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Newswire module?

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:27 pm
by Pance
Does anyone know if there's a "newswire" module. By newswire I mean a module that collects a bunch of RSS feeds automatically, (I suppose with the use of a cron job?) and then displays the title and link in a nice format. Something like this page - in the middle called "Newswire: Top Headlines Elsewhere":

http://www.rabble.ca

I think this site runs on Drupal, but was hoping someone else has designed it for CMSMS too?

Thanks.

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:00 pm
by Jos
Maybe the module XML Made Simple?
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/xmlmadesimple

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:07 am
by applejack
yes there is a module or plugin. look and ye shall find.

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:53 pm
by applejack
It is RSS2HTML module

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:13 pm
by Pance
thanks for the suggestion - but this is what it says

"Maximum CMSMS Version Supported = 1.6.6"

Whereas I'm using the latest version 1.9.4.3

Pance

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:40 pm
by applejack
You may be able to just edit the file for the version number. It is a long time since I used it.

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:15 pm
by Pance
I'm now trying out XMLMadeSimple.

Apparently not that simple - at least for me.

I installed the module - no prob. And I added two feeds. But now I don't see any content from the feeds. I assume the problem is that it hasn't read the RSS feeds yet - and that's why there's no content. I used this

{$xml|var_dump} -> just "NULL"

{cms_module module="XMLMadeSimple" feed_id="2"} -> blank!

Any suggestions...??? How do I force it to reed the two RSS feeds? When I browse the MySQL table cms_content - there's nothing new there!

Pance

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:26 pm
by Jos
If you paste it this way in your template or page content, you should get some result:

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{cms_module module="XMLMadeSimple" feed_id="1"}
{$xml|var_dump}

Re: Newswire module?

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:50 pm
by paulbaker
[RSS2HTML...]
Pance wrote:"Maximum CMSMS Version Supported = 1.6.6"
It does indeed state that...not sure why. It works fine though. I have it running in a live site using 1.9.4.1.

I don't think it will cope with > 1 feed though, which it sounds like you are trying to do.