[WebDNA] RSS 2.0 Generator Code

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2008

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texte = RSS is supremely useful! If anyone needs to create feeds from the content ontheir site, you can syndicate via many sources - create email signaturesthat change automatically with your site content (feedburner.com), socialmedia widgets that broadcast updates (sproutbuilder.com), daily emails tomembers with what's new (feedburner.com), and lots of other useful things.Here is a script to create a RSS 2.0 compliant document by just feeding it atable of things you want to put in the feed.Laters, Olin===[tablename=data&fields=guid,thisdate,thistime,title,description,link][/table][function name=seeddata]--------------------------------------------------------Start Instructions^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^First, in the function "CREATE" edit the static RSS TITLE, DESCRIPTION, LINK, and LANGUAGE elements. Also set the encoding if different than UTF-8. Second, in THIS FUNCTION, create one record in the table "DATA" for every entry in your RSS feed. The GUID field is a unique id for each RSS entry. If your URLS are always unique for each entry, you can set the GUID to the URL. Third, if your dates are not text sortable (yyyy-mm-dd) then you need to adjust the search command in the create function with the following field: &thisdatetype=date Forth, set your time offset in the pubDate element. You RSS 2.0 compliant document will be created when this script is run. Also easy to tie this script to a write file/trigger to render RSS when needed. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^End Instructions - seed your data in the table below!--------------------------------------------------------examples of how to append data table...change with your data[appendtable=data]guid=1&thisdate=2008-12-01&thistime=10:10:01&title=[url]New ItemAdded: Blue Tie[/url]&description=[url]description[/url]&link=http[/append][appendtable=data]guid=2&thisdate=2008-12-02&thistime=10:10:01&title=[url]New ItemAdded: Green Tie[/url]&description=[url]description[/url]&link=http[/append][return][create][/return][/function][function name=formatdate][if "[platform]"^"Linux"] [then][return][linuxfix thisdate=[thisdate]], [/return][return][Format Days_To_Date %d %b%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/return] [/then] [else][return][Format Days_To_Date %a, %d %b%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/return][/else] [/if][/function][function name=linuxfix] [math]month=[Format Days_To_Date%m][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]year=[Format Days_To_Date%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]day=[Format Days_To_Date%d][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [showif [month]<3] [math]month=month+12[/math] [math]year=year-1[/math] [/showif] [switch value=[math](day+(2*month)+floor(6*(month +1)/10)+year+floor(year/4)-floor(year/100)+floor(year/400)+1)%7[/math]] [case value=0] [return]Sun[/return] [/case] [case value=1] [return]Mon[/return] [/case] [case value=2] [return]Tue[/return] [/case] [case value=3] [return]Wed[/return] [/case] [case value=4] [return]Thu[/return] [/case] [case value=5] [return]Fri[/return] [/case] [case value=6] [return]Sat[/return] [/case] [/switch] [return][/return][/function][function name=create] Your feed title Feed description http://yoururl/ en-us[searchtable=data&neguiddatarq=zx&thisdatesort=1&thisdatesdir=de&thistimesort=2&thistimesdir=de&max=1][foundItems] [formatdate thisdate=[thisdate]] [thistime]-0800[/foundItems][/search][searchtable=data&neguiddatarq=zx&thisdatesort=1&thisdatesdir=de&thistimesort=2&thistimesdir=de][foundItems] <![CDATA[[title]]]> [unurl][link][/unurl] [guid] [formatdate thisdate=[thisdate]] [thistime] -0800 [/foundItems][/search][/function][seeddata] Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

[WebDNA] RSS 2.0 Generator Code ("Olin Lagon" 2008)

RSS is supremely useful! If anyone needs to create feeds from the content ontheir site, you can syndicate via many sources - create email signaturesthat change automatically with your site content (feedburner.com), socialmedia widgets that broadcast updates (sproutbuilder.com), daily emails tomembers with what's new (feedburner.com), and lots of other useful things.Here is a script to create a RSS 2.0 compliant document by just feeding it atable of things you want to put in the feed.Laters, Olin===[tablename=data&fields=guid,thisdate,thistime,title,description,link][/table][function name=seeddata]--------------------------------------------------------Start Instructions^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^First, in the function "CREATE" edit the static RSS TITLE, DESCRIPTION, LINK, and LANGUAGE elements. Also set the encoding if different than UTF-8. Second, in THIS FUNCTION, create one record in the table "DATA" for every entry in your RSS feed. The GUID field is a unique id for each RSS entry. If your URLS are always unique for each entry, you can set the GUID to the URL. Third, if your dates are not text sortable (yyyy-mm-dd) then you need to adjust the search command in the create function with the following field: &thisdatetype=date Forth, set your time offset in the pubDate element. You RSS 2.0 compliant document will be created when this script is run. Also easy to tie this script to a write file/trigger to render RSS when needed. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^End Instructions - seed your data in the table below!--------------------------------------------------------examples of how to append data table...change with your data[appendtable=data]guid=1&thisdate=2008-12-01&thistime=10:10:01&title=[url]New ItemAdded: Blue Tie[/url]&description=[url]description[/url]&link=http[/append][appendtable=data]guid=2&thisdate=2008-12-02&thistime=10:10:01&title=[url]New ItemAdded: Green Tie[/url]&description=[url]description[/url]&link=http[/append][return][create][/return][/function][function name=formatdate][if "[platform]"^"Linux"] [then][return][linuxfix thisdate=[thisdate]], [/return][return][Format Days_To_Date %d %b%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/return] [/then] [else][return][Format Days_To_Date %a, %d %b%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/return][/else] [/if][/function][function name=linuxfix] [math]month=[Format Days_To_Date%m][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]year=[Format Days_To_Date%Y][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [math]day=[Format Days_To_Date%d][math]{[thisdate]}[/math][/Format][/math] [showif [month]<3] [math]month=month+12[/math] [math]year=year-1[/math] [/showif] [switch value=[math](day+(2*month)+floor(6*(month +1)/10)+year+floor(year/4)-floor(year/100)+floor(year/400)+1)%7[/math]] [case value=0] [return]Sun[/return] [/case] [case value=1] [return]Mon[/return] [/case] [case value=2] [return]Tue[/return] [/case] [case value=3] [return]Wed[/return] [/case] [case value=4] [return]Thu[/return] [/case] [case value=5] [return]Fri[/return] [/case] [case value=6] [return]Sat[/return] [/case] [/switch] [return][/return][/function][function name=create] Your feed title Feed description http://yoururl/ en-us[searchtable=data&neguiddatarq=zx&thisdatesort=1&thisdatesdir=de&thistimesort=2&thistimesdir=de&max=1][founditems] [formatdate thisdate=[thisdate]] [thistime]-0800[/foundItems][/search][searchtable=data&neguiddatarq=zx&thisdatesort=1&thisdatesdir=de&thistimesort=2&thistimesdir=de][founditems] <![CDATA[[title]]]> [unurl][link][/unurl] [guid] [formatdate thisdate=[thisdate]] [thistime] -0800 [/foundItems][/search][/function][seeddata] "Olin Lagon"

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[WebDNA] RSS 2.0 Generator Code

2008

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