How to style Feed aggregator Block?
Tytest - September 9, 2009 - 20:28
When you create aggregate a feed using the core Feed aggregator, it produces a block you can enable. This block is very basic and only shows the Title from a feed in a list.
I know you can style the Feed aggregator node by editing aggregator-item.tpl.php, but how do you style the block?
Three options
1. Check if the block has a specific class/id and write specific CSS rules.
2. Use Block Theme module to create specific block templates that can be applied afterwards in block settings.
3. Copy your theme's block.tpl.php as block-[module].tpl.php and customize it. In your case it should be block-aggregator.tpl.php
I like the idea of a
I like the idea of a template. I've tried using what was found in the aggregator module, but the fields don't render. Any ideas?
<div class="feed-item">
<h3 class="feed-item-title">
<a href="<?php print $feed_url; ?>"><?php print $feed_title; ?></a>
</h3>
<div class="feed-item-meta">
<?php if ($source_url) : ?>
<a href="<?php print $source_url; ?>" class="feed-item-source"><?php print $source_title; ?></a> -
<?php endif; ?>
<span class="feed-item-date"><?php print $source_date; ?></span>
</div>
<?php if ($content) : ?>
<div class="feed-item-body">
<?php print $content; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($categories) : ?>
<div class="feed-item-categories">
<?php print t('Categories'); ?>: <?php print implode(', ', $categories); ?>
</div>
<?php endif ;?>
</div>
From my trial and error....
I believe that the [somename].tpl.php files that you can copy from the aggregator module folder to your theme's folder are used to style the aggregator PAGE, not blocks. i.e.: http://www.example.com/aggregator/sources/1
I wanted to make three code changes to the rendering of the aggregator blocks. 1) remove the "more" link; 2) remove the "blog this" link; 3) add target="_blank" to each link.
For #1, add this to template.php:
http://drupal.org/node/228051#comment-1673392
For #2 & #3, add this to template.php:
/* modify link items in the aggregator to open in a new window and
suppress the "blog it" icon & links should the module ever be enabled.
(Code removed--not commented out--from this copy of the original function.) */
function phptemplate_aggregator_block_item($item, $feed = 0) {
global $user;
$output = '';
// Display the external link to the item.
$output .= '<a href="'. check_url($item->link) .'" target="_blank">'. check_plain($item->title) ."</a>\n";
return $output;
}
Everything else, was cosmetic, so that was handled with CSS.
Any other suggestions?
Any other suggestions?
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Hey tytest you can try views
try with views. i did that..
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block-aggregator.tpl.php
I found that you need to duplicate the block.tpl.php file and make it block-aggregator.tpl.php - then you can customize within that. There's a tutorial on Lynda.com .
But I can't figure out how to style the list - or add the date to each entry. I don't understand how it's calling the list style - I was expecting to see
in one of the files - but it's not there.
Does anyone know how this works?
Oh - this is what is meant
Oh - this is what is meant above - http://drupal.org/project/views it's a module.