By pmark23 on

I have a news aggregator site that uses FEEDAPI to concatenate several news feeds into one feed that is shown on the front page. There are also some forums to discuss news items. The feed nodes are converted to stories.

I would like an image (like a thumbnail) to appear at the beginning of each node displayed on the front page so it is readily identified as a news story or forum post. Similar to Slashdot's topic images.

FEED AGGREGATOR was able to pull in the thumbs from the existing feeds and put them on the front page using IMAGE ATTACH. Ideally I wanted to use the existing thumb if it existed, and if not then add a general thumb to identify the type of node. However when I moved everything over to FEEDAPI I wasn't able to get any images showing. I need to use FEEDAPI, but it doesn't seem to work with images at all.

I had this working in 4.5, but none of the methods I used (lots of handcoding) are appropriate in 6.x.

Anyone have any ideas on how this can be done?

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pmark23 commented

Anyone have something like this working? I've tried a few other things and although it looks like it should work, it isn't. I'm beginning to think there's a bug somewhere.

mcjim’s picture

mcjim commented

Would http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_image help?

sakib000’s picture

sakib000 commented

Do you need something like worthapost.com?

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pmark23 commented

No, not exactly (but nice site though). Slashdot is the nearest thing (that everyone knows) except that I would like to use the existing RSS thumb if available.

I did get it working with image-attach, but with only one thumb/icon. However it's not very stable and the slightest bit of monkeying with the feed settings can break it (I think I can figure this out on my own.)

Also, the image-attach only works on FEEDAPI feeds -- blogs, forums, etc. don't have images. I think this is a themeing issue (using a modified Four-Seasons theme), but following the guidelines and sample code in the Book isn't working.