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Sun Jan 23 09:35:07 EST 2005

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Updated documentation

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  <li>Introduced an "Article Directory", providing an overview of all past
      articles, sorted by year and month.</li>
+ <li>New syndication framework so that Geeklog can now <strong>read and
+     write</strong> feeds in different formats (currently supported: RSS, RDF,
+     and Atom), provided by Michael Jervis.</li>
  </ul>

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  		<ol>
  			<li>A web server running PHP 4.1.0 or higher 
! 			<li>A web server running MySQL, with access to a database or the ability to create a database 
  			<li>The ability to create a new database in MySQL or access to an existing one 
  			<li>A telnet or SSH connection to your web server (although FTP will work). This document will be written assuming you have command line access to your server, but we will note the major differences for FTP users. 
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  			<li>A web server running PHP 4.1.0 or higher 
! 			<li>A web server running MySQL 3.23.2 or higher, with access to a database or the ability to create a database 
  			<li>The ability to create a new database in MySQL or access to an existing one 
  			<li>A telnet or SSH connection to your web server (although FTP will work). This document will be written assuming you have command line access to your server, but we will note the major differences for FTP users. 

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  <li><a href="#links">Links Settings</a></li>
  <li><a href="#image">Image Settings</a></li>
! <li><a href="#rdf">RSS/RDF Feed Settings</a></li>
  <li><a href="#content">Content Control Settings</a></li>
  <li><a href="#url-rewrite">URL Rewriting</a></li>
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  <li><a href="#links">Links Settings</a></li>
  <li><a href="#image">Image Settings</a></li>
! <li><a href="#rdf">Syndication Settings</a></li>
  <li><a href="#content">Content Control Settings</a></li>
  <li><a href="#url-rewrite">URL Rewriting</a></li>
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! <h3><a name="rdf">RSS/RDF Feed Settings</a></h3>

! <p>Geeklog can export its headlines to a so-called RSS feed (also known as an RDF feed). This will let you share your news with other sites (Hint: Create a Portal block from Geeklog's Block menu to import RSS/RDF news feeds from other sites).</p>

! <p>Starting with Geeklog 1.3.9, RSS feeds can be created and configured from
  Geeklog's Admin menu ("Content Syndication"). The following settings will only
  be used as the default settings for any new feeds that you create from the
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! <h3><a name="rdf">Syndication Settings</a></h3>

! <p>Geeklog can export its headlines to a news feed in various formats (RSS, RDF, and Atom). This will let you share your news with other sites (Hint: Create a Portal block from Geeklog's Block menu to import news feeds from other sites).</p>

! <p>Starting with Geeklog 1.3.9, feeds can be created and configured from
  Geeklog's Admin menu ("Content Syndication"). The following settings will only
  be used as the default settings for any new feeds that you create from the
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  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_backend">backend</a></td>
      <td valign="top">1</td>
!     <td valign="top">Create an RSS/RDF file for the stories in rdf_file (0=no, 1=yes)</td></tr>
  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_file">rdf_file</a></td>
      <td valign="top">HTML path with "/backend/geeklog.rdf" suffix</td>
!     <td valign="top">File system path for the RDF file. This file allows you to share your site's headlines with others</td></tr>
  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_language">rdf_language</a></td>
      <td valign="top">en-gb</td>
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  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_backend">backend</a></td>
      <td valign="top">1</td>
!     <td valign="top">Create a feed file for the stories in rdf_file (0=no, 1=yes)</td></tr>
  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_file">rdf_file</a></td>
      <td valign="top">HTML path with "/backend/geeklog.rdf" suffix</td>
!     <td valign="top">File system path for the feed file. This file allows you to share your site's headlines with others</td></tr>
  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_language">rdf_language</a></td>
      <td valign="top">en-gb</td>
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  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_limit">rdf_limit</a></td>
      <td valign="top">10</td>
!     <td valign="top">Limit the number of stories in the RSS feed. If the value for this setting is a number, the feed will hold this many stories. If the number is followed by a lower-case 'h' (e.g. 24h) it denotes the number of hours from which to chose the stories.</td></tr>
  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_storytext">rdf_storytext</a></td>
      <td valign="top">0</td>
!     <td valign="top">If this value is 1, then the entire introtext of the stories will be included in the RSS feed. Any number greater than one limits the introtext to that many characters (e.g. a value of 80 would only include the first 80 characters from the introtext in the feed). If set to 0, the introtext is not included in the feed.</td></tr>
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  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_limit">rdf_limit</a></td>
      <td valign="top">10</td>
!     <td valign="top">Limit the number of stories to export to the news feed. If the value for this setting is a number, the feed will hold this many stories. If the number is followed by a lower-case 'h' (e.g. 24h) it denotes the number of hours from which to chose the stories.</td></tr>
  <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_rdf_storytext">rdf_storytext</a></td>
      <td valign="top">0</td>
!     <td valign="top">If this value is 1, then the entire introtext of the stories will be included in the news feed. Any number greater than 1 limits the introtext to that many characters (e.g. a value of 80 would only include the first 80 characters from the introtext in the feed). If set to 0, the introtext is not included in the feed.</td></tr>
! <tr><td valign="top"><a name="desc_syndication_max_headlines">syndication_max_headlines</a></td>
!     <td valign="top">0</td>
!     <td valign="top">Upper limit for the max. number of headlines when <em>importing</em> a feed (into a portal block). The limit can also be set for each individual portal block in the block menu.<br>
!     When set to 0, all headlines are imported.</td></tr>
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  <ul>
  <li>New directories <tt>trackback</tt> and <tt>admin/trackback</tt> containing
! several new template files have been added for the trackback support.</li>
! <li>New variables <code>{send_trackback_link}</code>, <code>{send_trackback_url}</code>, and <code>{lang_send_trackback_text}</code> are available in the story and article template files. They provide a complete link as well as the URL and link text allowing you to send a trackback comment for the current story.</li>
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  <li>New directories <tt>trackback</tt> and <tt>admin/trackback</tt> containing
!     several new template files have been added for the trackback support.</li>
! <li>New variables <code>{send_trackback_link}</code>,
!     <code>{send_trackback_url}</code>, and
!     <code>{lang_send_trackback_text}</code> are available in the story and
!     article template files. They provide a complete link as well as the URL and
!     link text allowing you to send a trackback comment for the current
!     story.</li>
! <li>The <tt>admin/block/blockeditor.thtml</tt> template has a new input field
!     to limit the number of headlines to import into a portal block. New
!     variables: <code>{lang_rdflimit}</code>, <code>{block_rdflimit}</code>.</li>
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+ - Incorporated the new syndication framework for reading and writing feeds of
+   different formats (RSS, RDF, Atom), provided by Michael Jervis (patch #352).
+   Please note that the feed writer classes, system/classes/*.feed.class.php,
+   are now obsolete and can be removed.
+   This also addresses Task #19 ("RSS import class") and Feature Request #67
+   ("Limiting number of entries in RSS feeds").
+ - Story, event, and link submissions are now also checked for spam [Dirk]
  - Added support for sending and receiving trackback comments (Feature Request
    #34) [Dirk]