There are lots of different ways that you can create content-managed areas in a Freeway site. WebYep and SNews come to mind, there are extensive (and inexpensive!) Actions available for the former, with lush and lavish documentation, which makes the integration with your layout very straightforward and Freeway-like.
Getting the RSS feed from this combined site (parts static, parts dynamic, parts PHPBB[1]) is a larger challenge. What you really need is a sort of sidecar application that can run on a schedule, check what’s new in the site, and publish an updated feed. I had a quick Google for this, and found a lot of likely possibilities, but in the end, it might be simplest to code this part yourself, as it will give you the finest-grained control over the precise elements that are listed, the amount of detail you show in your feed, etc.
And if you need to show an existing RSS feed within your Freeway page as HTML, there’s my ReadFeed Action available at ActionsForge to make that fairly straightforward.
So for a first step, do everything except the feed. Get everything set up and working so that the HTML is good, your customer is able to add and edit content to his or her wont, and leave the feed for the last. It is a technical exercise, after all.
When you have the site ready, post a link to it here, and I’ll show you how to write a recursive crawler in a couple dozen lines of code. It’s fun and instructive, and the best part is that you can make it precisely the way you want it, rather than using one of the many “content generators” that Google offers up when you query “convert HTML to RSS”. This whole market category appears to be where those god-awful domain squatter sites get their “pages”.
Walter
- I haven’t looked at it in several years, but PHPBB once held the record for the most-hacked server-side application in the Web world. Having it on your server was (and might still be) like rolling out the Welcome mat to any script-kiddy who wanted to root your server and take down all the other sites hosted on it. (Not just the ones you know about, but the hundreds or thousands of other sites typically configured on a single shared Apache server.)
On Dec 4, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Cory Fairchild wrote:
I forgot to mention that the WoD feed created by the previous web guy simply scans the PhPBB databased for the first post in the last several threads chronologically and displays it. Perhaps there is some way to do something similar integrated on a freeway page so I could just make a rss?
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