Weblog Feeds - One Feed with Conditionals. | Community Support

#1 / Jan 13, 2009 12:45am

EvanSnyder

9 posts

Like many, I figured what I wanted to do would be fairly straight forward. I have 3 weblogs that I want to combine into one RSS feed. I can get two to work with out a hitch, but adding that third is where things get weird.

This makes the page fail to render (one elseif and one else condition):

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="10" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    <item>
      <title>
      {exp:xml_encode}
      {title}
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{title}
          {if:else weblog_id==3}{link-text}
          {/if}]]>
      {/exp:xml_encode}
      </title>
      <link>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title_permalink=thinking/index}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{link}
          {if:else weblog_id==3}{link}
          {/if}]]>
      </link>
      <guid>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title_permalink=thinking/index}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{link}
          {if:else weblog_id==3}{link}
          {/if}]]>
      </guid>
      <content:encoded>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{summary}<br><br><br>
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{quote}<br><br><br><a href="http://{link}">{spoken-by}</a><br><br><br>
          {if:else weblog_id==3}{description}<br><br><a href="http://{link}">permalink…</a><br><br><br>
          {/if}]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%m.%d.%y"}</dc:date>
    </item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

This renders just fine, but the third weblog (even with the newest item) is tacked on the very bottom/end of the page (two if:elseif condition):

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="10" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    <item>
      <title>
      {exp:xml_encode}
      {title}
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{title}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==3}{link-text}
          {/if}]]>
      {/exp:xml_encode}
      </title>
      <link>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title_permalink=thinking/index}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{link}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==3}{link}
          {/if}]]>
      </link>
      <guid>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title_permalink=thinking/index}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{link}
          {if:elseif weblog_id==3}{link}
          {/if}]]>
      </guid>
      <content:encoded>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{summary}<br><br><br>
          {if:elseif weblog_id==2}{quote}<br><br><br><a href="http://{link}">{spoken-by}</a><br><br><br>
          {if:elseif weblog_id==3}{description}<br><br><a href="http://{link}">permalink…</a><br><br><br>
          {/if}]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>{gmt_entry_date format="%m.%d.%y"}</dc:date>
    </item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Ideas?

Thanks so much…

#2 / Jan 13, 2009 1:07am

EvanSnyder
9 posts

Hmmm, I may have answered my own problem. I switched it to three separate if statements rather than trying to combine them as {if} {if:elseif} and {if:else}...

Then I noticed a discrepancy in my dates which may be the issue behind the ordering of each post relitive to the others… I’ll report back when I figure that out.

Long day I guess… sheesh.

#3 / Jan 13, 2009 1:12am

EvanSnyder

9 posts

Yep, that was it, my date was being generate off which was causing them to offset incorrectly. Though I’m still a little miffed that the if statements weren’t working how I think they are supposed to… So like I said above, I’m using three seperate if conditions:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{master_weblog_name}" limit="10" rdf="off" dynamic_start="on" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
    <item>
      <title>
      {exp:xml_encode}
      {title}
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title}{/if}
          {if weblog_id==2}{title}{/if}
          {if weblog_id==3}{link-text}{/if}
          ]]>
      {/exp:xml_encode}
      </title>
      <link>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title_permalink=thinking/index}{/if}
          {if weblog_id==2}{link}{/if}
          {if weblog_id==3}{link}{/if}
          ]]>
      </link>
      <guid>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{title_permalink=thinking/index}{/if}
          {if weblog_id==2}{link}{/if}
          {if weblog_id==3}{link}{/if}
          ]]>
      </guid>
      <content:encoded>
      <![CDATA[
          {if weblog_id==1}{summary}<br><br><br>{/if}
          {if weblog_id==2}{quote}<br><br><br><a href="http://{link}">{spoken-by}</a><br><br><br>{/if}
          {if weblog_id==3}{description}<br><br><a href="http://{link}">permalink…</a><br><br><br>{/if}
          ]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>{exp:xml_encode}{categories backspace="1"}{category_name}, {/categories}{/exp:xml_encode}</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>{date format="%Y %m %d"}</dc:date>
    </item>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

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