Displaying drupal aggregation feed summaries in a block
posted by phil on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 09:36
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I wanted to display a summary of recent items from a data feed in a block, using the titles as links to view the entire article. After evaluating different ways of grabbing feeds, I decided on the Aggregation module, because it offered most of the features I needed, with the least aggregation <g>. But it didn't have the block feature I wanted, so I built my own module to do so, called Aggregation Block.
It's pretty simple; there is an admin page that looks for any feeds you've added, and allows you to expose it as a block. You can add a custom title, and limit the number of items displayed. Nothing fancy, just does the job.
You can see it on my Electronovelty site, which I use it to pull in Drupal articles from Glatzland.
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why not use news aggregator?
I just found this...have been trying to get news aggregator and custom view to do what I want...did you consider that approach and reject it? I just don't see why I need to install some module from 2007 to enable your module to work...
Yes, that works too, but I
Yes, that works too, but I wanted to use the Aggregator module, which has some other cool features. It was missing the block part.