-212259

and better RSS support ion views might underway:

http://drupal.org/node/93302

Hopefully eliminating the need to hack so much ...

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Leeteq commented

See this one:
http://drupal.org/project/mediarss

And this one:
http://drupal.org/node/104875

"These two projects add enclosure tags around media files and add them to the RSS feeds."
- http://drupal.org/project/filefield_views_rss (for the filefield cck module)
- http://drupal.org/project/link_views_rss (for the link cck module)

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dman commented

Yes indeed.
mediarss grew out of piclens.module which now supports a bunch of image gallery -> rss : media attachments.
Using RSS/XML as a means to communicate with your own flash feeds is the best design decision around.
I think, anyway

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