Display Recent Entries on external page

[spackler]

I noticed the code (shown below) in another post that allows the display of the last x number of entries to be shown on a page outside the actual blog's directory. I'd like to do this as well but without the entry text - only the title (with link) and date as it shows up in the recent entries plugin within the blog.

In the post http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php ... &highlight

Garvin gave the following code which works great.

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<?php 
chdir('serendipity'); // Or change this to the name of the directory where you installed s9y in! 

# Include the s9y framework 
include 'serendipity_config.inc.php'; 

# Initialize Template logic 
serendipity_smarty_init(); 

# Fetch latest entries 
$entries = serendipity_fetchEntries(); 

# Parses the latest entries 
serendipity_printEntries($entries); 

# Displays the latest entries template 
$serendipity['smarty']->display(serendipity_getTemplateFile('entries.tpl', 'serendipityPath')); 
chdir('..'); 
?> 

but what I'd like to do is only show the entries in the same format as the Recent Entries show up within the blog. Something like

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 $entries=serendipity_printRecentEntries... 

Is this possible? I've tried the javascript one and it works but it is not as elegant looking.

Thanks.

[Allstar]

Can you not adjust the XML output for your board in the configuration area and then feed that into a aggregator or layout program at the desired destination

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You can simply copy the "entries.tpl" file to "myentries.tpl" and there remove all references to the $entry.body stuff etc. Then it will look exactly like you want.

Best regards,
Garvin

[spackler]

I modified entries_summmary.tpl and it worked pretty well.

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{serendipity_hookPlugin hook="entries_header"}


<div class="serendipity_entry">
    <ul>
    {foreach from=$entries item="entries"}
        {foreach from=$entries.entries item="entry"}
            <li><a href="{$entry.link}">{$entry.title}</a>
                <br />{$CONST.ON} {$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY}</li>
        {/foreach}
    {/foreach}
    </ul>
</div>
<div class='serendipity_entryFooter' style="text-align: center">
{serendipity_hookPlugin hook="entries_footer"}</div>

One question - is this going to display all my entries or does it cut them off at the 5 or 6 most recent?

Thanks.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It will display as many entries as you've configured your s9y to show for the startpage (default 15 entries). If you want to show all entries, you need to specify a parameter to the fetchEntries() function in your PHP code.

Best regards,
Garvin