RSS feed for "Recent updates" page
cubicray - September 22, 2007 - 10:50
| Project: | Documentation |
| Component: | Misc |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | won't fix |
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Dear handbook/site maintainers,
Thank you all for your contributions and hard work.
I know there is a Recent updates page, but it's updating so quickly that it's impossible to follow. All it needs is a RSS feed. RSS feeds are invaluable for pages like that. It would make it easier for users to get notified if a certain handbook page, that they have read in the past, has been updated etc.
#1
it's a php generated page, not a category. No RSS feed for it.
#2
I too thought this would be handy so I developed the changesrss module (drupal 5.2).
I've put it at www.lymingtonchurch.org/files/changesrss.zip in case you're interested. To install unzip to sites/all/modules and move the node.module-changesrss on top of the modules/node/node.module. Then enable the Changesrss module.
It sets up site/changesrss to send back the most recent CHANGES rather than creations. Useful on our site because we often update pages, e.g. weekly news, rather than creating a new one, and we still want people to know it's happened. It requires a small (2 lines) change to the node.module to get the changed times attached to the feed rather than the created times. I've included the changed node.module in the zip. You will probably want to edit changesrss.module as I've excluded changes to nodes of type 'event' as they tend to confuse things on our site.
See it at work by comparing www.lymingtonchurch.org/node/feed (latest additions) with www.lymingtonchurch.org/changesrss (latest changes)
HTH, Peter