MX RSS Reader-Writer User Manual
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1. http www interaktonline com Page 9 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual applied to the lt item gt element e Display Starting Ending Record Number and Display Total Records these server behaviors will insert a text similar to Records 1 to 5 from 25 e Server Behaviors corresponding to the navigation bar there are some Show If and MoveTo Page server behaviors that are included when the commands inserts the navigation bar e Show If Recordset Is Not Empty this conditional region is applied to the entire table generated by the command e Show If Recordset Is Empty this conditional region will display an error message if the recordset has no data For more information about the RSS Reader Recordset inserted by the RSS Reader command please refer the corresponding section further in this document Multiple RSS in One PHP Website Page The PHP MX RSS Reader Writer version enables you to display outputs from multiple RSS You should simply apply the RSS Reader command more than once in a site page Using CSS to Display the RSS Output In order to display the RSS Output in the website page for the import feature MX RSS Reader Writer uses a CSS file located in includes MXRSS styles MX_RSS css This file contains classes for the channel title and description for the table elements where the items are displayed in a repeat region and for the items title and description The2. nodes specified in the RDF and move them as sub elements of the lt channel gt element All the namespaces will be then removed and the engine will try to parse the resulting XML as a simple RSS file http www interaktonline com Page 18 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Copyright Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Inc Redhat is a trademark of Redhat Inc Dreamweaver MX is a trademark of Macromedia Inc http www interaktonline com Page 19 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Copyrights and Trademarks Copyright 2000 2004 by InterAKT Online All Rights Reserved This tutorial is subject to copyright protection PHAkt ImpAKT NeXTensio MX Query Builder tNG Transaction Engine MX Includes KTML MX Kommerce MX Kollection MX Widgets MX Looper MX Widgets MX RSS Reader Writer MX Site Search MX Breadcrumbs are trademarks of InterAKT Online All other trademarks are acknowledged as the property of their respective owners This document and the product to which it pertains are distributed under licenses restricting their use copying distribution and decompilation No part of this document or of the associated product may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of InterAKT Online except when presenting only a summary of the tutorial and then linking to the InterAKT website DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL E
3. Image URL Jinterakt_logo giF Browse Image Title InterAKT Online logo ZS Image Link p www interaktonline com Company News 4A ddi Help If you are using MBSTRING leave this text field blank nte d else enter the encoding utf 8 iso 8859 2 etc used in your database Figure 4 The RSS Writer command the Channel tab The user interface above contains the following fields for the Channel tab e Encoding this text field will be used to convert the output to the desired encoding http www interaktonline com Page 11 lInterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual The PHP users should leave the text field blank if they have the MBSTRING module Caution __ installed and the encoding will be utf 8 by default Else they should enter the desired encoding utf 8 iso 8859 1 etc For the ColdFusion and ASP version this field is required it cannot be left unfilled Required Elements e Title in this text field enter the channel title e Link in this text field enter the URL to the website corresponding to the channel e Description in this text field enter a phrase describing the channel Optional Elements e Publication Date in this text field enter the date on which the content will be published in the channel e Copyright in this text field enter a copyright notice for the content in the channel e Image URL in this text field enter the image UR
4. MX limitation regarding the way recordsets are defined they should always be linked to a database connection e URL in this text field you should enter the URL to the RSS file you want to import in your website By clicking on the corresponding Test button you will test if the URL is valid if it is an XML file and if it is a valid RSS e Time Out in this text field enter the frequency in minutes at which the cache will be refreshed The default value is 60 ZE Tips When testing the site it is better if you set the Time Out to 0 minute This way you will not have to wait until the cache refreshes and you will be able to test properly e Items per page in this text field enter the number of items you want each page to display e NavBar images when checking this box images will be displayed in the navigation bar placed under the items list Otherwise the navigation bar will display links The Inserted Server Behaviors Once applied this command inserts the following elements in the Server Behaviors list in the Application panel e RSS Recordset this is an advanced recordset that stores the items and other elements of the lt channel gt tag of the RSS These elements will be visible from the Bindings tab e Dynamic Text for all the RSS elements channel title item title item description and so on e Repeat Region this server behavior iteratively displays the records from the RSS Reader Recordset and it is
