Blog integration with Zen?

[polarduality]

I am just wondering if there is any way to integrate the posts from a Blogger account into Zen. Please excuse my ignorance but could it be done with an include or a feed of some type?

Thanks

[DrByte]

If your blogging system allows you to extract information via a feed, then you could build a sidebox to pull data from that feed and display its content.

[polarduality]

it could only be done with a sidebox?
i'd like to display it on it's own ez page.

[DrByte]

I think you'll have significant trouble doing it in an EZ-Page since you'd need to have it process scripts and/or PHP commands, etc, and EZ-Pages probably won't do that very well currently.

You could do it via a "normal" page such as page_2 etc, where you code the logic for extracting from the feed into the module file, and then use the template file to display it.


(I assumed you would use a sidebox since I was thinking that often a blog isn't directly related to selling online... oops :) )

[polarduality]

thanks for the info :)
sounds very complicated.

[polarduality]

ok I have another question... :)

Since integrating a blog isn't an easy task, is there a working contribution for 1.3 that makes it easy to enter news into a specified page in Zen cart?

*goes off to search

[seethrou]

For your reference.

Wordpress On Zencart / Released

[Kim]

Look for Dreamscape's News and Article Manager. It is what has been used for the News on the Zen Cart Home page.

[polarduality]

Thanks!

I did find the News and Article manager but wanted to make sure it worked WELL before doing anything with it. :) If Zen uses it then I feel more comfortable installing it now.

[sch.sms]

"code the logic for extracting from the feed into the module file, and then use the template file to display it."

Could you elaborate on this? I'm trying to figure out how to integrate blogger on one page a photo gallery on another.