Drupal syndication

UA WebmastersMay 8, 2013

Margrit McIntosh

Moving content into and out of Drupal sites

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP

Overview: Modules• Aggregator (optional Drupal core)• Views– Views data export – for creating CSV or XML feeds

• Feeds– Feeds Tamper– Feeds XPath Parser – for incoming XML feeds

• LDAP• UUID• Services - allows a Drupal site to provide web

services via multiple interfaces (REST, XMLRPC, JSON, JSON-RPC, SOAP, AMF, etc.)

Not covered: using the LDAP module for user provisioning, user authentication, or user authorization.

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– whole-site RSS publishing

http://yoursite.com/rss.xml– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP

Demo: Exporting RSS Feed

• Create and populate content type to export via feed

• Create a View and use the Feed plugin• If needed, edit content type to add fields to

Teaser view mode • Note that all fields will be contained in the

<Description>

Demo: Exporting CSV and XML Feeds

• Install Views Data Export module• In a View, add your fields, then– add Data export (default is CSV)– (or) add Data export and modify to XML

If exporting XML, check your feed to make sure it is not malformed.

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP

Incoming: Aggregator

• Optional core module Aggregator• Does not make nodes • Useful for simple uncomplicated presentation

of incoming feeds

Incoming: Feeds

• Can import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records

• Receives RSS/Atom, CSV, OPML• Feeds XPathParser lets you map bits from raw

XML feed to fields• Feeds ImageGrabber lets you import images

to an image field• Feeds Tamper lets you massage fields

example: csv file import

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP

Demo: COM D7 OPA News

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP

A word of warning:Creating a directory from EDS does NOT get rid of these problems:1.incorrect data2.disliked data3.data curation responsibility4.expiring outdated nodes

EDS to nodes via LDAP

• You will need to get an account to access EDS: need two people who are FERPA-trained to be account holders.

• You will need to have the LDAP Extension to PHP installed on your server.

• Multivalue attributes will not get into a multi-value field unless you hack the module

So you’ve decided to LDAP your Directory. . .

Now that you have your EDS account and your server is set up . . . •Decide what attributes you want http://sia.uits.arizona.edu/eds_attributes•Create content type to hold people•Set up your LDAP Server•Start running some test queries

Demo: test query

Feed Importer

• For testing: create a query that returns a handful of records

• Create a new content type just for the Importer to attach to.

• Set up the Feed Importer and do your mapping

• Test it and see if it creates a handful of nodes

Demo: COM D7 People

with Feeds Tamper

Overview

1. Creating outgoing content– Views: add a Feed (RSS, CSV, XML)

2. Consuming incoming content– Consuming Feeds or files– Migrating content between Drupal sites

3. Use case: Creating nodes from XML feed4. Use case: Creating nodes from EDS records

via LDAP