5. e description e lastBuildDate automatically generated as UTC time ex Mon 13 Dec 2004 11 53 27 GMT e Optional elements e pubDate copyright e item e Required elements e title e description e Optional elements e link e author e pubDate category source with url attribute Supported tags by RSS Reader e channel e title e link e description e lastBuildDate e pubDate copyright e item e title e description e link e author e pubDate category e source with url attribute http www interaktonline com Page 17 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual RSS 1 0 experimental support RSS 1 0 RDF support in this release is experimental and will support only a subset of its nodes The MX RSS Reader engine will actually try convert the RSS 1 0 RDF file to simple RSS 2 0 format The engine will try to convert several elements present in the Dublin Core specification http web resource org rss 1 0 modules dc lt dc title gt will be converted to a lt title gt element lt dc description gt will be converted to a lt description gt element lt dc date gt will be converted to a lt pubDate gt element lt dc rights gt will be converted to a lt copyright gt element lt dc creator gt will be converted to a lt author gt element lt dc source gt will be converted to a lt source gt element Also the engine will try to detect the lt item gt
6. Inter t Dreamweaver extensions for dynamic websites MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual version 1 0 http www interaktonline com InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Table of Contents roduc e ME 3 daelder TE 4 eebe ee See ddi ES ge eene A Typographic ee Ve NEE A Accessing MX RSS Reader Writer Commands and Advanced Recordset 2 cccccesseseeeceeeeeeeeseeeeeees 5 S pported RSS VERSIONS TE 5 ENG OGIING E 5 CONGO DUS AAE AE AE EA A AE A E A A E E AE E 7 RSS COmGe pt icc irana aa a aa a aaa a A r AE a EA aE EA NEEE AE E AAEREN AENA AAEE REE Ea 7 MX RSS Reader Writer Concept ccesseeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeseeaneeceeeensenseeeee eaaeeeceeeeesnaseeeeeseeesasseaneeseeeenseeseenees 8 RSS Reader Goran uguNSkENSKKSNEKEENNNNNENENNNNNNNNKESNEEKNNEENNNENNNRSEK AENA NEED 9 BIS 1 91 6 10 DEE 9 Se ACS oe Feet nc aE A ATA E E E A E E ETARE eg eg 9 User Interface Specifications EE 9 The Inserted Server Bebavieote e kedeERERNSVENERSNeKNEENNEENNERNREK NEEN EEENNE suaventvetuneecctus suscettasesvixtenecetineucstaessecsix 9 Multiple RSS in One PHP Website Page cccccssccsssnctasdencsnesdacesseadeceasdencesteandeamucaaaeahcaateeddcanesdacanndasaceds 10 Using C Ss to Display the Ros Output scape ide ride tee i ae a deES 10 RSS Writ r Command gege a BENENNEN ENEE ENEE 11 DSS edel EE 11 UE len e 11 The Inserted Server BEWAVION EE 13 RSS Reader IREC
7. L It can be either a absolute URL or a relative one by clicking on the Browse button e Image Title in this text field enter the image title This will be displayed when moving the mouse over the image e Image Link in this text field enter the link that the image will point to when clicking on it The Items tab Channel K Items Recordset rsitems D Cancel Required Elements Help Title lt php row_rsItems title_nws gt A Description lt php row_rsItems desc_nws gt A Optional Elements Link Ir Author rs Publication Date lt php row_rsItems date_nws gt Sl Category lt php row_rsItems title ctg gt SZ Source Ir Source URL Ir A Interi kt Figure 5 The RSS Writer command the Item tab ddi The user interface above contains the following fields for the Items tab http www interaktonline com Page 12 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Items Recordset in this text field select the recordset which retrieves the items content from the database L Noe The following interface fields will be filled in with the corresponding database fields by clicking on the lightening bolt icon Required Elements e Title in this text field enter the item title e Description in this text field enter the item description Optional Elements e Link in this text field enter the URL of the item e Author in t
8. OPrdS Gti iies vicceicsssicsssiesedencadassaasuisdacsanieccadasuinigesdnesdnnonnacbunsapadanosnsdwonsaesudnasuiudicuanienen 14 DOS er LS EE 14 USEF EE 14 User Interface e HS 14 RSS Writer Server TEILEN 15 DESCRIP HOM sins A E E E E E E gadeyevendgenebadcucuenacacsvdeawaredtereweledes 15 Bs Le I Le EE 16 Furthe r Tt ET 16 PADD OM TE 17 Supported tags by RSS Witeri a ER REAR ERAN EEN 17 Supported tags by RSS Reader jiiiiccciecscccetsccccctcecscceceedsccccessccacede cates caste ceeaeaceacdecs eaddets eccccaiecaccacesdsccadzdase 17 RSS 1 0 Experimental SUPPOME oiics eNeeuEugdee Eed Hee ce vensene thncuedendestoneasientuntacy EEN DEENEN 18 el Ad e Le EE 19 http www interaktonline com Page 2 lInterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Introduction MX RSS Reader Writer is a Dreamweaver MX extension that allows you to import read RSS files in your website and also to export write database information in RSS format This way you will be able to increase the traffic on your site by gathering and distributing your news in a very wise manner Therefore the export and import features of MX RSS Reader Writer are very useful for web content syndication for blogs or news sites The product has also experimental support for RSS 1 0 RDF for import For more information please check the Appendix further in this document This is a simple extension that includes two Commands a Server Behavior and an Advanced RSS Reader Recordse
