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@globaltimoto, The boolean value passed is a mod...

2011-09-27T20:08:53.000+10:00

@globaltimoto,

The boolean value passed is a modification to the original Dimox code that only includes the link to home if false is passed. If true is passed, the home link is ignored, and the breadcrumb is outputted as text only.

I have wrapped each of the examples below in comment lines to help destinguish my notes from each snippet from the modified function.

Below is the top of the modified function, where the $before and $after variables are set to a blank string if true is passed:

//start of example snippet ------------
function dimox_breadcrumbs($meta_title = false) {

$delimiter = '»';
$home = 'Home'; // text for the 'Home' link
$before = '<span class="current">'; // tag before the current crumb
$after = '</span>'; // tag after the current crumb

if(!$meta_title)
{
$before = '<span class="current">'; // tag before the current crumb
$after = '</span>'; // tag after the current crumb
}
else
{
$before = ''; // tag before the current crumb
$after = ''; // tag after the current crumb
}
//end of snippet ------------

There are further minor tweaks throughout the function to only include html tags when false is passed to the function and also to include the home link only when true is passed. (Note: I haven't included the entire function, only modified sections)

Only show home link if false:

//start of example snippet ------------
if(!$meta_title)
echo '<div id="crumbs">';

global $post;
$homeLink = get_bloginfo('url');
if(!$meta_title)
echo '<a href="' . $homeLink . '">' . $home . '</a> ' . $delimiter . ' ';
//end of snippet ------------

Render as text if $meta_title is true:

//start of example snippet ------------
if(!$meta_title)
$breadcrumbs[] = '<a href="' . get_permalink($page->ID) . '">' . get_the_title($page->ID) . '</a>';
else
$breadcrumbs[] = get_the_title($page->ID);
//end of snippet ------------

Ignore html tags if $meta_title is true (bottom of function):

//start of example snippet ------------
if(!$meta_title)
echo '</div>';

}
//end of snippet ------------

The example code in the post above is the modified title tag, which includes the breadcrumb.

The other page from the template I included the breadcrumb is the "Page Template" (page.php in my case):

Close to the top of the page content, I included the following:

//start of example snippet ------------
<?php dimox_breadcrumbs(); ?>
//end of snippet ------------

Inlcluding only on the page template meant that the breadcrumb would display when pages on the site were being viewed, but not posts and other content types.

Please let me know if this helps. I have avoided re-posting the entire modified function, but can provide further explanation if required, but can provide further explanation if required. This was implemented on the Php FeedWriter Website.

Do you have an example of this or perhaps the fini...

2011-09-24T00:12:57.830+10:00

Do you have an example of this or perhaps the finished code so that I may try it out too ?

Avoid companies which claims to give guaranteed ra...

2011-09-14T19:02:07.163+10:00

Avoid companies which claims to give guaranteed ranking or traffic within a short period of time. SEO is something that cannot be done overnight. They might be cheating you or using unethical techniques to deceive Google.

seo services

Hi I am very new at this, I want to use your scrip...

2011-07-11T18:48:25.732+10:00

Hi I am very new at this, I want to use your script to add ?id=abc to all urls on my page. What changes do I need to make to get this done?

Hi, Version 3.0 (beta) has been released. This n...

2011-06-29T23:05:29.956+10:00

Hi,

Version 3.0 (beta) has been released. This now includes the ability to output Atom 1.0, RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), RSS 0.92 and RSS 0.91.

The main class file has also been renamed to FeedWriter as the solution is no longer limited to only RSS 2.0. The solution as a whole is now Php FeedWriter, which starts at version 3.0 (beta) and is the next major update to the RSS2Writer class.

For more details, please see my post: Php FeedWriter 3.0 Beta Release, or the Php FeedWriter Website. Version 3.0 (beta) is available from the website.

The website also includes documentation for each component of the FeedWriter and new FeedConstruct class.

this help me lot thnx for post...

2011-06-23T16:26:30.624+10:00

this help me lot thnx for post...

Thanks for sharing the informative post!!!

2011-06-22T22:41:30.136+10:00

Thanks for sharing the informative post!!!

Thank you!!

2011-05-24T03:23:12.948+10:00

Thank you!!

Today, it really makes sense if an online business...

2011-04-28T19:21:24.492+10:00

Today, it really makes sense if an online business will decide to outsource SEO especially if it's looking for fast results and save money. There are a lot of SEO outsourcing companies right now that can handle outsourced projects very well.

