'Theming' RSS items

Nice workaround bboldi, it works for me. One more question though: Is it possible to apply your method to a specific RSS feed? This way the modification is applied for the node type in every RSS feed. It'd be perfect to have the change just in one feed, in case the node appears in various feeds.

thanks bboldi

it works well for me for changing the teaser since we use a different cck field for our teasers.

Hello,

I have a content type called 'article' and I included the title in my teaser, so now on the rss feed the title is displaying twice. I'm trying to remove the title from the teaser so that it doesn't show in the rss description, so I created a module based on your above code, but for some reason the teaser is not updating. I can update the title fine, but the teaser still displays the contents from my mytheme_article_teaser function. Here is my code to redefine my article teaser without the node title:

function rsstheme_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL)
{
    switch($op)
    {
        case 'rss item':
            if($node->type=='article') {
            	
            	$rssteaser = '';
            	$rssteaser = '<div class="article_teaser">';
				if ($node->iid){
					$image = node_load($node->iid);
					$rssteaser .= l(image_display($image, 'thumbnail'), "node/$node->nid", array(), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE);
				}	
				$rssteaser .= '<p>'.t('%short_summary', array('%short_summary' => $node->short_summary)).'</p>';	
				$rssteaser .= '</div>';
				
                $node->teaser = $rssteaser;
            }              
        break;
    }
}

Any ideas?

Great snippet - works a treat.

Thanks for the solution,
can you give a sample how to replace PubDate with cck date field?

Thanks

Can you give me an example of how you implemented the above module? I'm trying to pull in some extra CCK fields into my RSS feed, but according to http://drupal.org/node/118833 it's not possible out of the box with Views / CCK / Contemplate.

I need my RSS feed items to look more like this:

<item>
 <title>iPhone Finally Released!</title>
 <link>http://mysite.thecreativetrust.com/iphone</link>
 <mainImage>http://www.example.com/image.jpg</mainImage> //custom item
 <hoverText>This is custom hover text</hoverText>  //custom item
 <description></description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
 <guid isPermaLink="false">4 at http://mysite.thecreativetrust.com</guid>
</item>

Is something like this even possible, I've spent all day on it and hit a dead end every time....

The greatest strength is knowing your greatest weakness.

How would one adapt the code examples to hide a specific item from the RSS feed, like the dc: creator tag as originally asked in this thread?
I hope someone can clarify how to do this in Drupal 6.

though I forgot to post it here...

Maybe at some point someone will come up with a better solution...

Based on bboldi's code above, I used $node->name = ''; to remove the username (dc:creator) from the RSS items. So, I created a custom module with the following code in the .module file:

<?php
function mymodule_rss_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL)
{
    switch($op)
    {
        case 'rss item':
       
            if($node->type=='resource')
            {
                     $node->name = '';
            }       
       
        break;
    }
}

This will not remove the dc:creator tag entirely, but it shows as empty in the xml. I believe that doing the same thing with $node->created would meet the need of removing the timestamp from the feed, though, I would guess that having some sort of timestamp for a feed is a good idea. I'm not sure what you would set it to, whether it is a date or a string or whatever.

ereg is deprecated in PHP 5.3+

But you can achieve the above using preg, like so:

$item_elements = preg_replace('<pubDate>.*</pubDate>', '', $item_elements);  // removes pubdate
$item_elements = preg_replace('<dc:creator>.*</dc:creator>', '', $item_elements);  // removes author
$item_elements = preg_replace('<category .*</category>', '', $item_elements);  // removes terms
$item_elements = preg_replace("!^\s+(\D)!m", "\\1", $item_elements);  // removes some blank lines
print $item_elements;

I've a short blog post about this here..

If anyone searches for rss, node_comments module, feed, path etc. here's my status on creating this rss feed.

For some reason, I can't get the following code to work...although it seems like it should.

<?php

/**
* Change the path and title of an RSS item in the Comments RSS Feed
*/
function [my_module]_nodeapi(&$node, $op)
{
    switch($op)
    {
        case 'rss item':
            if($node->type == 'comment')
            {
 		global $base_url;
                $node->title .= ' by  ' . check_plain($node->name);
 		$node->path= $base_url . "/" . drupal_get_path_alias('node/'.$node->comment_target_nid);            
            }       
        break;
    }
}

?>

For some reason my views rss feed isn't being modified by this hook. At least not consistently. I'm still working on it.

In the meantime I just added a javascript redirect to my node-comment.tpl.php file

 <?php if($page): ?>
 	<?php 
 		global $base_url;
 		$url = $base_url . "/" . drupal_get_path_alias('node/'.$node->comment_target_nid); 
 	?>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
			window.location = "<?php echo $url; ?>";
		//-->
	</script>
 <?php endif; ?>

This is working for now.