This tutorial will be split into three parts - part 1 (this part) will explain how to set up the aggregation and import feeds, part 2 (to be published next post) will explain setting up cron to handle auto updating the feeds and will also cover using views to create some different site sections, and part 3 (to be published the post after that) will explain how to theme everything. In the tutorial I will be building a Drupal based sports news aggregation site, but you can obviously tailor this to whatever type of news items you'd like.
The goals:
- Create an aggregation site which aggregates RSS feeds and outputs them in river of news style pages with the most recent news items first.
- Create some different site sections (football and baseball) which only show news items related to that topic.
- Allow users to filter news items by source (e.g. ESPN, BBC etc.).
- Create RSS feeds of our aggregated pages which are available for our users.
You can check out the finished aggregation site (part 1 + part 2) here.
The set up:
For this tutorial I'll be using the following:
- A clean install of Drupal 5.10 (using Garland)
- SimpleFeed 5.x-2.2
- Views 5.x-1.6
