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New tool - RSS feed generator for user's recent gallery

Request changes or modifications.
blane9393
 
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Still would like PBase RSS support

Post Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:55 pm


Great work around Srijith! I love it. But, I hope the excitement about a work-around doesn't detract from the request for true RSS support on PBase. I've been using RSS with some friends' galleries on Flickr and it works great. Click the RSS Feed link at the bottom of the recent photos gallery and 'Presto!' - all done. And, the actual photos show up in the feed, not just the list of galleries.

Has there been any indication that this feature is being considered by PBase?

alinla
 
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Post Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:16 pm


srijith,

This is a great feature. Thanks for making this possible and spending time explaining it here on the forums.

I was wondering if there is a way one can limit the RSS updates to a single gallery instead of a whole pbase site? I enter a single photo into multiple galleries and the RSS is picking up that multiple galleries were updated when in fact only a single photo is new. I have a gallery called Recent Photos to simply things for my visitors. It would be great to RSS only that gallery.

Thanks again.

srijith
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Post Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:41 pm


alinla wrote:srijith,

This is a great feature. Thanks for making this possible and spending time explaining it here on the forums.

I was wondering if there is a way one can limit the RSS updates to a single gallery instead of a whole pbase site? I enter a single photo into multiple galleries and the RSS is picking up that multiple galleries were updated when in fact only a single photo is new. I have a gallery called Recent Photos to simply things for my visitors. It would be great to RSS only that gallery.

Thanks again.



You are welcome. As for your feature request, this is going to be a problem as I have implemented it. For now, what the script does is to visit your "recent" page (http://www.pbase.com/alinla/root&view=recent) and parse the HTML to find the new gallery details and then return an RSS file.

However, if you are deligently ensuring that all your new photos are also copied to a special gallery (http://www.pbase.com/alinla/recent_photos in your case I guess), I could also use that page. Actually it might be easier since PBase has some backend support to list content of a gallery as an XML document which I can use directly.

You would be one of the very few who would use such a 'feature' but then it is a coding itch that I would love to scratch. Give me a bit of time to get it working though :)

alinla
 
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Post Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:30 pm


srijith,

Wow, great. I didn't think it would be possible but I thought I'd ask just in case. This will make life much easier for my visitors as I can pinpoint exactly what is new on my site.

I appreciate the effort. Thanks.

ginnyr
 
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Post Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:56 pm


Thanks for this srijith! Just saw this thread and thought I'd give it a try. Always wanted to know what RSS is all about. Do you know if very many people here at pbase are using this? I'd love to find more.

srijith
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Post Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:43 pm


ginnyr wrote:Do you know if very many people here at pbase are using this? I'd love to find more.


From my domain stats:

http://www.pbase.com/brasher
http://www.pbase.com/andrej70
http://www.pbase.com/harpeggio
http://www.pbase.com/yardbird

and others..


srijith
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Post Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:55 am


alinla wrote:srijith,

Wow, great. I didn't think it would be possible but I thought I'd ask just in case. This will make life much easier for my visitors as I can pinpoint exactly what is new on my site.

I appreciate the effort. Thanks.

Check your PM :)

xcreach
 
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:34 am


Srijith,

Thanks for all that. I have tried and it works well. However, what I still don't understand is how to inform my gallery visitors that they can subscribe to the feed. Is there a way to put a RSS icon that would directly put the feed address (http://www.srijith.com/pbase/xcreach.rss) to their rss reader?

Thanks in advance.
Xavier

http://www.pbase.com/xcreach/

srijith
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:42 am


xcreach wrote:Is there a way to put a RSS icon that would directly put the feed address (http://www.srijith.com/pbase/xcreach.rss) to their rss reader?


I am not sure exactly what you mean by "put the feed" but these are some ways of doing it.

- As a link: eg. http://www.pbase.com/srijith
- As an image: eg. http://www.pbase.com/arjunrc
- Using quicksub: http://www.methodize.org/quicksub/

xcreach
 
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:30 am


Sorry Srijith, I was very unclear because I am really not familiar with all this.

My question is how to have the RSS Icon on my root page. For example, as you did yrself on your profile page (on yr root page i don't see the icon).

Many thanks
xav

srijith
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:55 am


You can get the icon of various shades at http://www.feedicons.com/

You basically upload the one you want into a (hidden) galllery on PBase and use the direct link to it inside your HTML.

In my root page just link to the text "RSS feed". Hmm.. maybe I should change that :)

xcreach
 
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:00 pm


many thanks, will try tonight. Up to here it seems easy but there is sthg I don't understand with RSS. How do I link the icon with MY feed address: http://www.srijith.com/pbase/xcreach.rss.

On yr website, when I click on the rss icon, it offers me the possibility to save yr feed address. Which codes should I introduce in the HTML so that it happens (gallery header or style sheet. Probably depending on where I want to put the icon)?

For the timebeing the icon is just an image.

Sorry maybe to ask the obvious. Hope my question makes sense.
thanks[/b]

srijith
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:45 pm


Putting something like this in your root gallery's 'description' section will do:

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Subscribe to my recent gallery list via <a href="http://www.srijith.com/pbase/xcreach.rss"><img src="http://www.pbase.com/xcreach/image/XXXXX/original.jpg"  /> RSS feed</a>


Make sure to replace 'XXXXX' with the number assigned for your RSS icon when you upload it onto PBase. Also make sure that "html flag" checkbox is selected.

To have something like this in your profile, add a similar code in your profile "Message" section.

xcreach
 
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Post Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:03 pm


Wow, thanks a lot. It works:
http://www.pbase.com/xcreach/

I just have now to find people to subscribe. Not sure it's the easiest part.

You have been of great help.

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