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This Xtscript function adds
pagination - feed selector - time ago date format
to the standard XtGem rss reader
Demo page http://syntax.xtgem.com/paged_rss
The first part is the settings script
This must go above the main script

<!--parser:xtscript--> # Default feed ( title and url separate with | ) var $default_feed=Yahoo world news|https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rss/world # More Feeds ( title and url separate with | ) ( feed data chunks separate with , I use separate lines for clarity ) var $feeds=$default_feed,BBC world news|http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml var $feeds=$feeds,Yahoo oddly enough|https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rss/oddly-enough var $feeds=$feeds,BBC science and enviroment news|http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/rss.xml # Other settings var $per_page=3 var $items=0 var $time_ago=1 var $template=<div class="xt_feed_item"><a href=".link.">.title.</a><br /><div name="pubdate">.pubDate.</div>.description.</div> get feed # Cookies if $feed call cookie::set $name=last_feed;$val=$feed;$expire=2419200;$force_current=1 else var $feed=call cookie::get $name=last_feed;$default=$default_feed endif <!--/parser:xtscript-->

Css classes you can change these in the scripts xt_feed = main container div class and id xt_feed_title = feed title container div xt_feed_inner = Inner container div (excludes pagination) xt_pagination = pagination container div (uses the same markup as the blog function) Main script Must go below the settings script

<!--parser:xtscript--> # Outer container print <div id="xt_feed" class="xt_feed"> # Feed selection menu var $offset=0 var $action=<xt:url noquery="yes"/> print <div class="xt_feed_select"> print <form class="form" action="$action" method="post"> print <select class="select" name="feed"> @loop0 var $next_feed = call strpos $haystack=$feeds,;$needle=,;$offset=$offset if not $next_feed goto @end_select endif var $this_feed= call substr $val=$feeds,;$start=$offset;$length=($next_feed-$offset) var $split=call strpos $haystack=$this_feed;$needle=| var $option_title=call substr $val=$this_feed;$start=0;$length=$split if $feed==$this_feed print <option value="$this_feed" selected="selected"> else print <option value="$this_feed"> endif print $option_title</option> var $offset=($next_feed+1) goto @loop0 @end_select # Submit and close form print </select><input class="xt_button submit" type="submit" value="go"/></form></div> # Main RSS function call var $feed_split=call strpos $haystack=$feed;$needle=| var $feed_title=call substr $val=$feed;$start=0;$length=$feed_split var $feed_title=<h2>$feed_title</h2> var $feed_url= call substr $val=$feed;$start=($feed_split+1) get_or_default __xt_content_page;1 var $count=1 var $offset=2 var $template=call htmlspecialchars $val=$template var $feed=<xt:feed feed="$feed_url" number="$items" template="||$template" />|| var $feed_end=call strlen $val=$feed print <div class="xt_feed_title">$feed_title</div> print <div class="xt_feed_inner"> print <!--parser:xt_pagination--> @loop var $start_item=$offset var $end_item=call strpos $haystack=$feed;$needle=||;$offset=$offset if not $count > ($__xt_content_page*$per_page) or not $count <= ($__xt_content_page-1*$per_page) call substr $val=$feed;$start=$start_item;$length=($end_item-$start_item-6) endif if $count==$per_page print <!--parser:xt_page_split--> var $count=0 endif var $offset=($end_item+2) if $offset < $feed_end var $count=($count+1) goto @loop endif print <!--/parser:xt_pagination--> print </div> # Close outer container print </div> <!--/parser:xtscript-->

Time ago (xtscript/javascript) must go below the other 2 scripts For "time ago" conversion to work .pubDate. must be wrapped in a element named pubdate in the $template variable in the settings script

<!--parser:xtscript--> if $time_ago print_raw {{ <script type="text/javascript"> // Function function timeAgo (dateString) { var rightNow = new Date(); var then = new Date(dateString); var diff = rightNow - then; var second = 1000, minute = second * 60, hour = minute * 60, day = hour * 24, week = day * 7; if (isNaN(diff) || diff < 0) {return ""; } if (diff < second * 2) {return "right now";} if (diff < minute) {return Math.floor(diff / second) + " seconds ago";} if (diff < minute * 2) {return "about 1 minute ago";} if (diff < hour) {return Math.floor(diff / minute) + " minutes ago";} if (diff < hour * 2) {return "about 1 hour ago";} if (diff < day) {return Math.floor(diff / hour) + " hours ago";} if (diff > day && diff < day * 2) {return "yesterday";} if (diff < day * 365) {return Math.floor(diff / day) + " days ago";} else {return "over a year ago";} } // Function call a=document.getElementsByName('pubdate'); for (b=0;b<a.length;b++){ c=Date.parse(a[b].innerText); a[b].innerText=timeAgo(c);} </script> }} endif <!--/parser:xtscript-->