Overriding Feed Output
I have a podcast archive feature on a web site I'm porting to Drupal. I've created the appropriate content types with a CCK link field for the remotely-hosted Mp3 files, views for listing them, and themed nodes for browsing. But because my Mp3's are remote (and not file attachments) they aren't automatically made enclosures in my RSS feeds. It seems the Remote Enclosure module would be my solution for Drupal 5, but I'm using 6. (Incidentally, I found that someone submitted their own port of the module, which I downloaded and which worked, but I'd kind of like to just use the CCK field I already have populated if possible, rather than copying its content throughout the archive into the new thing.) Does anyone have any ideas? If I could "theme" the RSS directly, I would be home free--if there were some sort of rss-item.tpl.php template I could override. Can anyone help?
Solved through nodeapi in custom module
I ended up programming a module (custom_enclosure) to do this for me. In case anyone would be helped by it it follows. Basically, in building an RSS item, it just tests for a specific content type and the presence of a value in the CCK link field I created for the remote enclosure, and it injects the enclosure tag accordingly.
<?phpfunction custom_enclosure_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $teaser, $page) {
switch($op) {
case 'rss item':
if ($node->type == 'grace_to_you_episode' && !empty($node->field_enclosure_url[0]['url'])) {
return array(
array(
'key' => 'enclosure',
'attributes' => array(
'url' => $node->field_enclosure_url[0]['url'],
'type' => 'audio/mpeg'
)
)
);
}
return array();
}
}
?>
Content Template Solution?
Found this page through Geeks&God site. I'm trying to set up a D6 Podcast myself.
Could you not do a similar thing using the Content Template module, you can create an RSS template in there and add XML elements. I got this working to create a GeoRSS feed for Google Maps, so I'm hoping it a similar principle would work for a Podcast?