Feed Retrieval Methods

• readFeed(feedURL, itemsType, maxItems) This method parses a feed and returns the results. It first looks for a valid server cached copy of the feed before going online for a copy.

<cfset rc.myFeed =  getPlugin("feedReader").readFeed("http://www.example.com/feeds/atom","array",20)>

• retrieveFeed(feedURL, itemsType, maxItems) This method parses a feed and returns the results. It only ever fetches the feed online and never uses a server cached copy.

<cfset rc.myFeed =  getPlugin("feedReader").retrieveFeed("http://www.example.com/feeds/atom","query",0)>

• parseFeed(xmlDoc, itemsType, maxItems) This method parses a feed that is provided in a CFML variable. It can not use a cached copy or go online to fetch a feed.

<---  Read feed from a XML file stored on the server --->
<cfset rc.myFile = getPlugin("Utilities").readFile("C:\www\xml\rss.xml")>
<---  Apply the xmlParse() function on the rc.myFile variable and parse the feed --->
<cfset rc.myFeed = getPlugin("feedReader").parseFeed(XmlParse(rc.myFile),"array",45)>

Arguments

• feedURL (required) URL to an online copy of the feed
• xmlDoc (required) Variable as a XML document object containing copy of the feed
• itemsType (optional) Parse the feed items as query or array, default is query
• maxItems (optional) Maximum number of feed items to display, default is 0 which displays all items