Two line hacks for WP+Gallery+MagpieRSS

After visiting several WP sites with photos from Flickr on the side-bar, I wanted to have photos from my Gallery in the side-bar. Yesterday I found “Gallery-RSS” , a cool plugin for WP from Jon.

This plugin makes use of MagpisRSS, But I couldn’t find a way to read attributes of elements using MagpieRSS,
I temporarily implemented a 2 line hack. Also made minor changes to gallery_rss.php, including lame things like closing “<img />” for valid xhtml :-). Guess that’ll work for time being.

Patches:

1. Patched rss_parse.inc
2. Patched gallery_rss.php

Please let me know if that is any good.

[UPDATE] - How to use:

Example "<item>" element from my "Gallery" rss.


<item>
   <link>http://jaibharat.info/gallery/andhra98biet</link>
   <guid isPermaLink="false">390ac1c329dd7476e22508eaca731e86</guid>
   <title>Andhra 98 BIET</title>
   <pubDate>Mon,  3 Jan 2005 02:51:05 -0600</pubDate>
       <comments>
      http://jaibharat.info/gallery/view_comments.php?set_albumName=andhra98biet
   </comments>
       <photo:imgsrc>
       http://jaibharat.info/albums/andhra98biet/andhraboys.thumb.jpg
   </photo:imgsrc>
       <photo:thumbnail>
       http://jaibharat.info/albums/andhra98biet/andhraboys.sized.jpg
   </photo:thumbnail>
       <pb:thumb height="98" width="144">
       http://jaibharat.info/albums/andhra98biet/andhraboys.thumb.jpg
   </pb:thumb>
  <description/>
</item>


Example code to access attributes :


// "_mprAttribs" is concatinated with element name (in rss_parse)
define('ATTR', '_mprAttribs');

$rss = fetch_rss($gallery_rss_url);

// To read "height" and "weight" from <pb:thumb height="98" width="144">
foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
....
       $pb = $item['pb'];
       $pbThumbAtrs = $pb['thumb'.ATTR];

       $thumb_height = (double) $pbThumbAtrs['height'];
       $thumb_width = (double) $pbThumbAtrs['width']