RSS for Authors
jyork - March 17, 2008 - 01:35
| Project: | Bibliography Module |
| Version: | 5.x-1.4 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I have not seen anything about this and I wonder if it would be possible to add RSS feeds to pages that show the works of each Author in the bibliography. I am just learning to write modules so I may be able to work on this if I have an idea of what would need to be done.
Thank you very much,
Jeremy
#1
Could you clarify, do you mean a separate feed for each author or a feed sorted by author?
I think this would be pretty easy to do if we just add an rss option the the regular author url, so the rss url would be
example.com/biblio/author/jeremy/rss.xml then instead of calling the show results function we would just call a slightly modified version of biblio_feed and that should be all there is to it.
Ron.
#2
I just added this to the -dev version. It took just a couple of lines of code.
So now you can use a url like http://example.com/biblio/author/jeremy/rss.xml to get the listings for that author.
Ron.
#3
Thank you very much for this, Ron. I'm one of several people I've noticed who are using your module for a university faculty publications hub. This is huge for what we are trying to do and I really appreciate it. I've been going through your code and am having a hard time finding which part relates specifically to this functionality. If you have a minute it would be great if you could direct me to the parts that make it work.
Thank you very much again,
Jeremy
#4
Hi Jeremy,
Unfortunately, the 5.x branch has developed into a bit of a mess which I'm trying to rectify in the upcoming 6.x version.
That being said, there were only a few changes required, and they were...
In biblio_db_search() at line 2319 I added
case 'rss.xml':$rss = TRUE;
break;
This detects the fact that we want an RSS feed.
Then at line 2429 I added this conditional which branches based on the value of $rss
if ($rss){
biblio_feed($result, $title);
}
else
{
return biblio_show_results($result, $pager_attrib, $args,$inline);
}
So if $rss is true, then we create a feed rather than displaying the results.
Lastly, I made a couple of modifications to biblio_feed() at line 1910. This function used to take no arguments, but I added $result and $title and gave them both default values of NULL so that the function would behave the same as it did without arguments. Now you just pass a db result pointer and a title and a feed is created.
Ron.
#5
Hi Ron,
Thank you very much. I'm starting to get the hang of this, but I'm not quite there yet. I really appreciate your help and all of your work on this module.
Jeremy