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Using RSS Feeds: internal feeds

General Description


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 "Rich Site Summary" (sometimes also used as 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 (or RssModules ). In this document, we'll describe the outgoing RSS feed (data Tiki provides for others to include into their site).

Key Function and sub-features


Tiki has RSS feeds for


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

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Earlier versions of tiki provide the following output formats:

  • ATOM 0.3 (since Tiki 1.8.1)
  • RSS 1.0 - RDF Site Summary 1.0 (fixed for Tiki 1.7.1)
  • RSS 2.0 - RDF Site Summary 2.0 (since Tiki 1.8)
  • any of those with attached stylesheet for better display in browsers


Tiki 1.9.x and newer provide the following output formats, using Kai Blankenhorn's LGPL library FeedCreator:

  • ATOM 0.3
  • HTML
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • MBOX
  • OPML
  • PIE 0.1
  • RSS 0.91
  • RSS 1.0
  • RSS 2.0
  • some of those with attached stylesheet for better display in browsers

Configuration


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

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

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Related Links


TikiWiki is known as a toolkit at http://www.syndic8.com (ToolkitInfo).

tw.org's links are known there as follows:

Typical Uses


Case Studies

Bugs

  • 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 currently to provide a username and/or password for accessing secured RSS feeds. This is on the wishlist, see RssFeedDev.

  • Conflict: Does not work if gzipped output option is on

Support Requests

  • It seems that early 1.9 does not process the Wiki syntax into HTML (or whatever markup is legal in RSS) at least for Articles. If one uses an article RSS feed from Tiki on another site, and has wiki-formatted external references made by use of square brackets ([]) in the articles themselves, they do not show up as links in the resulting output on the remote site; rather, the brackets from wiki-formatting is still there. Is this a bug or a feature? Or has this been resolved in the meantime. (Userpagefilmil)

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