Package:  News Block

Author: squatty

Home Page: www.squatty.com

Latest Version:  1.4

Geeklog Version:  1.3.7

Release Date:  07-23-2002

Package Type:  Block

Description:

The Headline News block is a Geeklog phpblock for displaying links to featured news stories made available from compatible RDF/RSS content feed.  Included in the source code is a list of many popular RDF/RSS feeds made available for public use on Morover.

Feature Summary:

• Displays links to stories for RDF/RSS compatible news feeds.  The block utilizes the same code base as the Geeklog (1.3.5) Portal block.
• Consists of four views:  default view, detailed view, category view, and administration view:
  • Default view is the main phpblock view (home page block).  Registered users can customize the news provider.  Anonymous users will receive the default provider set by the news administrator.
  • Detailed view is a secondary view where users can view specific feeds before setting their default provider.
  • Category view is a secondary view where users can view specific feeds sorted by category.
  • Administration view is where a user configures his/her default news feed and where the site news admin sets the default news feed.  The news admin can also add, update, or delete RDF/RSS feeds.
• Caches all content in MySQL
• Has a built in block timer (disabled by default) for measuring the execution time of the block

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Last Updated Monday, March 03 2003 @ 05:22 AM EST