News Block

Package: News Block

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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