New RSS Feed

[R. Andrew Lamonica]

As you can see, I have added the new CS Department RSS feed to the headlines section of this page. If any CAOS officer disapproves of this change then let me know and I will take it down ASAP.

For those of you who are interested, the RSS 2.0 feed URL is:
http://www.cs.siue.edu/news/rss.aspx

The new news page is:
http://www.cs.siue.edu/news/

R. Andrew Lamonica
SIUE Dept. of Computer Science

[Peter Motyka]

Nice work Andrew!

[Ross Mead]

Yeah, very cool!  Nice job! :-)

[Stiffler]

That is really nice. :) Although, I think CS News should be above Slashdot and Wired news. Hmm ... Or maybe even above Recent forum topics? Just a thought.

[Ross Mead]

Yeah, we discussed putting the CS News above Slashdot and Wired, but it doesn't get updated nearly as much as either of those pages (though we hope that someday that might change! :-) ).  This could be a simple poll question:

What do you think about the CS News feed?
- I like it.
- I don't like it.
- I'd like it if it were updated more.
- It needs to be above Slashdot and Wired news.
- It should stay where it's at.
- There's a CS News webpage? :-P

Ehh, just a thought...  what do you guys think?

[R. Andrew Lamonica]

I have replaced the old XOOPS RSS headlines template with one of my own devising.  I don't know Smarty so I had to use PHP in the template, but it seems to work and I chose variable names that should not conflict with anything.

This should help solve the problem of where to put the CS headlines.  

OLD

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<{foreach item=feed from=$block.feeds}>

<{$feed}>

<{/foreach}>[/size]

NEW

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<{php}>
    $andrew_lamonica_feed_count = 0;
<{/php}>

   
        <{foreach item=feed from=$block.feeds}>      
           
            <{php}>
                if($andrew_lamonica_feed_count % 2)
                    print "";
                $andrew_lamonica_feed_count++;    
            <{/php}>
        <{/foreach}>
        <{php}>
            while($andrew_lamonica_feed_count % 2)
            {
                print "";
                $andrew_lamonica_feed_count++;    
            }
        <{/php}>
   

<{$feed}>

[/size]