[PHPiCalendar-DEV] Re: Phpicalendar-devel digest, Vol 1 #204 - 1 msg

[Jim Hu <ji...@ta...>]

seminartitle and host are fields defined in the most recent version of 
the rss.php in the CVS, which I had customized after the last release 
version.  I added those fields because the ones in the release didn't 
have some information I wanted.  I probably should have removed them or 
named them something more general before posting it (Sorry, Chad!)...I 
uploaded my version to provide the date range capability, and to show 
how this could be used to have a single code block generate the feed, 
instead of different ones for day, week, and month.

To use magpie with the older rss.php, the fields are:
title
link
description

rss.php takes the fields defined in the master array and tags them to 
conform to the RSS format well enough for magpie or other parsers to 
parse...I like magpie because a) it is used by another package I use 
and b) it's pretty simple and forgiving.  As modified by me, the rss 
feed does not conform to an RDF calendar specification where the tag 
names are registered and so on.  When I tried to read about calendar 
rss specifications, it seemed like the standards were not well defined 
at the time (about 9 months ago?)...and/or it was too confused for an 
amateur like me to understand!

You can see these by looking at the rss feed you get as text (just 
paste the URL in your browser and view source).  It's XML, so there are 
tags surrounding the data for each item.  Each event looks something 
like:

<item>
<tag1>data</tag1>
<tag2>data</tag2>
etc.
</item>

And there are tags surrounding the whole feed.  Hope this helps...and 
anyone out there who understands RDF better should suggest how to make 
things compliant!

Jim Hu

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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:29:13 +0000
> From: Ben Francis <li...@hi...>
> To:  php...@li...
> Subject: Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] Using the ranges with the rss.php in 
> the CVS
> Reply-To: php...@li...
>
> Jim Hu wrote:
>
>> p.s. Here's an example of how I use phpicalendar and magpie to
>> generate a page with a range of events <snip>
>
> Wow, that's cool.
>
> I apologise, I'm not versed on the inner working of phpicalendar or 
> RSS,
> certainly not magpierss. But I don't understand how you define the
> fields(?) in the RSS feed if it's generated from a .ics file.
>
> For example, $item['seminartitle'] and $item['seminarhost']. Where do
> these come from? I'd love to be able to define fields like "director",
> "rating" and "stars" for a film showing in my calendar. But how are
> these entered at the calendar stage?
>
> Also, Do I have to download the most recent rss.php from the CVS in
> order to use this?
>
> Thanks
>
> tola
>
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