Module to collect news from other sites ? - Edit: Add RSS to Blog Compoment

[ROUBOS]

Hi,
I was reading the Linux inside magazine, and there was an article on Drupal. I noticed that there is a Module "Aggregator", that collects news from other sites and displays them on your own site.
Is there a similar module for Elxis? Is this possible?

thanks

[wbread]

newsfeeds
collect rss news from other site

[ROUBOS]

and do they get displayed in the form of full content? Pictures and all?

[ks-net]

and do they get displayed in the form of full content? Pictures and all?

yes there is => module ...  UCD

[ROUBOS]

so UCD the Ultimate Content Display will display news from RSS? will check it out

[ks-net]

i have used it in 2000.8x ..  yes , rss with images

look in this site: alitheiaportal[.]com

section-> Επικαιρότητα...Οικονομία ...Διεθνή etc.....

this is UDC

[wbread]

no))
1. first make newsfeeds from  site you want
2. in UCD modul set "Newsfeed Category" or "Newsfeed Item"

[ROUBOS]

i have used it in 2000.8x ..  yes , rss with images

look in this site: alitheiaportal[.]com

section-> Επικαιρότητα...Οικονομία ...Διεθνή etc.....

this is UDC

OK tried it and it does work. I was wondering if it is possible to display these items in the form like "ΑλήθειαPortal - Τελευταία Νέα..." and also to open the links in a new tab of the browser and not on the same page.
I guess I can format the page with <div> tags in square formation and display multiple copies of the UCD on the same page.
Any other module that could do the same job?

thanks for the replies

[nikos]

Elxis Downloads Center has a lot of tools which in combination with your imagination you can create a lot of things.

Below i give you the idea how i have done this on a site 3 years ago and i think that worths to try it.

a) Install into your site module iTabs which in it's description refers:

iTabs is a simple module for displaying module positions using mootools carousel. Here's how it works:
1. Create custom module and publish it at some position (eg. user5). Then publish user5 at any of 5 tabs. Off course, you can create your own positions.
2. Publish some existing module at existing position. Publish selected position in selected tab.

b) Create a new user module and going into parameters there you can insert the RSS URL with control to Feed Description, Feed Image, Number of Items, Item Description and Word Count.

c) Do the same for the rest 4 positions of iTabs and enjoy a nice result!

And if you want to insert more feeds, then you have to add more positions on iTabs module which this needs some hard carefull job and you have to add also as many extra module positions you need from Templates Manager.  I have done it for 20 positions.

[ROUBOS]

can we have RSS news showing just like blog style content items? As per normal, instead of displaying the content items on the main page in blog view, we display rss news from other sources

[nikos]

You propably did not try the above way of RSS display. Try it and your question will be answered. 

[ROUBOS]

OK
installed eTabs, and I do display the RSS feeds. 5,10 per tab etc. But this does not do what I want it to do, or I'm not understanding what you're trying to tell me.
I need to have menu linked to sections/categories. Even UCD can display max of 30 items. Look at newsbeast.gr
I want the rss feeds to be used just like ordinary content items. Entered to the database. Not flashing one after the other.
A feed comes is, taken as a an item and entered in Elxis just like a typed up item. Under a section/category specified.
Hope I'm making sense.

Can it be achieved with the eBlog?

[nikos]

Ok you started this topic with title module collecting rss news and I just mentioned what i have done which does this you initialy asked for and looks also as blog, but you propably want something very custom as i see frrom your last post, which escapes from initial topic's title and is not looking to be just a module.

[ROUBOS]

yes that's true. just did not want to make yet another post. Don't want to be flooding the forum with similar topc posts.
Even though it seems like I am lately 

Can we add RSS feeds to the Blog component? This would be great and will be able to auto-update the site with news etc.

[ROUBOS]

doing some searching, I came across this http://www.rss2cms.com/

I notice that there is a plugin for wordpress cms that does this. Is there something similar we can do for elxis? Is there a way?  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/