Pligg Template

                        {checkActionsTpl location="tpl_pligg_admin_sidebar_start"}

			{checkActionsTpl location="tpl_pligg_admin_sidebar_end"}

			<div class="side-box">
			<h3>Pligg News</h3>
				<div class="side-box-content">
				{php}
 
				require '../templates/admin/simplepie.inc';
				$url = 'http://www.pligg.com/rss/blog';
 
				function shorten($string, $length)
				{
				// By default, an ellipsis will be appended to the end of the text.
				$suffix = '';
 
				// Convert 'smart' punctuation to 'dumb' punctuation, strip the HTML tags,
				// and convert all tabs and line-break characters to single spaces.
				$short_desc = trim(str_replace(array("\r","\n", "\t"), ' ', strip_tags($string)));
 
				// Cut the string to the requested length, and strip any extraneous spaces 
				// from the beginning and end.
				$desc = trim(substr($short_desc, 0, $length));
 
				// Find out what the last displayed character is in the shortened string
				$lastchar = substr($desc, -1, 1);
 
				// If the last character is a period, an exclamation point, or a question 
				// mark, clear out the appended text.
				if ($lastchar == '.' || $lastchar == '!' || $lastchar == '?') $suffix='';
 
				// Append the text.
				$desc .= $suffix;
 
				// Send the new description back to the page.
				return $desc;
				}
 
				$feed = new SimplePie();
				$feed->set_feed_url($url);
				$feed->init();
 
				// default starting item
				$start = 0;
 
				// default number of items to display. 0 = all
				$length = 5; 
				$shortdesc = 40;
 
				// set item link to script uri
				$link = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
 
				// loop through items
				foreach($feed->get_items($start,$length) as $key=>$item)
				{
 
				// set query string to item number
				$queryString = '?item=' . $key;
 
				$link = $item->get_link();
				$queryString = '';        
 
				// display item title and date    
				echo '<h4 style="padding-top:6px;"><a href="' . $link . $queryString . '">' . shorten($item->get_title(), 33) . '</a></h4>';
				echo ' <p style="padding-bottom:4px;"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:13px;">',shorten($item->get_description(), 133),'...</span></p>';
 
				echo '';
				}
 
				{/php}
				</div>
			</div>	
 
			<div class="side-box">
			<h3>New Products</h3>
				<div class="side-box-content">
				{php}
				$url = 'http://www.pligg.com/rss/products';
 
				$feed = new SimplePie();
				$feed->set_feed_url($url);
				$feed->init();
 
				// default starting item
				$start = 0;
 
				// default number of items to display. 0 = all
				$length = 5; 
				$shortdesc = 40;
 
				// set item link to script uri
				$link = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
 
				// loop through items
				foreach($feed->get_items($start,$length) as $key=>$item)
				{
 
				// set query string to item number
				$queryString = '?item=' . $key;
 
				$link = $item->get_link();
				$queryString = '';        
 
				// display item title and date    
				echo '<li><a href="' . $link . $queryString . '">' . shorten($item->get_title(), 33) . '</a></li>';
				// if single item, display content
				if(isset($_GET['item']))
 
				echo '';
				}
 
				{/php}
				</div>
			</div>