RSS feed for Eventlist (PHP - Joomla 1.5 - Eventlist 1.1 )

This is an easy script that creates an Eventlist rss feed.

No installation needed, just copy it in to main joomla directory.

<?php
// rss feed for eventlist 1.1 by SBZ systems - Solon Zenetzis
// https://www.sbzsystems.com

/* Initialize Joomla framework */
define( '_JEXEC', 1 );
define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) );
define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );
/* Required Files */
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );
require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );
/* To use Joomla's Database Class */
//require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'libraries'.DS.'joomla'.DS.'factory.php' );
/* Create the Application */
$config = new JConfig();

$offset= $config->offset;
$host = $config->host;
$user = $config->user;
$password = $config->password;
$db = $config->db;
$dbprefix = $config->dbprefix;
$sitename = $config->sitename;
$MetaDesc = $config->MetaDesc;
$url =$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];



////////////// SETTINGS
$limit_results=100;
$limit_words=30;
$logo='/images/stories/logo.jpg';
///////////////////////



//open database
$link=mysql_connect("$host", $user, $password) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("$db") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$link);


$query ='
SELECT '.$dbprefix.'menu.id AS itemid, '.$dbprefix.'menu.name, title, datdescription, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.id, '.$dbprefix.'menu.parent, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.created
FROM '.$dbprefix.'menu, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_cats_event_relations
WHERE '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_cats_event_relations.itemid = '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.id
AND '.$dbprefix.'menu.link LIKE CONCAT( \'%id=\', '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_cats_event_relations.catid )
AND '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.published =1
ORDER BY created DESC limit '.$limit_results;


$data = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());



//////////////////////
$rssfeed = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<channel>
<title>'.$sitename.'</title>
<link>http://'.$url.'</link>
<description>'.$MetaDesc .'</description>
<image>
<title>'.$sitename.'</title>
<url>http://'.$url.$logo.'</url>
<link>http://'.$url.'</link>
</image>';





while($allcats = mysql_fetch_array($data)) {


extract($allcats);


if (date('Y', $created)<2000) {
$created=date('r');
} else {
$created=date('r',$created);
}

$maintext=cleantext($datdescription,$limit_words);
if ($maintext) { $maintext=$maintext.'...<br><br>'; }

$rssfeed .='
<item>
<title>'.cleantext($title,0).'</title>
<link>http://'.$url .'/index.php?option=com_eventlist&amp;view=details&amp;id='.$id.'&amp;Itemid='.$itemid.'</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://'.$url .'/index.php?option=com_eventlist&amp;view=details&amp;id='.$id.'&amp;Itemid='.$itemid.'</guid>
<description><![CDATA['.$maintext.'('.$name.')]]></description>
<pubDate>'.$created.'</pubDate>


</item>
';
//&amp;Itemid=56

}

$rssfeed .= '</channel>
</rss>';

echo $rssfeed;




///clean text from html tags
function cleantext($n,$c){
//keep image
if ($c>0) {
preg_match_all('/<img[^>]+>/i',$n, $image);
}
//clean html
$n=strip_tags($n);
$n=str_replace('&','&amp;',($n));
//count words
if ($c>0) {
for ($i = 0; $i <= strlen( $n); $i++) {
if (substr($n,$i,1) == ' ') {
$keno++;
if ($keno>$c) {
break;
}
}
}
$n=$image[0][0].substr($n,0,$i);
}
return $n;
}



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<?php

// rss feed for eventlist 1.1 by SBZ systems - Solon Zenetzis

// https://www.sbzsystems.com

/* Initialize Joomla framework */

define( '_JEXEC', 1 );

define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) );

define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR );

/* Required Files */

require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' );

require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' );

/* To use Joomla's Database Class */

//require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'libraries'.DS.'joomla'.DS.'factory.php' );

/* Create the Application */

$config = new JConfig();

$offset= $config->offset;

$host = $config->host;

$user = $config->user;

$password = $config->password;

$db = $config->db;

$dbprefix = $config->dbprefix;

$sitename = $config->sitename;

$MetaDesc = $config->MetaDesc;

$url =$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

////////////// SETTINGS

$limit_results=100;

$limit_words=30;

$logo='/images/stories/logo.jpg';

///////////////////////

//open database

$link=mysql_connect("$host", $user, $password) or die(mysql_error());

mysql_select_db("$db") or die(mysql_error());

mysql_set_charset('utf8',$link);

$query ='

SELECT '.$dbprefix.'menu.id AS itemid, '.$dbprefix.'menu.name, title, datdescription, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.id, '.$dbprefix.'menu.parent, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.created

FROM '.$dbprefix.'menu, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events, '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_cats_event_relations

WHERE '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_cats_event_relations.itemid = '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.id

AND '.$dbprefix.'menu.link LIKE CONCAT( \'%id=\', '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_cats_event_relations.catid )

AND '.$dbprefix.'eventlist_events.published =1

ORDER BY created DESC limit '.$limit_results;

$data = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

//////////////////////

$rssfeed = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<title>'.$sitename.'</title>

<description>'.$MetaDesc .'</description>

<image>

<title>'.$sitename.'</title>

</image>';

while($allcats = mysql_fetch_array($data)) {

extract($allcats);

if (date('Y', $created)<2000) {

$created=date('r');

} else {

$created=date('r',$created);

}

$maintext=cleantext($datdescription,$limit_words);

if ($maintext) { $maintext=$maintext.'...<br><br>'; }

$rssfeed .='

<item>

<title>'.cleantext($title,0).'</title>

<guid isPermaLink="false">http://'.$url .'/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=details&id='.$id.'&Itemid='.$itemid.'</guid>

<pubDate>'.$created.'</pubDate>

</item>

//&Itemid=56

}

$rssfeed .= '</channel>

</rss>';

echo $rssfeed;

///clean text from html tags

function cleantext($n,$c){

//keep image

if ($c>0) {

preg_match_all('/<img[^>]+>/i',$n, $image);

}

//clean html

$n=strip_tags($n);

$n=str_replace('&','&',($n));

//count words

if ($c>0) {

for ($i = 0; $i <= strlen( $n); $i++) {

if (substr($n,$i,1) == ' ') {

$keno++;

if ($keno>$c) {

break;

}

$n=$image[0][0].substr($n,0,$i);

}

return $n;

}

There are 3 variables you can change:

$limit_results=the number of events
$limit_words=the number of words of each event
$logo=the logo jpg file

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