Hi guys,
After having a little bit of a play around on matrix, quickly skimming the documents, and browsing the site, I wasn't able to find anything about displaying an RSS feed. Is there support for this? Will there be?
Thanks!
Matrix does not currently support either displaying an RSS feed from another site or exporting its content as an RSS feed. I do know that exporting Matrix content as an RSS feed is on the development wishlist though.
No worries. If matrix gets adopted, I will definitely write an RSS module to read feeds and will contribute it back to you guys.
Just while we are on this…
An RSS feed module could almost extend the Asset Listing asset and just format the output in RSS format. Then a blank design (or no design actually) could be applied to it to produce the feed without presentation tags.
The Asset Listing is going to be getting some very nice functionality when the new calendar module gets built and this additional functionality would almost certainly benefit an RSS feed.
Cool… I think :huh:
We'll definitely be displaying various RSS feeds from EdNA as some of our content is hosted there. Also, some other external sites offer nice feeds too.
has this progress any further since the last posting? I need to access some rss feeds from other sites and display them on my site. It would also be nice (but not mandatory) to off sections of my site as a feed.
So did RSS in matrix go anywhere since July 23rd 2004 in the original post? I guess I could use a remote content page and use some php to do it yes? or possible just use nested content type div? any thoughts are appreciated/
thanks
Dale
No, RSS feed developer has stalled. It is still on the wish list, but a lot of other development has gotten in the way.
That's a shame, as they've certainly become a lot more popular of late. Guess I'll have to go the external PHP page route then huh?
Cheers
Dale
Cannot help with importing RSS feeds, but can tell you that it is possible to create a somewhat resonable rss export using existing matrix functionality.
You could accomplish rss export by creating a metadata schema with fields required for RSS. Apply that schema to the assets you want to export. Then create an asset listing, do not apply a design to it and set the bodycopy format to the desired RSS format, i.e. ATOM or RSS 1.0, etc. Also, your listing will have to utilise the metadata fields defined in the schema. This requires for you to know the format of the RSS feed, so it's not as easy as just clicking a button, but you can do it NOW, without having to wait for new matrix functionality.
Hope this helps.
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There is an issue with exporting an RSS feed with Matrix – designs are HTML based, and we automatically insert our copyright header on every design parse. It is currently not possible to create the truly blank design required to create a valid RSS structure.
Trully blank design is not required, as long as it provides proper XML. HTML comments are valid XML comments so the conflict is not that great. A quick correction to my previous post: you do need to apply a design, only it has to be blank (i.e. not produce the standard HTML page structure). If you do not apply a design, a default one might be applied, which will probably not work for RSS.
Unfortunately, I do not have an example system to show this feature. When I was experimenting with it I was able to use a matrix image asset as an image for RSS feed and got it to work on most RSS readers.
You still need to make sure your design has the BODY design are in it though - or not content will be printed.
Interesting stuff, although on the wrong end of the stick for what I need, as I want to use other people’s RSS feeds, rather than create my own.
I’m sure others will find it useful though, so thanks for the response.
On that note, I’ve succesfully used the following RSS php script to embed RSS content into a matrix remote content page. Works a treat.
Magpie RSS link
The Magpie_simple.php script included is pretty easy to tweak into something Matrix friendly.
Cheers
Dale
You will be able to create outbound RSS feeds using the Asset Listing in Matrix v3.6. The code to support this was committed today.