collective.portlet.rssjs 0.2

Motivation

Using the standard RSS Feed Portlet of Plone, you may end up in blocked Zope threads when the requested URLs are not responding in a sensible time. This alternative prohibits this by doing the work on the client.

Abstract

collective.portlet.rssjs is a Plone product that adds a new Portlet RSS Feed (JS) to the Plone site.

This portlet uses the GOOGLE FEEDS API via ajax to get and parse rss feeds.

As a boilerplate

 http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jgfeed

was used.

The dom is manipulated on the client to add the Feed Items.

The portlet has the same markup as the std Plone RSS Feed portlet.


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Requirements:

· Python
· Plone CMS

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· add pubdate for feed entries, showing the date using toLocaleDateString [hplocher]
· add even/odd classes [hplocher]
· add compatibility with Plone 3 (use jQuery instead of $, as $ is undefined in Plone 3) [hplocher]