AJAX RSS Reader
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3 (last update on Dec 21, 2008)
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GPLv2 or later
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Date Added
7 March 2006
This module is an AJAX RSS Reader using Simplepie feed parser. It parses multiple RSS Feeds and displays them on the screen in 8 draggable or static boxes. You can define 1 or more columns, the height of the box, different colors settings, show how many items to display and the refresh time for the DIV.
Demo for 1.5.x is at
http://arw.stroz.us/ at the bottom.
I love it. I modded a few things and created a new joomla to go with it.
But I got a question: can someone with php experience mod this to accept like 20 feeds?
I tried but failed at the code.
Thanks in advance,
But I got a question: can someone with php experience mod this to accept like 20 feeds?
I tried but failed at the code.
Thanks in advance,
Owner's reply
I think I had one a few years ago that I modded for someone that put like 16. I don't do anything with it anymore but it's pretty easy to mod. I always meant to finish it but that pesky life thing got in the way. It's 3 files to change if I remember correctly.
Its an awesome tool. ive used it on 7 sites.
But then...i come to find that it replaces meta keywords for some reason.
No matter what, if this is running on your index
your meta tags will have nothing but this
"mod_dbrss, mod_dbrss2, ajax rss reader, dbrss2, poweredbysimplepie, joomla, php augusta"
No matter what you enter anywhere.
After taking it down, my tags showed back to normal on searches.
Since then, i have taken it down.
Make sure to get good feeds, or your whole site will hang or not load.
But then...i come to find that it replaces meta keywords for some reason.
No matter what, if this is running on your index
your meta tags will have nothing but this
"mod_dbrss, mod_dbrss2, ajax rss reader, dbrss2, poweredbysimplepie, joomla, php augusta"
No matter what you enter anywhere.
After taking it down, my tags showed back to normal on searches.
Since then, i have taken it down.
Make sure to get good feeds, or your whole site will hang or not load.
Owner's reply
I put in meta tags in there to add to the site but I guess I put them in wrong. You can edit the code and take out the meta tags. It was only in mod_dbrss2.php file I believe.
you have really made a good solution.
well i have one question / support query.
tool tips are not working or may be i am doing something wrong.
rest all other things are working perfectly.
looking for your help in this.
well i have one question / support query.
tool tips are not working or may be i am doing something wrong.
rest all other things are working perfectly.
looking for your help in this.
Owner's reply
go to http://php.stroz.com and post the question in the forum with a URL to your site and we'll help you fix it.
Nice to see there is a new Version of Ajax Rss Reader.
The ability for Users to integrate their personal rss feeds is very neat!
But the feeds are not saved to the User Accounts. If I am logged in and ad a feed, then logout and logging in again, I only see the default RSS Feeds. Not the ones I added.
It would be genius if the feeds and position of feeds would be saved in the Database relatet to the User! So every user has his own, personal newsreader.
Did I miss something? Hope there will be an update with this feature.
Best Regards
The ability for Users to integrate their personal rss feeds is very neat!
But the feeds are not saved to the User Accounts. If I am logged in and ad a feed, then logout and logging in again, I only see the default RSS Feeds. Not the ones I added.
It would be genius if the feeds and position of feeds would be saved in the Database relatet to the User! So every user has his own, personal newsreader.
Did I miss something? Hope there will be an update with this feature.
Best Regards
Owner's reply
Turn on cookies in the module setup. It will save the last state of all added feeds and positions. I will later make it a component for the user db ability but time is short these days.
I like this extension, is very usefull for mantaining a website up to date without much work.
The problem is that it doesn't show right spanish characters (UTF-8). I tried the lastrss.php fix, described in one comment before, but I didn't found this file.
¿Can you help me to get this module working in Spanish?
Good work anyway! I recommend it (at least for English Feeds)!
The problem is that it doesn't show right spanish characters (UTF-8). I tried the lastrss.php fix, described in one comment before, but I didn't found this file.
¿Can you help me to get this module working in Spanish?
Good work anyway! I recommend it (at least for English Feeds)!
Owner's reply
Could you go to http://www.stroz.us/php and post in the forums a spanish rss feed that doesnt work for testing. I posted 2.2.8 that works on all languages I have tested so far.
I'd love to use it but it still has some problem with special characters.
Css-xhtml validation would make the ext excellent.
Please keep on
Css-xhtml validation would make the ext excellent.
Please keep on
Owner's reply
Are you on 2.2.7?
I thought i had the special chars fixed in 2.2.7. Everytime I fix one language, another seems to break. I'll post a release soon that will hopefully fix the special characters.
This module is really really cool. It helps me a lot to show news with rss but one thing is that I can't see alt message box with I put over the news. In the demo, when I put my mouse over the news, I can see the news description. Why I can't see it in my program? anyway, that is ur excellent work!!!
The only difficulty I had getting this to install and run was finding enought me to put in the RSS feed URLs! it's WAY VERY COOL, and an incredible method of displaying fresh constantly-updating news within the Joomla paradigm!
Kudos to the developer Marc Stroz - this module totally rocks!
Kudos to the developer Marc Stroz - this module totally rocks!
I tried the current "stable" version of this module, but it didn't work properly, and I was not terribly interested in opening up my site with a allow_url_fopen.
I contacted Marc and he promptly got back to me and suggested I try the v.2 beta. After an initial instal issue, I got the module working properly. I'd recommend trying this out, and if you have issues, give Marc and email. I'm sure he'll reply back more quickly than you expect.
Anton Ross
Abbott-Ross Communications
I contacted Marc and he promptly got back to me and suggested I try the v.2 beta. After an initial instal issue, I got the module working properly. I'd recommend trying this out, and if you have issues, give Marc and email. I'm sure he'll reply back more quickly than you expect.
Anton Ross
Abbott-Ross Communications
The module is not everything that I want, however it is a great sample of how RSS and Ajax can go together. The module is also written with very clean code which allows for easy modifications of the core functions. I wrote a quick modification that changes it from using fopen to using curl to get the RSS feed from the server, since my server configuration does not allow for fopen. I also plan to extend the module to add the RSS descriptions. You can see the module at work here:
http://www.weatherangel.com
Thanks for writing this module!
http://www.weatherangel.com
Thanks for writing this module!
My friend Murat found a wonderful language fix.
I think It is working without iconv.
Put this code at the top of lastRSS.php
ISO-8859-9 is for Turkish. Chabge it with your language charset.
I hope it will work also for your language.
Also change find and change $default_cp
var $default_cp = 'ISO-8859-9'
Upload your new lastRSS.php
It is all.
Ufkad & Murat
I think It is working without iconv.
Put this code at the top of lastRSS.php
ISO-8859-9 is for Turkish. Chabge it with your language charset.
I hope it will work also for your language.
Also change find and change $default_cp
var $default_cp = 'ISO-8859-9'
Upload your new lastRSS.php
It is all.
Ufkad & Murat
If you are trying to read in non english languages and getting garbled text, check your PHP configuration and ensure
ICONV is enabled.
If it isnt Enable it.
Demo here of Hungarian and Hebrew.
http://www.stroz.us or http://www.stroz.com/joomla
To see results immediately you need to delete any files in your modules/cache directory that start with rsscache_ and then refresh your page. It should parse them properly after that. If not post in the Discussions area so we can work it out.
ICONV is enabled.
If it isnt Enable it.
Demo here of Hungarian and Hebrew.
http://www.stroz.us or http://www.stroz.com/joomla
To see results immediately you need to delete any files in your modules/cache directory that start with rsscache_ and then refresh your page. It should parse them properly after that. If not post in the Discussions area so we can work it out.
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