[phpws-comm-auto] [ phpwebsite-comm-/mod/phpwsrssfeeds-1076900 ] Feed aggregation

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/mod/phpwsrssfeeds item #1076900, was opened at 2004-12-01 09:00
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Category: RFE
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 8
Submitted By: Wendall Cada (wendall911)
Assigned to: Wendall Cada (wendall911)
Summary: Feed aggregation

Initial Comment:
Transfered from phpwsRSSFeeds project.

Submitted By:
David M Walker - datamgmt

Date Submitted:
2003-12-26 07:47

 OK, so we now have a wonderful richness of RSS feeds
but we can quickly become overwhelmed by them.

So a really neat feature would be this:

Define a feed 'group' that contains channels (say):

BBC
Yahoo
CNN

Each with many items/

Now define a new local feed called News
that takes the channel and the first n (configurable)
items from a group and re-published them as a new feed

so I get a new feed MyFeed

That has items:

BBC - Story 1
BBC - Story 2
Yahoo - Story 1
Yahoo - Story 2
CNN - Story 1
CNN - Story 2

This allows me to aggregate and keep my website simple
and also with slowly changing RSS feeds keep them
updating reasonably fast

rgds
davidw

Date: 2004-10-06 09:04
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I'd really like to see this feature, it would make life
much 
easier. Why not simply add the stories in some sort of 
container, like singletrack wrote? the order of adding
would 
then define the order of display. as easy as that.

Date: 2004-01-10 01:25
Sender: singletrack
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It's a pity that RSS items don't contain datestamps.
Being able
to
merge a group of feeds chronologically would provide a
really 
easy way to publish news from multiple sites on your
own front 
page.

eg.

CNN - Story 1
CNN - Story 2
BBC - Story 1
Yahoo - Story 1
BBC - Story 2
Yahoo - Story 2

Could you order them by the time the item arrived in
the local 
cache perhaps Wendall?

Date: 2003-12-29 04:08
Sender: datamgmt
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Wendall, forgive me if this is an egg sucking exercise but
thinking about it even more:

If you added two extra tables 'groups' and
'groups_to_feeds'
or similar then each feed would only have to be registered
once in the normal way, and any given group could have any
feed in it. The groups table would then have the attributes
such as items pre channel to select and a sorted/random
flag.

The 'groups_to_feeds' table could then contain a
priority for
each feed and it the sort flag was selected then the
priority would be used to sort the order in which feeds
were
displayed.

Date: 2003-12-27 17:51
Sender: wendall911
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Good idea. Thanks for the feedback.

Wendall

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Comment By: Wendall Cada (wendall911)
Date: 2005-01-09 14:57

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Ok, aggregation was added, but at this point, it is by date
only. I roughed in the setting field to add support for
grouping. Expect to see this added sometime in the 0.4.x
series releases.

Wendall

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