Technorati's tag indexing has gotten me interested in having a full Atom feed for this site, including categories. So I downloaded the latest Atom module for Drupal 4.5 and then used Walkah's patch to modify the module to generate a full Atom feed. Then http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/atom/feed stopped working. Oddly enough, when I commented out the cache portion it worked again. So now I have an atom feed with categories here: http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/atom.xml
I recording the steps I took to do this because this module is not documented (as is sometimes the case with Drupal modules). Good luck:
1) Downloaded the atom module.
2) Downloaded atom.diff and saved to modules/atom/ directory.
3) Executed command in Unix terminal window: patch < atom.diff
4) Checked the module's output at http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/atom/feed
5) Created an alias via the menu "Administer > Url aliases" from atom/feed to atom.xml.
Thanks to Kika for providing the module and to Walkah for the patch. This is why I now send people who ask me if I freelance over to people like those Bryght guys.
Comments
03/14/05 @ 21:53
the "may_cache" bit actually does work the way it's supposed to : you just need to flush the cache so that the location will get picked up. this usually happens when you enable the module, e.g. - but since you applied it as a patch you'd have to do it by hand.
"DELETE FROM cache;" in your db works. There's also a flush cache option in the devel module too, IIRC.
thanks for the kind words :)
03/14/05 @ 22:01
Lovely! And sure enough it does work. Double props.
03/21/05 @ 16:13
Thanks for the atom advice, but both the link and the alias for your feed lead me back to your Weblog page, non-atomized.
03/21/05 @ 18:19
Ah. I turned it off when I was troubleshooting the permissions problem. Turned back on again. Sorry.
07/18/06 @ 12:32
Are you still using this feed module? I recently came across a total feeds module (requires a hack to node.module) which combines the Atom and commentrss module's functions.
Cheers,
Alex
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