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10. and converts it to ut f 8 in the page it doesn t change the value of the charset attribute as well So you have to do it manually or else your characters might not be displayed correctly For export writing if the PHP users have the MBSTRING module installed and they don t have to indicate a desired encoding MX RSS Reader Writer detects the encoding method used in the RSS file and converts it to UTFS8 Else if they don t have the MBSTRING module installed they should indicate the desired encoding iso 8859 1 iso 8859 2 etc For the ColdFusion and ASP users it is mandatory to specify the encoding which should be the same used for your database http www interaktonline com Page 6 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual z Concepts RSS Concept RSS is a Web content syndication format It stands for Really Simple Syndication and it s a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content The top element of the RSS document is lt rss gt This element has a required attribute called version that specifies the version of RSS that the document conforms to The lt rss gt element has a single lt channel gt sub element which contains information about the channel and its contents Among the sub elements of lt channel gt there are lt title gt lt link gt lt description gt lt copyright gt lt item gt and others The lt item gt sub element will actually display the n
11. dFusion development under Dreamweaver MX the configured Windows or Linux server share or ftp access a Dreamweaver MX site C When using a local ASP testing server running on Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed and you specify Using DSN on testing server when connecting to a database from Dreamweaver the connection fails To solve this problem download and install the Dreamweaver extension that resolves this issue from our site Fist read the technote http www interaktonline com Products Bundles MXKollection Technotes Details Database connection failst wi thtASP servers html id_ thn 72 D If you want to use the PHP_ADODB version of MX RSS Reader Writer please install the latest version of PHAKt E For import reading the MBSTRING module isn t required if the imported RSS is encoded using utf 8 or iso 8859 1 For other encodings please install MBSTRING Typographic Conventions The notations and text formats used in this tutorial are found below Recordset italic underlined font RSS Reader Recordset e Application button menu or panel bold font Button http www interaktonline com Page 4 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Accessing MX RSS Reader Writer Commands and Advanced Recordset To access the MX RSS Reader Writer commands you should go to the Insert panel gt InterAKT tab wiInsert Common Layout Forms Figure 1 Accessing the MX RSS Reader Wri
12. ews or articles and has lt title gt lt link gt lt description gt lt author gt lt pubDate gt and other sub elements Here s an example of a RSS file lt xml version 1 0 gt sss EISE Ee 2 E lt channel gt EE AE le e CIDMIEPA Membe igloos 28 elleseineiau AS lt title gt lt link gt http www interaktonline com blogs alexandru lt link gt lt description gt lt CDATA InterAKT Blogs alexandru lz lt description gt SEENEN EE gt lt pubDate gt Sun 5 Dec 2004 12 33 52 0200 lt pubDate gt lt lastBuildDate gt Sun 5 Dec 2004 12 33 52 0200 lt lastBuildDate gt lt docs gt http blogs law harvard edu tech rss lt docs gt lt ieem gt lt csl elles lt l CDATA Premature Optimization MySQL query cache i gt lt title gt lt link gt http www interaktonline com blogs alexandru index php view article i d_art 20 lt link gt lt description gt lt CDATA lt Ppriocay i relet like GComiiguicine Im my yout I soeme a Lot or time doing things called optimization This optimization drive I had was almost psychotic I was trying to optimize things so much and I was loosing the goal of the optimization in the first place lt P gt Elte een toylng CO Create a Sewijoe CO INGOLE MACO a Zeen I ena jee Chae HTML form then start coding the InterAKT tools were not born yet While writing things were popping into my head lt P gt lt UL gt http ww
