[na3s]

Originally Posted by xenfra

I have found some feed with tags and i import them.
with the other feed I import feed_category in pligg_tags and it work great: in story there is almost a 1 tag.
But the tags that I import don't work with tag cloud.
somebody know why?

The reason it doesn't work is because when RSS_Import imports the tags, it does not have methods in place to separate the tags by themselves, so what happens (depending on the feed) is the tags either become one word (with no spaces) or become one entire tag with spaces.

I initially thought this would be easy to fix, but I have found it difficult to figure out how the import script works exactly. There doesn't seem to be a *middle man* through the whole process, so the only way to do it would be to auto detect it *hack* in link.php (strpos the tag field for spaces and strlen for more than a certain amount of characters) and then explode/impode the tags with commas... But even this is not fail proof... I don't know if there is a solid solution.

[3ruce]

Originally Posted by na3s

The reason it doesn't work is because when RSS_Import imports the tags, it does not have methods in place to separate the tags by themselves, so what happens (depending on the feed) is the tags either become one word (with no spaces) or become one entire tag with spaces.

I initially thought this would be easy to fix, but I have found it difficult to figure out how the import script works exactly. There doesn't seem to be a *middle man* through the whole process, so the only way to do it would be to auto detect it *hack* in link.php (strpos the tag field for spaces and strlen for more than a certain amount of characters) and then explode/impode the tags with commas... But even this is not fail proof... I don't know if there is a solid solution.

Ok, so I've been playing with Yahoo pipes to import RSS (still testing cron btw!) and I have a pipe setup to basically truncate entries to 250 chars on my site. Having seen how it works on Yahoo and reading the thread here, it may be possible to use pipes for a solution?

My idea is to have pipes extract each word from the title in each post and turn these into the tags for that particular imported item. Based on how the current 'tuncator' pipe works, it looks like it is possible to add in spaces, commas, other seperators to a field in a feed?

Anyway, the reason for writing this is that getting some help on pipes would be grand :-)

This is my 'truncator' pipe which may be a good starting point?

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=23ff986feea047aa9dd5646492acf1d5

I've also found another pipe which pulls the delicious tags from any url given to it, which might also work, although I guess it will need popular urls to suggest tags from, otherwise delicious won't make any suggestions? This pipe is here btw

Pipes: delicious tag extractor

[3ruce]

Originally Posted by 3ruce

Ok, so I've been playing with Yahoo pipes to import RSS

Based on the above, the following yahoo pipe attempts to take a feed from newsgator and prep it for pligg. The idea is to;

* truncate content of each post to 250 chars
* automatically add tags

The results so far are at Pipes: Shorten stories + lower case tags + tags - common words

While the pipe seems to add tags to each new story, they don't (yet!) appear in the tag cloud?

e.g.

Dig for Leadership - John Chambers, CEO of Cisco at MIT on Enterprise 2.0

[3ruce]

Originally Posted by na3s

then explode/impode the tags with commas... But even this is not fail proof... I don't know if there is a solid solution.

I've added commas to m tags at Pipes: Shorten stories + lower case tags + tags - common words but they don't show in the tag cloud, only on story pages themselves?!?

e.g.

Dig for Leadership - The business partner model: 10 years on - Lessons learned

Any ideas people?

[gnrsu]

but where is the script.?

[Yankidank]

Originally Posted by gnrsu

but where is the script.?

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