SEO Outsourcing

Just a quick update.. The v3 update is close to c...

2011-04-24T12:52:00.514+10:00

Just a quick update..

The v3 update is close to completion, which has involved almost a complete work-over. A beta release will be first made available for others to try, which is likely to contain glitches. I am also working on documentation that will accompany the new version.

It currently outputs RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 2.0 and a not quite valid Atom 1.0 format (currently working on). RSS 1.0 (RDF) output is also supported, but not yet functioning properly.

The construct of each feed format is configured in a new class, which allows each element, including validation constraints and attributes to be added. Functions provided by the class allow each feed construct to be traversed in a tree/hierarchical manner. This is used to both validate and output a feed in a particular format using generic code.

Looking forward to it's completion..

I was just thinking about searching for url's ...

2011-04-11T09:56:15.132+10:00

I was just thinking about searching for url's that were missing the domain name. E.g. images/mypicture.jpg. But, you're right, it could get difficult, and I'm not sure if it's really needed in most cases.

Ok, the class update is coming along now... So fa...

2011-04-09T20:06:16.045+10:00

Ok, the class update is coming along now...

So far, I have incorporated the following into the class:

- New class name
- Add functionality to include media files in an enclosure element.
- Fixed content type issues (@jjames)
- Added option stylesheet integration (@Jack)
- Included character encoding changes (@Muhammad)

I am part way through RSS 1.0, and Atom 1.0 compatible XML output formats, which I will completed once all other updates have been incorporated, to allow code re-use.

I hope to publish a beta version soon for others to try.

@Jack, I can't see an example or documentation anywhere for an RSS feed with JavaScript integrated. There are plenty of resources for rending RSS feeds using JavaScript, but not to include JS in a feed.

Do you (or anyone else), know if this is included in the RSS 2.0, or Atom schemas?

Thanks

Daniel

@jjames, do you mean absolute by including the dom...

2011-04-09T14:58:36.329+10:00

@jjames, do you mean absolute by including the domain name before urls without it, or to convert relative paths (eg. "../page1.php", "page2.php", ../../somefolder/page3.php ) to absolute.

The issue that I see is that it would be difficult to programmatically determine the path back to the root of the site, which would be required in order to build the absolute path. Additional contextual information would need to be provided at some point when populating the feed to allow the class to update paths to absolute.

On the other hand, changing only absolute paths that are missing the domain component to include the domain would be easier to implement, and should have more consistent results.

I would probably implement this by finding links in the feed description with a href attribute that begins with "/" and including the domain and protocol before the existing address.

What do you think?

I've noticed several of my descriptions, that ...

2011-04-08T23:00:08.786+10:00

I've noticed several of my descriptions, that are being pulled from a database, include relative href and src links. If possible, it would be pretty cool if the class could check for those links and change them to absolute.

Also, to expand on what Muhammad mentioned. It would be nice to not only check for trademarks, copyrights and registrations, but also smart quotes, elipsis, em and en dashes, one quarter, one half, three quarters and ampersands.

Due to the recent increase in use of the RSS2Write...

2011-04-08T18:57:54.550+10:00

Due to the recent increase in use of the RSS2Writer class, I am getting the next major update underway. I propose that the solution and supporting documentation also be moved to a new dedicated site, which will provide areas for the development community to discuss aspects of the class, suggest ideas for future development and any usage issues. The class will also remain available from this blog.

I intend for the class (including future versions) to remain a free resource for Php web developers, as long as I continue to receive support from the community. A reasonable amount of my time has already been spent developing and supporting the class, which I hope to continue as a community effort. The time I have spent on this class (and my blogs) is my own time (out of work hours). Any help from others to speed up the process of improving the class would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for those who have contributed so far.

I will consolidate the suggestions for improvement made on this post for inclusion in the update, and will attempt to include suggestions posted in the near future as well. I will include comments in the code with the name of someone who has provided input where possible, unless specifically asked not to be included.

One of the enhancements that I personally intend to include is the ability to output the feed data in more than just an RSS 2.0 compatible format. This will also result in the newer version of the class having a more general name such as FeedWriter, or similar. Previous versions of the class will remain available.

In the new version the getXML() function will probably remain, but it’s functionality will be moved to 3 additional functions such as getRSS1(), getRSS2() and getAtom(). Each method will output the feed data in the corresponding format. I will attempt to make functionality in the new version backwards compatible (same function names and core functionality), apart from the new class name.

