Planet

Planet is an aggregator which collects blogs posts of users in a given role (e.g. staff) and to display them in a "planet" fashion. Content is defined by the user (the blog author) instead of the site adminitrators.

Settings

To setup planet, go to admin/settings/planet and note the following sections:

• General Settings (form).
  • The role to select authors from lets you narrow the user list for when you're adding a feed and associating it with a user. A common setting will be to create a staff role and use this for planet. Giving that role the 'administer own planet feeds' permission will give your user the ability to add, remove or modify their own feeds.
  • The filter format drop down will allow you to select how the planet entry nodes contents will be processed.
• Feeds (form). This section lets you add a new feed. Give it a title, select an author, provide the feed url, and you're off.
• Feeds (list). This section lists current feeds, when they were last updated, how many items they have, and it allows you to edit, refresh, or freeze them. Freezing is a quick way to temporarily suspend updates from the given feed.

Development series

Many changes have been made to the development version, and beta-testers are welcome. All module history has been ported to bzr versioning system, and code is maintained in launchpad which is nice for bug tracking and contributions management. You can get the lastest source from planet with the command:

Please report all bugs related to -dev version in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/planet-drupal.

Official releases issues may be reported here.

Roadmap

PgSql support.

Fixes have been made in the development branch to ensure database engine independance. They will be released soon.

5.x branch

Please note that the 5.x branch is outdated and there is currently no plan to fix any bugs unless someone else want to work on it.

6.x-2.x series

A deep rethinking of the module in in progress since a couple of weeks.
It's the time to post and discuss feature requests :)

You can post them here as issues (category feature request), or,
even better on these dedicated forums (in construction).

7.x port

I'm taking great care of setting up project workflow system, with acute version control and live documentation. This should make code refactoring easy and fun. But let 6.x series mature a bit first, since it will concern most users for many months yet.

Your new Planet driver,
RockyRoad.

Releases

Official releases	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-1.3	2009-Mar-12	19.1 KB	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x

Development snapshots	Date	Size	Links	Status
6.x-1.x-dev	2009-Jun-09	19.94 KB	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot