MooTools Remote RSS Feed Parser

Whew!

I haven’t written on this blog since September 2010. I don’t really have much to say nowadays I guess.

That’s not why you’re here though, so let’s get down business.

I searched high and low whilst working on a Joomla module (Job Board) for a ready class that’ll work straight out the

box with the version of MooTools bundled with Joomla 1.5 (MooTools 1.12).

In the end, I built one from a couple of regular JavaScript snippets I found.
It uses the SimplePie PHP library to fetch the RSS feed and pass it on

to the MooTools class (Joomla also uses SimplePie for RSS).

The class – called MooFeed – also has an option: {remote:false} for when you’re fetching the feed from the same domain and want to bypass RSS fetching via PHP.

Usage

  var myFeed = new MooFeed ('MyDivID', url, {remote: true});

The “remote” option defaults to true when not specified.

Download the full source including demo

View the live demo

Maintenance Release: Job Board 1.5.0b for Joomla!

Last week’s release of Job Board 1.5.0 saw and influx of praise and encouragement from the Joomla! community.

I was also alerted to a couple of installation related and menu configuration issues, thanks to a couple of folks with a very sharp eye.

I want to Read more »

Job Board Extension Released

The long-promised Job listings component for Joomla has finally been released.

Follow this link (http://bit.ly/job_board) to try out the frontend demo and download the component and modules.

There are features I plan to add along the way (e.g. front-end job applicant profiles, language translations, etc.).

Suggestions and comments are highly encouraged.