Please let me know (soon) if you have any suggestions or concerns.

Hi Daniel, First of all congrats on writing a good...

2011-04-07T17:44:34.059+10:00

Hi Daniel,
First of all congrats on writing a good class of RSS.

I would like to suggest an addition to the class, please add it in your future versions if helpful.

ok, recently i was developing a website for my client and i used your class for generating dynamic RSS feeds. The feed data is based on recent posts by users, so their is less control over the feed data. i.e.

ISO 8859-1 Symbols, ISO 8859-1 Characters are directly pasted by users and not encoded. characters like copyright or registered trademark symbols etc

the getXML function generates the feed but it ends up in error as feed readers generate a parse error.

i have updated 2 lines in get XML, previously updated by abasit83.

line 310: $writer->writeCData($item['title']);
to $writer->writeCData(htmlentities($item['title']));

line 349" $writer->writeCData($item['description']);
to $writer->writeCData(htmlentities($item['description']));

This will encode the characters to entity name.

Thanks
Muhammad Khalid.
PHP Software Engineer.

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2011-04-07T07:55:29.228+10:00

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In order to get channelImage() to work, I had to c...

2011-04-07T01:51:24.989+10:00

In order to get channelImage() to work, I had to change $rss2_writer, in the example to $rss. It doesn't seem like the width and height work though.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to associate a image with each item. It sounds like it requires the enclosure tag.

Also, feed validator keeps telling me "Feeds should not be served with the "text/html" media type".

ok I have resolved for the moment inserting image ...

2011-04-03T15:15:38.683+10:00

ok I have resolved for the moment inserting image in the description/body of the feed item as html.
However when you have time for complete your feed generator can you build a function to insert css:

http://www.petefreitag.com/item/208.cfm
and i don't know also if is possible add also javascript code in xml feed?
thanks bye

The System.IO.Path has a static method(GetRandomFi...

2011-04-03T02:17:53.568+10:00

The System.IO.Path has a static method(GetRandomFileName) which creates a random file name with 12 length.you can wrap this method in a custom class to create a random string with specific length

happy .net coding
Mehdi,Kiani

Thanks for the code. I ran into trouble getting ra...

2011-04-03T02:10:44.156+11:00

Thanks for the code. I ran into trouble getting random strings They seemed to repeat after a while. I added a line of code that uses a new Guid to create the seed:

byte[] seed = Guid.NewGuid().ToByteArray();
Random random = new Random(BitConverter.ToInt32(seed,0));

I like to think this gives me a more random number.

@Jack, I will have a look at the class in the next...

2011-03-29T21:01:18.738+11:00

@Jack, I will have a look at the class in the next week or so. I have been struggling to find time lately due to my current workload.

Just to clarify, you would like to have the ability to associate an image with an item in the feed instead of the channel, and with the three optional elements for the url, title and description.

I had a quick look at the RSS 2.0 Specification on W3C, and also a thread here, which talks about including images in feed items.

The image element is a sub-element of the channel element only. It looks like an image needs to be included using the <enclosure> element. The feed viewers that I use all list attached media at the bottom of each item, which are included using the enclosure element.

Alternatively, the image can be included in the description/body of the feed item as html. Using this approach, functionality could be added to the class to insert image html into the feed item description, which can displayed in the top left, but it would be under the title.

Would you find this useful as an alternative to the enclosure, or would you prefer to use the enclosure method (which should be incorporated into the class regardless)?

Are you aware of other methods of associating an image with a feed item?

Thanks

Hey DanielS, I got the code working. Actually the...

2011-03-25T07:49:05.615+11:00

Hey DanielS,

I got the code working. Actually there was no issue with code. Every browser requires Rss reader program. I installed it in chrome and then script was working fine. About IE8 i don't remember exactly but i changed some settings in IE8 and script is is showing correct output.

Thanks very much for the script.

Hi i have found that is possible add an image inse...

2011-03-22T17:50:08.722+11:00

Hi i have found that is possible add an image inserting in description item
However i wait your answer
Also i want ask you if is possible insert following schemas in items:

image title
url
description

with image inserted at left of title
thanks

hello thanks for the script i want ask it's po...

2011-03-22T17:07:00.777+11:00

hello thanks for the script i want ask it's possible add also an image in Item instead of channel
thanks