Export Module

This module transform content/data into various formats, xml, PDF, RSS, etc

Export2Mgr

Overview

• exports any CMS or Data Access Object content as a valid RSS2 feed
• easy to configure

Minimum requirements

• Seagull 0.6.2
• CMS 1.1
• PHP5

Exporting CMS content

• to get the latest content of type FOO (content type ID = 5) add following line to modules/export/conf.ini

[/datasrc/cms/contenttype/5]
title = name
description = text

• calling URL

http://localhost/seagull/www/index.php/export/rss2/datasrc/cms/contenttype/5

Exporting DAO content - eg1

• to get an RSS feed of all users added to the system add following line to modules/user/conf.ini

[/datasrc/dao/module/user/method/getUsers] ; you must create this method
title = first_name
description = usr_id, telephone, address_1, address_2

• calling URL

http://localhost/seagull/www/index.php/export/rss2/datasrc/dao/module/user/method/getUsers

Exporting DAO content - eg2

• to get an RSS feed of the latest image media added to the system add following line to modules/media/conf.ini

[/datasrc/dao/module/media/method/getMediaByFileType/5] ; 5 is the image type
title = name
description = mime_type
createdBy = media_added_by

• calling URL

http://localhost/seagull/www/index.php/export/rss2/datasrc/dao/module/media/method/getMediaByFileType/filetype/5

Constraints

• you can have as many args to dynamic methods as you like, or none
• args must be scalar
• in the calling URL the convention is for key1/value1/key2/value2
• in the config file the pattern only requires the value ie, value1/value2

Coming soon

• ability to specify multiple fields for 'description' in config that will be merged for RSS output