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Slick RSS			module
Rating 94 votes	Developer:	David Thomas	Version:	1.4 (Updated 137 days ago)
	E-mail:	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	Compatibility:
	Views:	107,149	License:	GPLv2.0
	Favoured:	59	Type:	Non-Commercial
			Date Added:	Jan 16, 2007

Parse and Display RSS Feed News with DHTML Teaser Tooltip

* Up to 5 RSS feeds per instance
* Display set number of items
* Item Title
* Item Description
* Tooltip Title
* Tooltip Description
* Limit Word Counts for Title and Description
* Enable / Disable Images
* Easily Customise Tooltip Colour
* Set Link Target (new window, same window)
* Supports UTF-8 and International Character Sets
* Supports embedded media files in newsfeed (podcasts etc...)
* Caching and module class suffix is supported.

NOTE: Joomla 1.5 version released!

CHANGELOG:

Version 1.3, For UTF-8 support, Slick RSS now uses the slick and fast RSS Parser from simplepie.org
Version 1.4: Even better configuration options and support for international characters.
Version 1.5: Version for Joomla 1.5

Specifically, related to character display, Slick RSS 1.4 will now :
1) Optionally override your default Joomla encoding with the RSS feed encoding. (default=disabled (1.3)
2) Enable or disable the translation of characters from the RSS feed into your default Joomla encoding charset. (default=enabled (1.4))

If this module helps you out, please give feedback. Thanks!

Update: I have setup a new support forum at : http://joomla.daveslist.co.nz/forum
Please direct support questions there.
DT

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User Reviews (62)

small but excellent work! by alleph, February 4, 2007

Thanks to David THOMAS for small(thats fine;) ) and usefull extension. By the way, I'd prefer character count restriction instead of word limit check for the item title text. Thanks again. :)

Does exactly what it says, and slick too ! by steve7, February 2, 2007

Excellent extension, easy installation and highly configurable via the admin interface. Amazing support from the developer. He got this working on a non UTF8 charset site using the 1.3 version which wans't even supposed to do this ! I've installed the 1.4 and this works wonderfully. Thanks David.

Great Module and Extremely Helpful Developer by rckoop, February 1, 2007

2 of 2 people find this review helpful:

Module is Great. Easy to install and implement. David is extremely helpful and attentive if there are any problems. Tooltip feature is a must have.

use it by halmueller, January 30, 2007

Clean install, simple to use, works well. Has just enough flexibility (show/hide titles, teaser text, images, popup).

This module is particularly well suited to more modern templates that have a large number of positions defined--you could quickly populate a site with nice-looking, subject-specific RSS feeds.

Handles several feeds from problem sites that did not display correctly in other Joomla RSS extensions.

Doesn't support international characters by eburcat, January 27, 2007

I can't use this component since it doesn't show correctly feeds that contain international character sets. Spcifically Hebrew is not presented correctly.

Owner's reply:
Slick RSS uses Joomla's built in RSS parser, based on DOMit. The current version for 1.0.x has limited utf-8 support. I believe international character set support is important. Thanks for pointing it out. I will work on this functionality for the next version by integrating a new RSS parser with utf-8 support.

Great newsfeed module by keveen, January 25, 2007

A very nice, easy to use newsfeed module that I am using. I styled the module background but the popup colours are the original defaults.

This module seems to work straight away for most people but I had problems when I used an Absolute DIV sitting outside the main template container (for Calendar and Site News). The tooltips were pushed off to the right of the screen out of sight. An email to the author found the solution straight away - brilliant!

At the bottom of the configration page for the module there is a "Extra Tooltip Parameters field". Using version 1.1 David suggested ,OFFSETX, -800, OFFSETY, 0 which worked. If you use version 1.2 you don't need the first comma. Don't ask me why!

For those who know what they are talking about, information on this Overlib thingy is here: http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/.

Excellent! by Xena, January 25, 2007

It worked like a charm. The only thing - how do I make it work in parent window? Is it possilbe at all?
Thanks again

Owner's reply:
Please email me if you have support requests.

Slick indeed! by Martend, January 24, 2007

A great module, thank you for creating this fast, slick and nice one.

Great solution for phpGedView, too by almost, January 24, 2007

From the outset, Slick RSS was the only extention that, right out of the box, gave me the info I wanted for a non-news RSS feed. Witn 1.1, even the popup description worked great. But what I'm most impressed with is that I still wanted more - the option to show that description without the pop-up - and within 24 hours of describing the need, 1.2 appeared. Now Slick is just what the doctor ordered. Thanks for a great addition, and for outstanding support and almost immediate turnaround. (Those of you wanting to show RSS blocks from phpGedView should take a look.)

Just Works by joarvat, January 23, 2007

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Very easy to configure even for a novice. No problems to report so far. The tooltips are an especially nice feature.

It's "slick" by mclane, January 21, 2007

I installed this on my site and it works great. It was simple to set up and get running. I love the moveover feature. I like that it didn't require it's on CSS or anything difficult like that, but does give options for customization.

Simple, easy to use, why not try it?

Not bad by ron.severdia, January 21, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

This is better than the other options available for RSS feeds, but that's not saying much. Though the rollover feature is "slick," the built-in component in Joomla allows for images and excerpts on each article...this module doesn't. If the same functionality is added to this module, it will be a winner. Seems to be a pretty sturdy module after a fair amount of testing.

Owner's reply:
Those features (incl. excerpts on each article) will be available in the next version (1.2)

Easy to install, very flexible by nkitson, January 20, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

This module is how they all should be - easy to install, features that are clear, useful and easy to configure.

This was literally 10 mins from finding to installed and working.

Where's the selection for 6 stars?

Simple by svedra, January 17, 2007

4 of 4 people find this review helpful:

Very simple and powerful modul. From installation to publishing feeds you need only few clicks. I like such kind of work.

Almost perfect! by ffff0000, January 17, 2007

1 of 1 people find this review helpful:

I have problems with other AJAX RSS modules.
This is simple text... so it works perfectly for me!.
Very good work! ;)
I say almost perfect because it only allows one RSS URL.

Owner's reply:
You can create multiple copies of the module to support multiple RSS feeds.

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