David,
Thanks for the explanation. Works like a charm.
One more question: is it possible to have a parameter in a route that only
appears for a certain ouptut type.
E.g.: I have the route
<route name="Nieuws" pattern="^/nieuws/(page:\S+)?" module="Algemeen"
action="NieuwsTonen>
<defaults>
<default for="page">1</default>
</default>
</route>
Combined with the rss output type this gives url's like /nieuws/1/rss. This is
not very elegant and the page parameter is actually only relevant for the html
output (sine that is paged, but rss just displays the latest X news items).
Greetings,
Koen
P.S.: I already had a baseview, but I did not have the setup with
executeHtml(). Thanks for the tip.
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens David Zülke
> Verzonden: maandag 22 januari 2007 13:58
> Aan: Agavi Users Mailing List
> Onderwerp: Re: [Agavi-Users] Generating a RSS feed
>
> Hi Koen,
>
> you were right - all you need is a new output type!
>
> First, you have to define that new one (e.g. "rss") in
> output_types.xml. You can define a renderer if you want to
> use a template to generate the output, or you omit the
> renderer definition and use a library to generate the RSS
> content in the view (even though I'm not aware of any PHP
> libraries that generate RSS).
> Next, simply define executeRss() in your View and put the
> necessary code in there.
> Now all that's left is to decide that we want RSS as the
> output type and not HTML. To do that, you have several
> options. You can use the
> routing:
> <route name="rss" stop="false" pattern="/rss$"
> output_type="rss" /> That will set the output type to "rss"
> for all URLs that end on /rss.
> You can generate such an RSS variant of a URL using
> $r->gen('routename
> +rss', ...);
> Alternatively, you could use a filter, but that's not very elegant.
> The last opportunity to change the output type is in your
> view's initialize method, you could check a request parameter
> there or something. But using the routing is definitely the way to go.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> David
>
>
> P.S: it is recommended that you have a MyBaseView from which
> all views extend. This base view has an execute() method that
> throws an exception, or forwards to a 404 action. All your
> specific views implement only executeHtml(), executeRss() etc
> methods. That way, you do not need to worry about the routing
> setting an output type that some of your actions/views do not
> implement.
>
>
>
> Am 22.01.2007 um 08:58 schrieb Van Daele, Koen:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to make a RSS feed for newsitems. I've already got
> an action
> > a a view to display the html page with the newsitems, but
> now I'd like
> > to generate a feed for this.
> >
> > Do I need to define a completely different but identical action for
> > this or can I reuse the action and e.g. set the output type to rss?
> > Can anyone give an example of the different files that need to be
> > altered for this (routing, output_types, view, ...)?
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Koen
> >
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