View Issue Details

IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
1211Composr documentationGeneral / Uncategorisedpublic2015-09-22 22:59
ReporterChris Graham Assigned ToGuest  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeature 
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Summary1211: RSS
DescriptionHow to show some RSS, e.g. http://techcrunch.com/feed/

How to find what feeds are available from your own site (by going to /backend.php and finding the feeds that way). How to use an RSS reader (Feedly perhaps) to show things happening on your own site (by inputting the URL to your own feed).
TagsNo tags attached.
Attach Tags
Attached Files
Time estimation (hours)
Sponsorship open

Sponsor

Date Added Member Amount Sponsored

Activities

Chris Graham

2015-04-23 08:25

administrator   ~2725

To show RSS use main_rss block

Guest

2015-04-29 10:30

reporter   ~2741

Using RSS feeds in Composr

RSS feeds are very helpful and it makes sure that the information becomes available to a much wider audience. It's a very widely used tool throughout the web and here's how to set it up in Composr with many more interesting options to choose from,

1) First step is to add the built-in 'main_rss' block for feeds, it's very easy to add a block in to your page, you can find detailed information on how to add blocks here(http://compo.sr/docs9/tut_adv_comcode_pages.htm)
2) Composr supports a wide range of feeds to choose from, here is the list :

News
Catalogue entries
CEDI posts
Forums
File/Media library
Images of the day
Members
Comments
Galleries
Topics
Birthdays
Admin Recent Actions
Calendar
Authors
Polls
Points
Conversr Personal Topics
Support tickets
Messages
Conversr Unread Topics
Downloads
Comcode pages
Activity
Commandr

     3) Another interesting feature is that you can filter the feeds, say if you only want to display the first category from a Feed, simply add a filter parameter to the end of URL like this,

http://compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2&mode=news&days=30&max=100&filter=1
      
    This will only show the first category from News feeds

    4) You can read all the content from the Composr from your own personal feed reader as well, for example, you can use Feedly to read the feed contents by simply pasting the URL(eg: compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2) in Feedly's search field or by using the 'Add content' button to the left, this should fetch and sync all the feed content from Composr to Feedly

Guest

2015-08-18 06:56

reporter   ~3070

Using RSS feeds in Composr
------------------------------------------

RSS feeds are very helpful and it makes sure that the information becomes available to a much wider audience. It's a very widely used tool throughout the web and here's how to set it up in Composr with many more interesting options to choose from,

1) First step is to add the built-in 'main_rss' block for feeds, it's very easy to add a block in to your page, you can find detailed information on how to add blocks here(http://compo.sr/docs9/tut_adv_comcode_pages.htm)

For example: If you want to display the RSS feed from "http://techcrunch.com/feed/" to your Composr page then you can add the 'main_rss' block to your comcode page(Screenshot_001.png) and set up the 'Param' field with the feed url as shown in the figure(Screenshot_002.png). The updated comcode page with the 'main_rss' block as mentioned above will display the feeds from the feed url to your site.(Screenshot_003.png)

2) Composr supports a wide range of feeds to choose from, here is the list :

    News
    Catalogue entries
    CEDI posts
    Forums
    File/Media library
    Images of the day
    Members
    Comments
    Galleries
    Topics
    Birthdays
    Admin Recent Actions
    Calendar
    Authors
    Polls
    Points
    Conversr Personal Topics
    Support tickets
    Messages
    Conversr Unread Topics
    Downloads
    Comcode pages
    Activity
    Commandr

    You can find the available feeds from your own site by going to the location "your_site_url/backend.php".(Screenshot_004.png)

3) Another interesting feature is that you can filter the feeds, say if you only want to display the first category from a Feed, simply add a filter parameter to the end of URL like this,

        http://compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2&mode=news&days=30&max=100&filter=1
      
            This will only show the first category from News feeds

4) You can read all the content from the Composr from your own personal feed reader as well, for example, you can use Feedly to read the feed contents by simply pasting the URL(eg: compo.sr/backend.php?type=RSS2) in Feedly's search field or by using the 'Add content' button to the left, this should fetch and sync all the feed content from Composr to Feedly.
Screenshot_001.png (137,059 bytes)   
Screenshot_001.png (137,059 bytes)   
Screenshot_002.png (113,447 bytes)   
Screenshot_002.png (113,447 bytes)   
Screenshot_003.png (828,682 bytes)
Screenshot_004.png (75,340 bytes)   
Screenshot_004.png (75,340 bytes)   

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2023-02-26 18:29 Chris Graham Category General => General / Uncategorised