Present data-feeds (.txt or .xml) in HTML chunks in MODx EVO

Hi,

My aim is to present spreadsheet data-feeds (.txt or .xml) in HTML.

The REVO extra getFeed would serve my purposes, but I am on EVO.

Here is what I came up with so far:

1) My data-feeds are in .txt.
2) My column headings are for example:
- id
- property type
- minimum rental period
- location
- price
3) I have multiple data-feeds with different column headings in each.
4) I have the HMTL chunk written for how I wish to present the data-feed details for each record on my website.
5) For the HTML chunks did I use "placeholders" (similar to how I would use template variables) for each of my column headings (so for example, a placeholder would be "property type").
6) My question is where to store the data-feed spreadsheet on my server and MODx?
7) Another question, the big question, since I cannot use getFeed, is how to have the HTML chunk call on the data-feed spreadsheet to grab the details of each record? I guess I would need a snippet and make a call from my template in which I place the data-feed chunk?

Any advise (possible extras, snippets) to help me think and act in the right direction is much appreciated.

why dont you store them in a modx database using MIGX? much easier to do than scraping data from an xml or txt file which is very old fashion way of doing it.

Quote from: comp_nerd26 at Oct 02, 2015, 03:23 PM

why dont you store them in a modx database using MIGX? much easier to do than scraping data from an xml or txt file which is very old fashion way of doing it.

I am using MODx EVO and MIGX seems to be REVO only...

Any alternative I can use that is similar for my EVO site?

ah right ok, ive not used evo
but regarding storing the data, on my websites ive created a separate system from modx as a sub domain, then just used Curl in a snippet to retrieve the data.

Quote from: comp_nerd26 at Oct 02, 2015, 03:45 PM

ah right ok, ive not used evo
but regarding storing the data, on my websites ive created a separate system from modx as a sub domain, then just used Curl in a snippet to retrieve the data.

Thanks, @comp_nerd26, I hope to find a similar solution to how getFeed (REVO) works but then for my EVO... thanks anyways.

If anybody has some ideas...

Try FeedX for Evo