2 entry columns

[ormus7577]

Hi.

Would it be possible to create a template that has 2 columns for entries, split by tag/category? Like a news column and a software column (plus a sidebar).

When an entry is clicked, the extended entry will fill both those columns.

On a side note: I've noticed, that the current remote rss plugin can't handle feedburner feeds that have been processed by feedburner's smartfeed functionality. Those feeds are valid though. I'm currently adding the option to use smartpie instead of onyx for parsing...

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Column wrapping cannot be done with current CSS in current browsers. So you need to manually split your columns, or make it based on the length of the entry, which might look odd.

On a side note: I've noticed, that the current remote rss plugin can't handle feedburner feeds that have been processed by feedburner's smartfeed functionality. Those feeds are valid though. I'm currently adding the option to use smartpie instead of onyx for parsing...

Provide Details, please. What does not work, which feed do you try.

Regards,
Garvin

[ormus7577]

Column wrapping cannot be done with current CSS in current browsers. So you need to manually split your columns, or make it based on the length of the entry, which might look odd.

Hi Garvin,

I don't need the columns to wrap (or I don't get what you are trying to tell me ):

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col1           |   col2             | sidebar
news           |   other entries    | plugins

Provide Details, please. What does not work, which feed do you try.

Installation: http://www.pokerblogwelt.de/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pokerblogweltblogriver

If I turn off smartfeed in Feedburner, then the lastest entries will be displayed in the sidebar. The page source claims, that the .dat file couldn't be written. But that's a wrong error message, the file is just 0 bytes, cause the rss can't be parsed. I've already tried the same feed with smartpie and managed to parse the items.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Ah, okay. Yes, you can do that kind of column wrapping in a blog. But it involves getting accustomed with Smarty templating. I'm sure you'll be able to achieve it after reading my upcoming book

Installation: http://www.pokerblogwelt.de/
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pokerblogweltblogriver

That Feed URL is not a feed, it's actually HTML sourcecode. So it cannot be parsed by the RSS reader, cause ther's no RSS to be parsed.

Regards,
Garvin

[ormus7577]

Ah, okay. Yes, you can do that kind of column wrapping in a blog. But it involves getting accustomed with Smarty templating. I'm sure you'll be able to achieve it after reading my upcoming book

Looking forward to it...

That Feed URL is not a feed, it's actually HTML sourcecode. So it cannot be parsed by the RSS reader, cause ther's no RSS to be parsed.

Are you sure about that? Looking at the source of the feed gives me:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gr="http://www.google.com/schemas/reader/atom/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><!--
Content-type: Preventing XSRF in IE.

--><generator uri="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</generator><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/15818982242452307674/label/Pokerblogwelt.de</id><title>"Pokerblogwelt.de" via Christian in Google Reader</title><gr:continuation>CIPsh_uN0Y8C</gr:continuation><author><name>Christian</name></author><updated>2007-11-19T22:21:13Z</updated><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/pokerblogweltblogriver" type="application/atom+xml" /><entry gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1195510873375"><id gr:original-id="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1078262264795791910.post-7032471360341425543">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/61d0ac0b27b58f17</id><category term="Turniere" scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" /><title type="html">Online Poker League, 3te Runde</title><published>2007-11-19T22:14:00Z</published><updated>2007-11-19T22:17:19Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pokerblogweltblogriver/~3/187385250/online-poker-league-3te-runde.html" type="text/html" /><content xml:base="http://fismopoker.blogspot.com/" type="html">Naja, was soll ich sagen, voller Freude und Motivation meinen 2ten Platz in der Gesamtwertung auszubauen verliere ich gleich alle meine Chips in einer der ersten Hände  nachdem ein Typ meine KK bis zum River durchgecallt hat und sein AJ dann am River auch noch mit einem As belohnt wird obwohl er vorher gar nichts traf. Dann eben nächste Runde!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pokerblogweltblogriver/~4/187385250" height="1" width="1"/></content><author>...

Looks like xml/atom to me. And smartpie can parse the very same feed into items (tried it at a local installation)...

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

No, that's not what I get!

I get:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">"Pokerblogwelt.de" via Christian in Google Reader - powered by FeedBurner</title>
<link href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/lib/stylesheets/undohtml.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/feed-styles/bf30.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title=""Pokerblogwelt.de" via Christian in Google Reader" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/pokerblogweltblogriver">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/feed-styles/bf30.js"></script>
</head>
<body id="browserfriendly" onload="jsFeedUrl='http://feeds.feedburner.com/pokerblogweltblogriver';loadSubscribeAreaUltra('standard');go_decoding()">
<div id="cometestme" style="display:none;">&</div>
<div id="bodycontainer">
<div id="bannerblock">
<h1>"Pokerblogwelt.de" via Christian in Google Reader</h1>

<h2>syndicated content powered by FeedBurner</h2>
<p style="clear:both"></p>
</div>
<div id="bodyblock">
<div id="subscribenow" class="subscribeblock action">
<div id="subscribe-userchoice" style="display:none">
<p id="subscribeLink">
<a href="#">...</a>
</p>
<p id="resetLink">Reset this favorite; <a href="#" onclick="return clearUserchoice('standard')">show all Subscribe options</a>
</p>

[ormus7577]

Ahhh, I think that is part of the problem! That smartfeed thing by feedburner probably adjusted the delivered data depending on the reader used to request it. I've copied 'my' version from the firefox feed preview, did you use some feedreader? But I've saved 'my' version to a file, put it into a local test installation and the plugin still failed to parse it...

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Okay, I just used the firefox view source. I just fetched it with wget, and now see something different. But the output is Atom format, not RSS format. The sidebar plugin can only deal with RSS feeds, not atom ones.

Regards,
Garvin

[ormus7577]

smartfeed = evil