Ever wanted to publish your bookmarks on your blog? XBEL Reader is a Nucleus plugin created just for this purpose. Instead of using some weird non-standard solution, XBEL Reader is based on an existing standard called XBEL. This standard defines the contents of a bookmarks file in XML format.
| General Plugin info | |
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| Current Version: | 0.14 |
| Download: | XMLPlugins.zip [272Kb] |
| Forum Thread: | http://forum.nucleuscms.org/viewtopic.php?t=5029 |
| Author: | Rakaz |
There are already existing tools for creating XBEL files, some even offering the ability to export existing bookmarks from browsers. For example, for Firefox - my main browser - I use the Bookmarks Synchronizer extension. This extension allows me to select an existing folder from my bookmarks and export it as an XBEL file to an FTP server. It even offers the ability to do this automatically every time the browser is closed. So set it up once and it will keep the XBEL file on the FTP server up-to-date.
This is where the XBEL Reader plugin for Nucleus comes in. It takes the XBEL file on the server and displays it in your weblog. That's all there is to it. Simply configure the plugin and specify the location of the XBEL file on the server and place the following code somewhere in your skin <%XBEL%>
Additional information is available on Rakaz' weblog.
<%XBEL%>The latest version of this plugin contains a rather large charset conversion library. The next version of this plugin will not use this external library anymore, but instead will depend on the iconv or mbstring PHP extension.