Clean feed URLs in Textpattern
27 November 2004 @ really damn late | Comments (9)
14 March 2005 – There appear to be unresolvable problems with this from 1.0RC3 onward. More details available in this discussion.
05 January 2005 – Changed alphanumeric regular expression check syntax, as it wasn’t functioning properly with the \w shorthand. Now regex works as it should.
I’ve been playing around with an attempt to create a non-hack method to accomplishing clean feed URLs in Textpattern, and I think I’m getting close. I really liked the method thought-up by mary in the Textpattern forum thread, Quick ‘n Easy Clean Feed Urls and was a bit inspired to solve the challenge presented by making it work for all types of feed requests.
This modification exists as a single file. It should be downloaded and renamed to ‘atom’ or ‘rss’, and reside in your desired directory with all of your other extensionless files. No modifications are needed to the file.
There are only a two small weaknesses that I can think of with this current version. First, it makes 1-2 additional database queries than the rss.php and atom.php if you’re requesting a section and a category. Second, it’ll become confused if you’re using categories and sections of the same name (something you really should avoid anyways).
So here are several example URLs:
http://domain.foo/rss/http://domain.foo/rss/999/(limit of 999 articles)http://domain.foo/atom/link/5/(limit of 5 links)http://domain.foo/atom/photo/50/(section ‘photo’ limit of 50)
I expect there to be some minor bugs and tweaks, but since this is totally running on existing Textpattern code, it should be totally safe. I’m sure there is some cruft in there that can be trimmed or optimized, but for now it is what it is. Please let me know your thoughts or if you see improvements that can be made.
random/txp/clean-feed-url.php.txt does not exist.
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