Support/Comments for spiefeed 1.1-pl

This is an auto-generated topic for spiefeed 1.1-pl by goldsky.

Brief Description:

CHANGELOG:

• fixed the decoding on the category
• slimmed down the simplepie file contents

The snippet based on SimplePie 1.2 which is already included in the package: https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/tree/one-dot-two
Basic call: [ [ ! spiefeed ] ]

Documentation is here: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/spieFeed

goldsky I have to commend you on this, I know this is a bit late, but I just found the snippet and it works great, I love how you can pull the favicons to let people know where the original feed was from, with yahoo pipes it seems there is always one feed where a marketing firm is pumping out updates, essentially dominating the entire pipe. I was using getfeed with a pipe that had about twenty feeds, the load times were faster, but your snippet allows me so much more leeway on how to show the description content, images, favicons, etc, it’s just a kick but little extra.

I do however have a couple questions, looking at the docs, i understand setItemLimit is to pull however many returns from each feed, which is excellent and I have already put it to use, but I don’t understand where I would have to edit in the snippet itself to limit the amount returned from the entire feed ($start and $length parameters to get_items()).
You see I have about twenty feeds on one page and only 10 on another, but they time out, so I would still like to pull from all of these, but only show lets say the five most recent.

It’s really slowing down the page loads times. could you give me some tips on how to configure $start and $length? I would forever be in your debt

Just hold on for a while, I need to fix one or two things.
You just mentioned a bug.

I have a problem on updating the package.
Here attached is the upcoming update.
Just put it into your core/packages folder, scan locally the package through your package manager.

What you ask is the implementation of getItemStart and getItemLength (not getItemEnd as written on the doc).

thanks goldsky you are the best!
the load times have improved dramatically,
but I still can’t limit the returns, here’s the call

the &setItemLimit limits how many are returned from each feed?
and I assume the &getItemLength is how far it will go into a particular feed?
even looking at the docs I am not quite sure &getItemStart is for

but what I wanted to do, is from however many feeds I have, have only the ten most recent returned...for example if I pull my twitter feed with get feed, I can limit it to show only three of my last tweets. I still show one for each feed listed in the &setFeedUrl parameter

now, as most of my posts show, I tend to miss the obvious and waste people’s time, but I am not sure if I am doing this correctly.
apart from that, the load times are great now, loads just dramatically, no time out errors (even though some bad feeds were causing the time outs, the page load times were really slow) and in general this is one of the top ten snippets out there, super useful, highly configurable, and just importantly for a designer, stylable...like I said, the ability to pull the favicon shows visitors where that content is coming from. It really empowers people from not having to use pipes, and google’s rss can only be used in non-commercial sites, and you know google, they interpret the way they want to interpret...heck even using text-indent is a no no according to them!

FYI,
I just succeeded uploading the update, so it’s already available from the Package Manager.



Now talking about the limit, let’s say that in a date order, the feed comes as this:
1. Foo
2. Bar
3. Baz

&setItemLimit= `1` => makes the result only returns one item

• 1. Foo

&getItemStart=`2` => makes the result starts from number 2

• 2. Bar
• 3. Baz

&getItemStart= `2` &getItemLength=`1` => makes the result starts from number 2 for 1 item

• 2. Bar

So if your site is fed by 2 sources, &getItemStart and &getItemLength will be applied to each of the feeds, but &setItemLimit will be applied to the all summary result.

So in your case, I will use the &getItemStart to make the aggregating only retrieves the last 3.
It will make it fast.
Without this, spieFeed will always start by fetching ALL the feeds first, then check the &setItemLimit parameter to return the final result.

Thanks to the Simple Pie, I only make the bridge.

actually the div wasn’t a typo, I was having problems with css and I wanted to see if I could avoid !important, I know, hence my many stupid questions.
Thanks goldsky, you really and the others who have a handle on the real code of web development (css and html isn’t really were the magic happens, just eye candy) who make these extras so others, such as myself, can easily integrate this code into our projects.
My many respects to all you guys!! it’s seemingly little things which make our life so easier, wrapped around a CMS that simply kicks butt and takes names!