Plugin RSS
Use this wiki plugin to display items received from an external RSS feed that has been set up in the external feed feature (at tiki-admin_rssmodules.php ). See External Feeds on how to set up Tiki to receive external feeds, which will need to be done first before using this plugin. For outgoing RSS feeds, see Feeds.
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Parameters
Introduced in Tiki 1. Required parameters are inbold.Preferences required: wikiplugin_rss
| Parameters | Accepted Values | Description | Default | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|
id |
int separator: : |
List of feed IDs separated by colons. ex: feedId:feedId2 |
1 | |
desclen |
digits | Max characters/length, truncates text to fit design | 0 | 10.1 |
icon |
url | URL to a favicon to put before each entry | 5.0 | |
max |
int | Number of results displayed. | 10 | 1 |
author |
(blank) 1 0 |
Show authors (not shown by default) | 0 | 1 |
date |
(blank) 1 0 |
Show date of each item (not shown by default) | 0 | 1 |
desc |
(blank) 1 0 |
Show feed descriptions (not shown by default) | 0 | 1 |
showtitle |
(blank) 1 0 |
Show the title of the feed (shown by default) | 1 | 6.0 |
ticker |
(blank) 1 0 |
Turn static feed display into ticker news like | 1 | 10.1 |
Usage notes
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feedIdis the id of the feed set up at Settings > External Feeds (ortiki-admin_rssmodules.php),maxis the number of shown entries,dateandauthor(optional) are added if set to1, and hidden if set to0,descis a short description of the current rss item (optional).
You can also combine feeds by indicating 1:2 , or 1:2:3 to add feeds together. Note, however, that if you are combining feeds, "show publish date" must be checked in the Feeds module settings, in order to allow this plugin to sort the combined feeds.
Examples
Let's say you wish to display the list of last 3 items of a feed with the Id of 1 inside a Wiki page. Simply include this in your page, with date, but no author:
{rss id="1" max="3" date="1" author="0" desc="1"}
On this site, this would produce:
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Tiki 19.0 Released
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The Tiki Community is pleased to announce the latest stable release - Tiki 19.0. This update includes many new features, code optimizations and bug fixes. Get Tiki 19.0 at the download page.
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Tiki 19.0 Released
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The Tiki Community is pleased to announce the latest stable release - Tiki 19.0. This update includes many new features, code optimizations and bug fixes. Get Tiki 19.0 at the download page. Download Now!
Now you want the same using a "Ticker like" effect:
{rss id="1"max="3" date="1" author="0" desc="1" ticker="1" desclen="50"}
On this site, this would produce:
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Tiki 19.0 Released
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The Tiki Community is pleased to announce the latest stable release - Tiki 19.0. This update includes many new features, code optimizations and bug fixes. Get Tiki 19.0 at the download page.
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Tiki 19.0 Released
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The Tiki Community is pleased to announce the latest stable release - Tiki 19.0. This update includes many new features, code optimizations and bug fixes. Get Tiki 19.0 at the download page.
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Tiki 19.0 Released
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The Tiki Community is pleased to announce the latest stable release - Tiki 19.0. This update includes many new features, code optimizations and bug fixes. Get Tiki 19.0 at the download page. Download Now!
Smarty Feeds Function
You can also include a feed in a wiki page by using the Feeds Smarty function ( lib\smarty_tiki\function.rss.php ). Its usage is:
{rss id="5" max="10"}
Parameters for Smarty Function
| id | ID | mandatory | ID of the rss |
| max | number | optional | max number of objects to show |
| skip | numbers separated by comma | optional | the objects to skip. Ex: 1,3 will skip the first object and the third one |
;){kind=link}