News reader module, simple plugin example

Hello,

http://fatty.dk/acnewsreader.zip

This is a demonstration plugin to, hopefully, help people getting started coding plugins for aC (it's quite simple, once you figure out the framework which resembles Cake+smarty quite a bit). This plugin will create a new tab in the menu called News with RSS feeds. It uses an external helper, SimplePie, to parse the RSS feeds.

This is very handy to display news from various sources (be it your corporate blog, an e-mail inbox feed (using for instance imap2rss http://www.noaxs.net/imap2rss/) or any other media that you and your co workers should stay up to date on.

Future improvements could be:

* AJAX interface to read the actual posts in aC (click-expand table)
* User defined feeds vs. static admin chosen feeds
* Create ticket / discussion / task based on feed (useful for support@company.com or bugs@company.com)
* Integration with dashboard?

Enjoy, improve and share!

Hi Ilija,

Sure, no problem. It's a very simple module, could use some improvements / the features I described above - but you know, too many ideas too little time. But for now it does what it's supposed to here, display an RSS feed of our internal news system, RSS of a Google News search, some external feeds etc.

Really looking forward to the documentation - tho I think I've figured much of it out myself by now. Hopefully we'll see more stuff 3rd party modules then.

Happy new year to you too!

Also

INSERT INTO modules values ( 'news' , 0 , 100 );

should be:

INSERT INTO acx_modules values ( 'news' , 0 , 100 );

Noticed that the last poster "seems to have it working now". So this question is to all... I would still like to know where the module "create(s) a new tab in the menu called News with RSS feeds". I am sure the module is installed but I can find nary a trace of its presentation in any AC1.0 page.

Hi! Loved your module.
But i see name of only first feed i added.
Every next feed is number instead of name. How to fix it?