README ====== The News app is a an RSS/Atom feed aggregator. It is based on the library SimplePie. **It is not compatible with the first preview release from 2012** Maintainers ----------- * `Alessandro Cosentino `_ * `Bernhard Posselt `_ * `Jan-Christoph Borchardt `_ (Design) Status ------ Beta Bugs ---- Before reporting bugs: * We do not support Internet Explorer and Safari (Patches accepted though, except for IE < 10) * get the newest version of the App Framework * get the newest version of the News app * `check if they have already been reported `_ Before you install the News app ------------------------------- Before you install the app check that the following requirements are met: - `Magic quotes are turned off `_ (only needed for PHP < 5.4) - `You use a browser that supports the FileReader API `_ - You can use a cron or webcron to call Background Jobs in ownCloud - You have installed **php-curl** and activated it in the **php.ini** - Install ownCloud **5.0.5** (important! comes with required CSS styles) Should you have upgraded from a prior version, disable the CSS and JavaScript caching by adding this to :file:`owncloud/config/config.php`:: DEFINE('DEBUG', true); You can remove the line after a page reload App Store --------- Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Go to the ownCloud apps page - Activate the **App Framework** App first, then activate the **News** app in the apps menu - `Set up ownCloud Background Jobs `_ to enable feed updates. A recommended timespan for feed updates is 15-30 Minutes. Keep up to date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simply disable and reenable the **News** and **App Framework** App again (ownCloud deletes the app if its not shipped by default) Git (development version) ------------------------- Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Clone the **App Framework** app into the **/var/www** directory:: git clone https://github.com/owncloud/appframework.git - Clone the **News** app into the **/var/www** directory:: git clone https://github.com/owncloud/news.git - Link both into ownCloud's apps folder:: ln -s /var/www/appframework /var/www/owncloud/apps ln -s /var/www/news /var/www/owncloud/apps - Activate the **App Framework** App first, then activate the **News** app in the apps menu - `Set up ownCloud Background Jobs `_ to enable feed updates. A recommended timespan for feed updates is 15-30 Minutes. Keep up to date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To get the newest update you can use git. To update the appframework use:: cd /var/www/appframework git pull --rebase origin master To update the News app use:: cd /var/www/news git pull --rebase origin master Keyboard shortcuts ------------------ * **Next item**: n / j / right arrow * **Previous item**: p / k / left arrow * **Star current item**: s / i * **Keep current item unread**: u Performance Notices ------------------- * It is currently discouraged to use it in large hosted installations since there is no way to restrict the backgroundjob to require a pause of X minutes. This `will be addressed `_ in the `next ownCloud release `_. * Use MySQL or PostgreSQL for better database performance Configuration ------------- This will be in a seperate config file in the future but for now you can tweak the folowing things. :file:`dependencyinjection/dicontainer.php` * To cache feeds longer increase:: $this['simplePieCacheDuration'] = 30*60; // seconds * To let people have more read items per feed before they are purged increase:: $this['autoPurgeCount'] = 200; // per feed :file:`js/app/app.coffee` All changes in the coffee file have to be compiled by using:: make in the **js/** directory * To increase the interval when the app fetches new entries from database(!, not the webpage, thats set by the backgroundjob interval) change:: feedUpdateInterval: 1000*60*3 # miliseconds