Extension:RSS

Displays an RSS feed on a wiki page.

Installation
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 * 1) Download the files into
 * 2) Place the following text in your LocalSettings.php file: require_once("$IP/extensions/RSS/RSS.php");
 * 1) Installation can now be verified through your wiki's Special:Version

Usage
Use one section between -tags for each feed. The rss section may contain parameters separated by a pipe ("|"), just like links and templates. These parameters are supported:

This extension supports filtering-out (i.e. ) items based on title when in short list mode. It only displays unique titles.

Example
 http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot|charset=UTF-8|short|date|max=5 

Configuration settings

 * $wgRSSCache &mdash; use cache? Defaults to.
 * $wgRSSCacheAge &mdash; defaults to 60 * 60 (one hour).
 * $wgRSSCacheFreshOnly &mdash; defaults to.
 * $wgRSSCacheDirectory &mdash; where to store cached data if cache is enabled? Defaults to.
 * $wgRSSFetchTimeout &mdash; read timeout for Snoopy in seconds. Defaults to 5.
 * $wgRSSOutputEncoding &mdash; defaults to.
 * $wgRSSInputEncoding &mdash; defaults to null.
 * $wgRSSDetectEncoding &mdash; Defaults to.
 * $wgRSSUseGzip &mdash; use gzip encoding to fetch RSS files if supported? Defaults to.

Technical history
RSS extension is a modified version of
 * the RSS engine from Mafs, which is a modified version of
 * the RSS engine from Rdb78, which is a modified version of
 * the RSS engine from Duesentrieb, which is a modified version of
 * the RSS-feed extension by Mutante.

Change Log

 * original by mutante 25.03.2005
 * extended by Duesentrieb 30.04.2005
 * extended by Rdb78 07.07.2005
 * extended by Mafs 10.07.2005, 24.07.2005
 * extended by Niffler 28.02.2006
 * modified by Dzag 07.2006
 * modified by Alxndr 09.2006
 * modified by Svanslyck 02.2008, replacing all « and » with "
 * This has been updated to work better on newer (1.9) MediaWiki software, with the help of User:Duesentrieb. --CryptoQuick 14:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This appears not to be true; I have received numerous emails about it not working with 1.9+. I would love to help debug and fix the extension, but my host has not upgraded to PHP 5 and I'm thus stuck at MediaWiki 1.6.8, so that's as far as this is guaranteed to work properly. If anyone develops a fix, please post a link to it here! &#x2014;Alxndr&#x00a0;(t) 02:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I just found this fork that purports to have a fix for the new loss of wfStrEncode. I can't test it though so can anyone else verify that it works? &#x2014;Alxndr&#x00a0;(t) 02:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * modified by --Wikinaut 11:17, 7 May 2008 (UTC) : changed method to disable chaching; Extension is now compatible to MediaWiki 1.12
 * modified by Cmreigrut 19:05, 19 November 2008 (UTC): added date (if specified) to short output
 * modified by Peter Newman: 03:15, 7 October 2009 (UTC) Added htmlspecialchars escaping to the displayed strings
 * modified by K001 15:15, 26 January 2010 (UTC): version 1.6, added support for date formats

Version 1.7
2010-7-23


 * Cleaned up, included MagpieRSS library and put onto the WMF subversion repository by Jeroen De Dauw
 * i18n file added by TranslateWiki.net people

Version 1.8
2010-10-19


 * Removed dependencies on [Snoopy http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/] in favor of MediaWiki's internal HttpRequest and removed [MagpieRSS http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/] (perhaps to be replaced later with [SimplePie http://simplepie.org/]) because of concerns about MagpieRSS's security problems and lack of maintenance.
 * Added ability to do more with the layout of RSS feeds.