Using RSS Feeds: internal feeds

An RSS feed is a summary of a Website's news, files, and other activities that it distributes or syndicates to other Websites and individual users. RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. Indeed, RSS files are a nearly painless way to syndicate news and articles from one site to many. For instance, RSS files can be used to gather Slashdot news and Freshmeat releases, and display them on your Tiki. RDF is the Resource Description Framework, see links below.

Tiki is remarkably flexible when it comes to RSS. It can both display external RSS feeds from other sites in user modules and elsewhere and syndicate its activities (blogs, articles, forums, etc.) to other Websites via RSS.

The configuration of incoming RSS feeds is explained in RssModulesDoc. In this document, we'll describe the outgoing RSS feed (data Tiki provides for others to include into their site).

Tiki has RSS feeds for

• Wiki
• Blogs
• Articles
• Image galleries
• File galleries
• Forums
• Maps

You can find the feeds at the bottom bar (if it is switched on in admin menu):

Output is XML data in one of the following formats:

• RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 (fixed for Tiki 1.7.1)
• RDF Site Summary (RSS) 2.0 (introduced with Tiki 1.8)
• RSS 2.0 with attached stylesheet for display in browsers (introduced with Tiki 1.8)

You can configure availability and ouput in Admin (Click!) / RSS.

• Switch a single feed on/off
• Set number of entries for each feed
• Language tag for RDF output (eg en-us, de-de ...)
• Publisher (RDF 1.0 only)
• Creator (RDF 1.0 only)
• Editor (RDF 2.0 only)
• Webmaster (RDF 2.0 only)

• RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0
• RDF Site Summary (RSS) 2.0

TikiWiki is known now as a toolkit at http://www.syndic8.com, may be visible there any moment, a link has beed added to the documents section, too. RSS feeds are known there like this:

• article feed, RSS 1.0
• article feed, RSS 2.0

• wiki feed, RSS 1.0
• wiki feed, RSS 2.0

• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-wiki_rss.php results in default RDF 2.0 output.
• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-wiki_rss.php?ver=1 results in RDF 1.0 output.
• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-wiki_rss.php?ver=2&css=y results in RDF 2.0 output with attached stylesheet for better display in browsers, should not be used with other RDF parsers.

• Security: Currently, users can only access RSS feed output if the data are visible for group 'anonymous'. Example: if you want to access RSS feed for articles, the administrator of the site must have set articles viewable to anonymous. There is no possibility to provide a username and/or password for accessing secured RSS feeds. This is on the wishlist, see RssFeedDev.

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