I think that K2 needs either to be able to connect to the feedgator and articleGenerator components, or the import from Joomla needs to be include section and category selections.

Not so sure what you're asking, but you merely need to grab the primary RSS URL from K2 and insert it into the Feedgator configuration field.

FidelGonzales said:Not so sure what you're asking, but you merely need to grab the primary RSS URL from K2 and insert it into the Feedgator configuration field.


Thanks, I'll try that.

FidelGonzales,

What do you mean exactly? Because We are also looking into getting content from FeedGator & ArticleGenerator Component direct into K2.

the situation right now is that the K2 Import always adds the section as a new K2 category even if it (by name) already exists.

Could you not change the importer so that for each article
1) The Section of the Article is added as K2 category (only when it does not exists)
2) The Category of the Article is added as K2 Subcategory (only if it does not exists in the parent K2 category)

Or does the direct connection from FeedGator & ArticleGenerator Component direct into K2 solve my challenge?

With kind regards,
Steve

All,

We could always change the import function in the model/items.php but that will make me brake any future updates of K2

Steve

Steve C.J. Rokette said:All,
We could always change the import function in the model/items.php but that will make me brake any future updates of K2

Steve



I'm not sure it's a good idea to do that. maybe what's needed is a field for the URl or list to select a component to connect with?

Yes that might not be the case! i saw a import script from twitter.com/gnomeontherun is this script still suitable for K2 Version 2?

Can we edit (if so witch file ?) some PHP where it say section/category so it could be send to k2/category or something of a sort ? for section and category we could put and IF ..ELSE or TRUE and FALSE bloc in the file where it send the creation of article ??

sorry but i'm still a n00b.

cheer


Steve C.J. Rokette said:Yes that might not be the case! i saw a import script from twitter.com/gnomeontherun is this script still suitable for K2 Version 2?

klinkz said:Can we edit (if so witch file ?) some PHP where it say section/category so it could be send to k2/category or something of a sort ? for section and category we could put and IF ..ELSE or TRUE and FALSE bloc in the file where it send the creation of article ??
sorry but i'm still a n00b.

cheer


Steve C.J. Rokette said:Yes that might not be the case! i saw a import script from twitter.com/gnomeontherun is this script still suitable for K2 Version 2?





Actually, it may be better for all of us in the community to request (somehow) that the developer(s) add a feedagtor and/ ArticleGenerator function(s). K2's functionality is actually better than Joomla's, I think. The best part of it is that it's so young in development. They've done a fabulous job with this component. Thanks Guys.

Walt

Feed Gator has undergone a lot of work over the last few months and is considerably better than it was. It now natively supports importing in K2 too! Check it out here at the JED