Re: List of recent posts for a separate page

Ok, perhaps I'll give the trunk code a try. Is it a drop-in replacement 
for the release, with the same database tables and configuration properties?

Thanks,

   - Dennis

On 03/27/2014 01:54 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
> Hi Dennis, in your case, I'd recommend working with Roller trunk, as 
> it's just much smaller and more pleasant to work with, and potential 
> patches and other problems are considerably more likely to get fixed 
> there.  If you look at the many servlets defined in Roller's web.xml, 
> regardless of Roller version, maybe the code for UserDataServlet and 
> PlanetFeedServlet can give you an idea of the type of coding 
> (non-velocity) needed to return a desired response.  Doing a code 
> search on "velocity" in Roller's servlets package (in trunk, the 
> package is org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.rendering.servlets, perhaps 
> the same on the 5.0.x branch) can give you servlets more specific to 
> what you're trying to do.
>
> Glen
>
> On 03/26/2014 08:05 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestions, Glen, but I am trying to keep the site 
>> front page plain HTML (partially because I don't monitor all the 
>> time, and if Roller crashes - not that it ever would, of course, but 
>> anyway :-) - I'd prefer to have the front page stay up). If I just 
>> want to create a URL where I can access the feed as the output from a 
>> Velocity snippet, how could I add that to Roller? I see I can just 
>> add a JSP directly in the root directory, but it's not clear to me 
>> how I can attach that to a Velocity snippet inside Roller to give me 
>> back the list of posts.
>>
>>   - Dennis
>>
>> On 03/27/2014 11:50 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>>> Oops, misunderstood your request.  You can access the underlying 
>>> database directly, or rely on either the RSS or Atom feeds with a 
>>> mixture of CSS -- a google is showing there's several websites 
>>> around on mixing CSS & RSS/Atom. There are also Meta Weblog and 
>>> Blogger APIs meant for interfacing with desktop client blogging 
>>> tools that you might also be able to pull data out with -- look for 
>>> the "EditURI" link in the HTML header when viewing the HTML source 
>>> of your blog.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, make the front page of your site Roller by creating 
>>> another quasi-blog using the built-in "front page" theme that you 
>>> can modify to your heart's content-- by default, it looks similar to 
>>> this: http://www.jroller.com/) or activate the "Planet" feature for 
>>> your blog, I haven't used the latter though and it may have some 
>>> problems with it, I don't know. Twitter is another option -- if you 
>>> tweet your articles you can embed a Twitter gadget into your static 
>>> page.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Glen
>>>
>>> On 03/26/2014 05:00 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>>>> Thanks for getting back to me, Glen. I'd already looked at that 
>>>> post, though.
>>>>
>>>> My situation is that the front page of my site is not Roller and 
>>>> (at least currently) not even dynamic. I was hoping that Roller 
>>>> would define an endpoint I could access to get back an HTML list of 
>>>> recent post titles, so that I could just use that as the source for 
>>>> an iframe. I'd prefer to get the list back in reasonable form for 
>>>> presentation on the client using CSS (otherwise I suppose I could 
>>>> just use the Atom feed). If there isn't any direct source for this 
>>>> now, I suppose I could add a special page to my template to 
>>>> generate what I want using the Velocity snippet, and use that 
>>>> special page as the source for the iframe. Is that the best way to 
>>>> get what I want?
>>>>
>>>> It's not clear offhand how I'd add such a special page to my Roller 
>>>> configuration without stepping on anything, so if that is the best 
>>>> way to do things I'd appreciate any pointers.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>   - Dennis
>>>>
>>>> On 03/26/2014 11:47 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>>>>> Hi Dennis, sure, look at Item #8 here: 
>>>>> http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_blogging for a 
>>>>> Velocity macro you can place into your Roller template: 
>>>>> http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/apache_roller_blogging. What 
>>>>> it looks like you can see on the right-side of my blog.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Glen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/25/2014 11:31 PM, Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>>>>>> Hi, Rollers :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've set up a new Roller blog within my site, and I'd like to 
>>>>>> embed a list of the recent post titles with links in the main 
>>>>>> page (plain HTML, not Roller). Is there a simple way I can get 
>>>>>> this info from Roller in a form where I can just embed it in the 
>>>>>> page? I'm thinking an HTML iframe, or something of the sort.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   - Dennis
>>>>>>
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