13. his text field enter the email address of the author of the item e Publication Date in this text field enter the date on which the item was published e Category in this text field enter the category the items belongs to As this will be retrieved from the database different items can be included in different categories Source in this text field enter the RSS channel that the item came from Source URL in this text field enter the URL of the source L Note In the Items tab if instead of selecting a field dynamically you type values the same es value will be displayed for all items as a while loop is applied on the lt item gt tag The Inserted Server Behavior Once applied this command inserts the RSS Writer server behavior which allows you to edit all elements of the RSS Writer command interface http www interaktonline com Page 13 lInterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual RSS Reader Recordset Description The RSS Reader Recordset stores the items and other elements of the lt channel gt tag of the RSS These elements will be visible from the Bindings tab The RSS Reader Recordset is an advanced recordset that allows the reuse of any existing Server Behavior This means that we avoided re implementing the regular recordset related Server Behaviors repeat regions conditional regions alternate colors etc allowing you to keep the investment in your current extensions without having t
14. o pay again for those basic extensions The RSS Reader Recordset is inserted when applying the RSS Reader command It can also be applied from the Application panel gt Server Behaviors tab gt Plus gt InterAKT User Interface RSS Recordset xj Recordset Name rsR55 Connection rss_conn z Define Cancel URL http www interaktonline com blogs alexar Test Help Time Out e minutes ddi Figure 6 The RSS Reader Recordset User Interface User Interface Specifications The RSS Reader Recordset user interface has the following fields e Recordset Name in this text field enter the RSS recordset name The default name is rsRSS e Connection from this drop down select one of the database connections defined for the website You can also easily create a connection by clicking on the Define button In fact the recordset which is a fake recordset will not retrieve data from any database This drop down was included to overcome a Dreamweaver MX limitation regarding the way recordsets are defined they should always be linked to a database connection e URL in this text field you should enter the URL to the RSS file you want to import in your website By clicking on the corresponding Test button you will test if the URL is valid if it is an XML file and if it is a valid RSS e Time Out in this text field enter the frequency in minutes at which the cache will be refreshed The default value i
15. real advantage is that you will be able to use your own CSS file in order to integrate the output in your website design http www interaktonline com Page 10 lInterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual RSS Writer Command Description In order to write export data from your database in a RSS format you should apply the RSS Writer command This command allows you to set the elements of two tags lt channel gt and lt item gt For each of these tags there are some required elements that you should set in order to be able to apply the command The MX RSS Reader Writer extension will export data only in RSS format version 2 0 The data will be exported using the UTF8 encoding method Before applying this command it is required to create at least a recordset for the contents of the lt item gt tag It is not mandatory to retrieve the values of the lt channel gt elements from the database They can also be typed manually so there is not always need for a recordset for lt channel gt The RSS Writer command is accessible from the Insert Panel gt InterAKT tab User Interface The Channel tab Rss writer E Channel Item K Encoding iso 8859 1 Cancel Required Elements Title InterAKT News A Link http www interaktonline com Company New A Description This is the InterAKT Online news A Optional Elements Publication Date foi iz 2005 4h Copyright Copyright C 2000 2004 InterAKT Online 4
16. s 60 When testing the site it is better if you set the Time Out to 0 minute This way you will not have to wait until the cache refreshes and you will be able to test properly http www interaktonline com Page 14 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual RSS Writer Server Behavior Description This server behavior is inserted when applying the RSS Writer command It can also be applied from the Application panel gt Server Behaviors tab gt Plus gt InterAKT It has the same interface as the RSS Writer command therefore after applying this command it will be very easy to edit the lt channel gt and lt item gt tags elements For more information about this user interface please refer to the RSS Writer Command section in this manual http www interaktonline com Page 15 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Conclusions We hope that by reading this document you are convinced that when wanting to import RSS documents in your website or to export database information into RSS format MX RSS Reader Writer is the best solution Further Reading In order to see an example of how to use MX RSS Reader Writer please refer to the Getting Started with MX RSS Reader Writer tutorial http www interaktonline com Page 16 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Appendix Supported tags by RSS Writer e channel e Required elements e title e link
