Hi there,

I am trying to display one external RSS feed on a site homepage. I have looked around a fair bit and thread http://silverstripe.org/customising-the-cms/show/11548 is a convoluted way of doing it, with formatting problems and the "=" in links in the feed text become "%" when you click through so they don't work.

So is there an easier way of doing this? I just want to display one external RSS feed in a small window on the home page.

Cheers

I am sure there is a better way, but I've used simplepie for this in the past...

<?php
class RSSJobsPage extends Page {}
class RSSJobsPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
	function RSSJobsPage(){
		$output = new DataObjectSet();
		$feed = new SimplePie('http://www.silverstripe.org/blog/rss', TEMP_FOLDER);
		$feed->init();
		if($items = $feed->get_items(0, 10)){
			foreach($items as $item){
				// Cast the Date
				$date = new Date('Date');
				$date->setValue($item->get_date());

				// Cast the Title
				$title = new Text('Title');
				$title->setValue($item->get_title());

				// Cast the description and strip
				$desc = new Text('Description');
				$desc->setValue(strip_tags($item->get_description()));
				$output->push(new ArrayData(array(
					'Title'         => $title,
					'Date'         => $date,
					'Link'         => $item->get_link(),
					'Description'   => $desc
				)));
			}
		}

		return $output;
	}
}

attached is the source code for simple pie....

Thanks Swaiba, sorry for the delay.

I'm pretty new to php and the SS setup I'm afraid - would I put this code as a php file in mysite/code? I'd like the external feed to appear on the homepage, so it would be called in that template - how would I call the feed from the homepage.ss template?

Also where would I need to put the SimplePie php file?

Cheers

I'm not sure the advantage of using the SimplePie.php file. I found that if I add in the following line to the code example it works:

include_once(Director::getAbsFile(SAPPHIRE_DIR . '/thirdparty/simplepie/simplepie.inc'));

<?php
class RSSJobsPage extends Page {}
class RSSJobsPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
   function RSSJobsPage(){

      include_once(Director::getAbsFile(SAPPHIRE_DIR . '/thirdparty/simplepie/simplepie.inc'));

      $output = new DataObjectSet();
      $feed = new SimplePie('http://www.silverstripe.org/blog/rss', TEMP_FOLDER);
      $feed->init();
      if($items = $feed->get_items(0, 10)){
         foreach($items as $item){
            // Cast the Date
            $date = new Date('Date');
            $date->setValue($item->get_date());

            // Cast the Title
            $title = new Text('Title');
            $title->setValue($item->get_title());

            // Cast the description and strip
            $desc = new Text('Description');
            $desc->setValue(strip_tags($item->get_description()));
            $output->push(new ArrayData(array(
               'Title' => $title,
               'Date' => $date,
               'Link' => $item->get_link(),
               'Description' => $desc
            )));
         }
      }

      return $output;
   }
}