Article Images in SAG Content Scroller

[omestre]

1) Script Title: SAG Content Scroller

2) Script URL (on DD): http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/sagscroller.htm

3) Describe problem:

First wanted to thank you for this fantastic script.
I am using this script without being able to present images of the news, i want samething like the display news of yahoo rss used in the demo.
Is there any way to adapt the script without having to change the rss of my site?

My ticker:
http://www.impresapublishing.pt/rss/ticker/index_om.html

The rss for my site:
http://aeiou.expresso.pt/manchetes_feed.rss

The yahoo rss that works well with the script:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories

Thanks in advance for your help

[ddadmin]

Hmm as far as I'm know the only way to show images is to include the image(s) inside the DESCRIPTION element of each entry. That's the syntax required by Google Feeds API, which upon retrieving your RSS feeds returns that information in the structure described here (http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/reference.html#JSON). As you can see, only a predetermined set of elements are returned, such as author, entries[x], entries[x].content etc. It doesn't let you return the contents of a custom element within entries[x], in your case, entries[x].image. This means unfortunately you'll need to modify the structure of your RSS feed so the images are embedded inside the DESCRIPTION element.

[omestre]

:) Thanks for your help!
i will try now to change the rss structure.

keep on the good work.

[omestre]

Hi DD Admin,
it´s working fine, the images are displaying and i´m working now to insert a select list of diferent rss, can you help me to translate the rss displayoptions: 'datetime label description', to Portuguese? sorry i´m new in js, please help.
You can see here what i´m doing (if you have a better way, advise me):
http://aplicacoes.expresso.pt/inqueritos/tickers/teste_select.html

Thanks in advance.

[omestre]

Hi DD,
the images links are not openning in a new page like the news title tag:

+(/description/.test(rssdata.displayoptions) ? entries[i].content : entries[i].contentSnippet)


Can you help me to do it please?

Thanks in advance.

[ddadmin]

This is untested but should work. Inside the .js file, try finding the below line:


+(/description/.test(rssdata.displayoptions)? entries[i].content : entries[i].contentSnippet)

and replace it with:


+(/description/.test(rssdata.displayoptions)? entries[i].content.replace(/href="([^"]+)/g, "href=\"$1\" target=\"_new") : entries[i].contentSnippet)

[omestre]

Thanks for your help, it´s working fine.