17. supported tags for RSS Reader please refer to the corresponding section further in this manual e Write export data in RSS format this means that you can retrieve information from your database and export it in RSS format For information about the supported tags for RSS Writer please refer to the corresponding section further in this manual http www interaktonline com Page 8 lInterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual RSS Reader Command Description In order to import a RSS in your website you should apply the RSS Reader command The RSS Reader command is accessible from the Insert Panel gt InterAKT tab User Interface RSS Reader Command xj Recordset Name rsR55 Connection rss_conn DI Define Cancel URL arkme com notifications dreamweaver xml Test Help Time Out 60 minutes Items Per Page 5 NavBar Images IV ddi Figure 3 The RSS Reader command user interface User Interface Specifications The user interface above contains the following fields Recordset Name in this text field enter the RSS recordset name The default name is rsRSS e Connection from this drop down select one of the database connections defined for the website You can also easily create a connection by clicking on the Define button In fact the recordset which is a fake recordset will not retrieve data from any database This drop down was included to overcome a Dreamweaver
18. t MX RSS Reader Writer is distributed in four versions for PHP ColdFusion and ASP developers using the PHP_MySQL PHAkt2 PHP_ADODB ColdFusion and ASP_VBScript server models http www interaktonline com Page 3 s InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual Prerequisites Requirements To use MX RSS Reader Writer you need to have the following software installed and properly configured Software Reference Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6 1 or http www macromedia com MX 2004 MX RSS Reader Writer http www interaktonline com Products Dreamweaver Extensions MXRSSReader Writer Overview Web server Microsoft Internet Information Server http www microsoft com Apache http www apache org ColdFusion http www coldfusion com Scripting language support with XML support http www php net or for PHP with the EXPAT XML library and MBSTRING module installed and with the php ini setting allow_url_fopen set on On http www interaktonline com Products Free Products PHAkt Try Download PHAkt http www microsoft com for ASP VBScript i or ASP VBScrip http www coldfusion com for ColdFusion A If you use the Dreamweaver PHP_MySQL or ColdFusion server models you won t need to install PHAKt2 B Please follow the install notes found in each installation kit to configure your workspace We assume that you have a correctly configured platform for PHP Col
19. ter Commands If you are using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and the Insert Panel is not configured to show the Commands as tabs they might be available in a slightly different way requiring you to select InterAKT tab as shown below File Edit view Insert Modify Text Common Layout Forms Text HTML PHP Application Flash elements Favorites ImpAkT2 NexTensio2 Show as Tabs igure 2 The MX 2004 InterAKT menu tory php Hc alRows_Breaq directory ph Se Noe The screen shots in this user manual are made when creating a site using the PHP_ADODB server model Supported RSS Versions For import reading MX RSS Reader Writer supports a sub set of tags for the 0 91 0 92 1 0 RDF and 2 0 versions of RSS For export writing MX RSS Reader Writer supports a sub set of of RSS 2 0 tags Encoding For import reading MX RSS Reader Writer detects the encoding method used in the RSS file and converts it to UTF8 Thus the RSS Reader Recordset data is encoded in UTF8 http www interaktonline com Page 5 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual AQ I After applying the RSS Reader command change the following line content text html lt meta http equiv Content Type charset iso 8859 1 gt to lt meta http equiv Content Type content text html charset utf 8 gt The default encoding in Dreamweaver is iso 8859 1 but after the RSS Reader comm
20. w interaktonline com Page 7 InterAKT Online MX RSS Reader Writer User Manual lt LI gt why do I have to write so much code for a simple form lt LI gt lt LI gt shouldn t I start to build a framework for it lt LI gt lt LI gt and how about security or form validation or dropdowns lt LI gt lt UL gt lt P gt In the end my original goal was lost the form didn t worked and I ended up with a skeleton of a framework for creating scripts for HTML forms of Someiciaime Noe OO GOOG ror my Olle Jos Seal I jelnimk Cals tel made us successful as a company nbsp more about it on this blog in the future lt P gt lt P gt lt IMG height 247 alt hspace 0 src blogs alexandru img mysql gif 0 779198637385586 width 345 border 0 gt lt P gt EE lt description gt lt pubDate gt Sun 5 Dec 2004 12 33 52 0200 lt pubDate gt lt guid gt http www interaktonline com blogs alexandru index php view article i d_art 20 lt guid gt lt author gt contact interaktonline com alexandru lt author gt lt category gt InterAKT lt category gt lt item gt lt channel gt lt rss gt MX RSS Reader Writer Concept MX RSS Reader Writer allows you to e Read import RSS this means that simply by entering the URL of the RSS you can import it in your website In the browser the output will be appealing and you can even integrate it in your design as a CSS file is used for display For information about the
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