ATutor

Announcements feeds

• otto
  

  2005-07-24 03:47:38

  Announcements feeds

  I think it is not very easy for an instructor or student to guess the actual rss feed URL of the course they are involved.
  The ..../get_rss.php?x-x changes from the id of the course and I couldn't guess the second number origin
  I suggest to place a classic XML icon besides the Announcements header with the path to the get_rss.php and dynamically change the appropiated values to ease the import of the channel to the feed readers.
  I consider this feature of the rss in Atutor very valuable and is not very well documented.

• greg
  

  2005-07-24 10:09:16

  add XML to template

  Agreed, RSS feeds need to be more obvious.
  
  For now you could add them into the themes/default/index.tmpl.php file with something like the following:
  
  <?php
  global $system_courses;
  if ($system_courses[$_SESSION['course_id']]['rss']): ?>
  <a href="<?php echo $this->base_path; ?>get_rss.php?<?php echo $_SESSION['course_id']; ?>-2" >RSS2</a>
  <a href="<?php echo $this->base_path; ?>get_rss.php?<?php echo $_SESSION['course_id']; ?>-1" />RSS1</a>
  <?php endif; ?>