The current FeedAPI is great. But the creation of a feed requires the creation of a node.
What if wanted to add a feed to a user object?
Example: a user to a drupal application also has a personal blog somewhere else. He/she may want to be able to add the feed url to the personal blog so that some of his/her contributions to the personal blog can automatically be aggregated to the drupal application.
The contribution on the personal blog could be imported to the drupal application as a node with the given user as the author.

I was about to write a module called "userfeed" that would do just this, using functions from Feedapi and from Feedapi_node.

I realized I had to rewrite functions already written in the feed api, just to adapt them to the user case.

Before spending more time on it, I would like to know if it would be possible to rewrite some functions in the FeedAPI to consider 2 cases: node and users.
I am ready to help if needed. The delicate part will be not to damage the current structure.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

S.Gauvain

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aron novak’s picture

aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
commented

Maybe i can't see your use-case clear, but using views you can glue users module and feedapi, don't you?

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gauvain commented

Hey,

I did some unsuccessful attempts with Views but it causes some big performance issue.

The use case is the following:
A registered user has a blog somewhere else.
He wants the content of his blog to be automatically aggregated in the drupal site he is registered.
Instead of creating a feed as node, he just wants to be able to edit his profile and add his feed in it.

Concerning my request I was thinking of a change in the FeedAPI module according to the following module:

1/ Hook_Form_Alter
a) Content Type Settings form
Enter the same form in the user_admin_settings Form, using "userfeed" as $type

b) Node form
Enable the same form on the user_edit Form using "userfeed" as $type

This would require the other functions to take a uid parameters into account as an optional parameters.
The functions would distinguish between 2 cases node vs users.
This would require to add an extra column "uid" on the Feed API tables.

If you wish, I can send you some more detailed codes withing the coming weeks (i'm very busy right now) and you could tell me what you think.

aron novak’s picture

aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

not planned