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Posted by viewattselevel on May 28, 2010 at 7:51pm

Hi All,

I am currently looking for some help with having an xml feed import into drupal to create news articles with our drupal cms. The job would require walking me(i'd consider my drupal knowledge to be somewhere in between beginner and intermediate) with the process. If anyone is interested please let me know

thanks,

Brian T

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Feeds

Posted by rjbrown99 on June 1, 2010 at 7:45am
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Your answer is here: http://drupal.org/project/feeds

If you want an excellent example in the form of a pre-configured Drupal installation that already does that, check out http://managingnews.com. If this is the complete aim of your site, it's probably easier to just take that and customize ManagingNews to your taste. It already has proper integration with the data module, pre-configured views, etc.

Based on time constraints I'm not going to be able to walk you through anything, but check out both of those - and especially Managing News - and let me know if you have specific questions.

Thanks for the links robert.

Posted by viewattselevel on June 1, 2010 at 7:12pm
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Thanks for the links robert. Ive tried playing around with the feeds module before i made my post, i wasnt able to successfully get the data to import.

I'll try it out again and if i have a specific question i will definitely let you know

Sure

Posted by rjbrown99 on June 8, 2010 at 5:30am
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Sure, no problem. Feel free to post more instructive information about your problem if you can.

  • What kind of XML feed you are dealing with? Custom or 'standard' format such as ATOM.
  • If it isn't standard, what does the structure of the file look like? Just blobs of data or are there specific fields you need?
  • How do you get this XML feed? Is it a web link, FTP, or other?
  • What do you want to do with the data after you import it? Do you want to import content fields into CCK or taxonomy?