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

[srijith]

Oh well, can't help there. Beyond my reach Anyway the new format 'username.rss' looks more tidy hence I am sticking to it. Maybe at some point PBase guys may decide to help in this and add the ref inside the headers.

[robert]

Hello Srijith:

Again, thanks for sharing this. I have implemented it on two PBase sites already. A couple of things......

1) It would be nice if the feed contained a few sentences of the gallery description. Perhaps, this not possible because the description tag is being used for the 'Last Update' info.

2) When the code is displayed in Firefox, you a get the warning: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it...." This appears to be a common error with RSS feeds... but not sure what it means? If I run my feed through a validator (http://feedvalidator.org/), it validates perfectly.

Robert

[srijith]

1) It would be nice if the feed contained a few sentences of the gallery description. Perhaps, this not possible because the description tag is being used for the 'Last Update' info.

I could reuse the description tag for what you want, the problem being that I need to fetch each gallery's individual main page and parse that page to get the description. That would mean additional burden on the servers, but then since the script is run maybe once a day for each user, it should be ok. Will get back on this to see how far I can work on this.

2) When the code is displayed in Firefox, you a get the warning: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it...." This appears to be a common error with RSS feeds... but not sure what it means? If I run my feed through a validator (http://feedvalidator.org/), it validates perfectly.

That is not a problem as such because theoretically an RSS feed is indeed an XML feed and since it is meant for syndication and not for display in the raw format, no style is associated with the xml file and hence the "warning" from FF. That is the way RSS/XML and browsers work.

[srijith]

I could reuse the description tag for what you want, the problem being that I need to fetch each gallery's individual main page and parse that page to get the description. That would mean additional burden on the servers, but then since the script is run maybe once a day for each user, it should be ok. Will get back on this to see how far I can work on this.

I have managed to code it in, but this is going to mess badly with people who have put more than just text descriptions inside their descriptions sections. Arjun, for example, has put in an image of PBase logo. So for now I am not adding this functionality in.

[robert]

OK Srijith... thanks for trying. Just an idea as the feed looks a bit sparse.

Robert

[mike5]

2) When the code is displayed in Firefox, you a get the warning: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it...." This appears to be a common error with RSS feeds... but not sure what it means? If I run my feed through a validator (http://feedvalidator.org/), it validates perfectly.

That is not a problem as such because theoretically an RSS feed is indeed an XML feed and since it is meant for syndication and not for display in the raw format, no style is associated with the xml file and hence the "warning" from FF. That is the way RSS/XML and browsers work.

Have you tried modifying your script so it returns

Code: Select all

Content-Type: application/rss+xml


in the http header? I think that would help browser identify the contents as an RSS feed.

Cheers, Mike5

[srijith]

Have you tried modifying your script so it returns

Code: Select all

Content-Type: application/rss+xml


in the http header? I think that would help browser identify the contents as an RSS feed.

You are right, I should have done that. Done now.

[michaelsv]

Srijith, Thanks a lot for this great feature. I've added provided HTML code to my galleries and it works great. Very cool.

Michael.

PS. The only thing that can make us even happier is a slideshow

[luc_vn]

Srijith, fantastic feature and nice workaround... Thanks!

Could this be reproduced regarding the comment management part?

I mean, would it be possible to be "fed" when I get a new comment?


Kind Regards,

Luc VN

[hmetal]

Nice job!

How about a nice little JavaScript version that can be embedded into blogs such as those at blogspot.com? Just something simplethat outputs the gallery and # of photos, one gallery per line.

Would be sweet for sure.

[srijith]

Nice job!

How about a nice little JavaScript version that can be embedded into blogs such as those at blogspot.com? Just something simplethat outputs the gallery and # of photos, one gallery per line.

Would be sweet for sure.

You could use http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/ and get it working like what Rober has done at http://www.pbase.com/robert

[srijith]

Could this be reproduced regarding the comment management part?
I mean, would it be possible to be "fed" when I get a new comment?

That could be difficult because you need to be logged in to see the comment count that is visible in the profile. I don't want to mess with things like password and RSS at the same time. Not good for anyone's health

[charleswilliam3]

Can someone please pm me and explain what an rss feed is? I would really appreciate it.

[jin_chiuan]

Great job!!

Thanks srijith

[srijith]

Can someone please pm me and explain what an rss feed is? I would really appreciate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29