Recipe 70: Using Panels with SimpleFeed

Note

Ingredients

Panels: http://drupal.org/project/panels

Enable the Panels, Panel pages, and View panes modules

SimpleFeed: http://drupal.org/project/simplefeed

Enable the SimpleFeed and SimpleFeed Item modules

SimplePie: http://simplepie.org

Unzip utility

In this recipe, we feed bicycle sale listings from craigslist into Drupal content items, and then use the Views and Panels modules to lay them out on the page. If you implement this recipe, please become familiar with the craigslist Terms of Use http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use.

Setup

1. Install and enable the Panels and SimpleFeed modules. Check the Ingredients for the five modules that need to be enabled for this recipe. The SimpleFeed module creates two content types: feed and feed_item.

2. Download the SimplePie program from SimplePie.org, and extract the simplepie.inc file into the <DRUPALROOT>/sites/all/modules/simplefeed directory.

3. We don't want our site to allow comments on craigslist posts...