On 12/9/06, Matt Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a wordpress blog on my site. On a TG page, I'd like to somehow > display the first first paragraph from the blog. > > When I look at the RSS feed for the blog, there's a description node > that has exactly the text I want. > > I see two ways to do this, but I hope somebody else has a better idea. > 1. Hit the MySQL database from TG and extract the stuff I want in my > controller. I don't really like this approach because it requires > going to another database. > > 2. Somehow grab the RSS feed off localhost, do some XML parsing to grab > the description section, and display that.
Doing it this way should be easy using feedparser http://feedparser.org/ d = feedparser.parse("http://...";) for item in d.feed: print item.description or something like that. > > Like I said, I hope somebody has a better solution. > > TIA > > MAtt > > > > > -- cheers elvelind grandin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
