Ryan's Blog site and RSS issues

[benbyf]

Hi!

Implemented Ryan's blog template to kickstart a site I was making for my own business and can't get to grips with the Abstraction of the RSS feed in it.

site: blog.eulergy.com/

rss: http://blog.eulergy.com/categories/resources/rss

notice that the dates are running in the wrong order old to new and not newest first. Anyone able to illustrate how one might change that in the blog template?

Thanks,

[benbyf]

think this is the rss section in the blog.inc

/**
 * Render an RSS feed
 *
 * Note that you should not output anything further after calling this, as it outputs the RSS directly.
 *
 * @param PageArray $items Pages to include in the feed
 * @param string $title Title of the feed. If not provided, pulled from current page.
 * @param string $description Description of the feed. If not provided, pulled from current page.
 *
 */
function renderRSS(PageArray $items, $title = '', $description = '') {

	$page = wire('page');
	if(empty($title)) $title = $page->get('headline|title') . ' - ' . wire('pages')->get('/')->headline;
	if(empty($description)) $description = $page->get('summary|meta_description');

	$rss = wire('modules')->get('MarkupRSS');
	$rss->title = $title;
	$rss->description = $description;
	$rss->itemDateField = 'date';
	$rss->render($items);
}

[Martijn Geerts]

The order is the order of your pagearray, not what is in the module. The item date is only for the pubdate subitem of item.

Offtopic: For w3c recommendation it's better if ryan had chosen for date(DATE_RSS).

[benbyf]

how would i implement the change sorry?

[Martijn Geerts]

You've to sort $items in the find call

[benbyf]

Still cant make this happen. Any help? Literally what needs changing? Thanks

[Martijn Geerts]

What is the find call to find pages in the RSS ?

[benbyf]

$posts = wire('pages')->find("template=post, sort=-date, $selector");

but im not sure if the renderRSS function uses the $posts available in blog.inc - I love the ease of use ryan's blog theme, but its totally obfuscated compared how i would normally template.

[benbyf]

think it might be an issue with the markupRSS.module in wire/modules as there doesnt seem to be any sorting (PW2.2):

/**
	 * Render the feed and return it
	 *
	 */
	public function renderFeed(PageArray $feedPages = null) {

		if(!is_null($feedPages)) $this->feedPages = $feedPages;

		$out = $this->renderHeader();

		foreach($this->feedPages as $page) {
			if(!$page->viewable()) continue;
			$out .= $this->renderItem($page);
                }

                $out .= "</channel>\n</rss>\n";

		return $out; 
	}

[Martijn Geerts]

There is no sorting in that module, it just handles the Pagearray as it is. Sort on date doesn't exists if you don't have a Datetime field called date.

if you want to sort on date created it's:

$posts = wire('pages')->find("template=post, sort=-created, $selector");

 if you want to sort on date modified it's:

$posts = wire('pages')->find("template=post, sort=-modified, $selector");

if you want to sort on a date field it's: (thats is what you've done now)

$posts = wire('pages')->find("template=post, sort=-nameofdatefield, $selector");

 

[benbyf]

Mart, thanks!

I spent ages trying to find where renderRSS is being used in the template and finally tracked it down to the category.php file which is where the $posts is being defined. It's now sorted by date created and therefore showing on the main site in order (eulergy.com)