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/**
* A block which displays Remote feeds
*
* @package block_rss_client
* @copyright Daryl Hawes
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL
*/
class block_rss_client extends block_base {
/** The maximum time in seconds that cron will wait between attempts to retry failing RSS feeds. */
const CLIENT_MAX_SKIPTIME = 43200; // 60 * 60 * 12 seconds.
function init() {
$this->title = get_string('pluginname', 'block_rss_client');
}
function applicable_formats() {
return array('all' => true, 'tag' => false); // Needs work to make it work on tags MDL-11960
}
function specialization() {
// After the block has been loaded we customize the block's title display
if (!empty($this->config) && !empty($this->config->title)) {
// There is a customized block title, display it
$this->title = $this->config->title;
} else {
// No customized block title, use localized remote news feed string
$this->title = get_string('remotenewsfeed', 'block_rss_client');
}
}
function get_content() {
global $CFG, $DB;
if ($this->content !== NULL) {
return $this->content;
}
// initalise block content object
$this->content = new stdClass;
$this->content->text = '';
$this->content->footer = '';
if (empty($this->instance)) {
return $this->content;
}
if (!isset($this->config)) {
// The block has yet to be configured - just display configure message in
// the block if user has permission to configure it
if (has_capability('block/rss_client:manageanyfeeds', $this->context)) {
$this->content->text = get_string('feedsconfigurenewinstance2', 'block_rss_client');
}
return $this->content;
}
// How many feed items should we display?
$maxentries = 5;
if ( !empty($this->config->shownumentries) ) {
$maxentries = intval($this->config->shownumentries);
}elseif( isset($CFG->block_rss_client_num_entries) ) {
$maxentries = intval($CFG->block_rss_client_num_entries);
}
/* ---------------------------------
* Begin Normal Display of Block Content
* --------------------------------- */
$output = '';
if (!empty($this->config->rssid)) {
list($rss_ids_sql, $params) = $DB->get_in_or_equal($this->config->rssid);
$rss_feeds = $DB->get_records_select('block_rss_client', "id $rss_ids_sql", $params);
$showtitle = false;
if (count($rss_feeds) > 1) {
// when many feeds show the title for each feed
$showtitle = true;
}
foreach($rss_feeds as $feed){
$output.= $this->get_feed_html($feed, $maxentries, $showtitle);
}
}
$this->content->text = $output;
return $this->content;
}
function instance_allow_multiple() {
return true;
}
function has_config() {
return true;
}
function instance_allow_config() {
return true;
}
/**
* Returns the html of a feed to be displaed in the block
*
* @param mixed feedrecord The feed record from the database
* @param int maxentries The maximum number of entries to be displayed
* @param boolean showtitle Should the feed title be displayed in html
* @return string html representing the rss feed content
*/
function get_feed_html($feedrecord, $maxentries, $showtitle){
global $CFG;
require_once($CFG->libdir.'/simplepie/moodle_simplepie.php');
$feed = new moodle_simplepie($feedrecord->url);
if(isset($CFG->block_rss_client_timeout)){
$feed->set_cache_duration($CFG->block_rss_client_timeout*60);
}
if ($CFG->debugdeveloper && $feed->error()) {
return '
'. $feedrecord->url .' Failed with code: '.$feed->error().'
';
}
$r = ''; // return string
if($this->config->block_rss_client_show_channel_image){
if($image = $feed->get_image_url()){
$imagetitle = s($feed->get_image_title());
$imagelink = $feed->get_image_link();
$r.='';
}
}
if(empty($feedrecord->preferredtitle)){
$feedtitle = $this->format_title($feed->get_title());
}else{
$feedtitle = $this->format_title($feedrecord->preferredtitle);
}
if($showtitle){
$r.=''.$feedtitle.'
';
}
$r.=''."\n";
$feeditems = $feed->get_items(0, $maxentries);
foreach($feeditems as $item){
$r.= $this->get_item_html($item);
}
$r.='
';
if ($this->config->block_rss_client_show_channel_link) {
$channellink = $feed->get_link();
if (!empty($channellink)){
//NOTE: this means the 'last feed' display wins the block title - but
//this is exiting behaviour..
$this->content->footer = ''. get_string('clientchannellink', 'block_rss_client') .'';
}
}
if (empty($this->config->title)){
//NOTE: this means the 'last feed' displayed wins the block title - but
//this is exiting behaviour..
$this->title = strip_tags($feedtitle);
}
return $r;
}
/**
* Returns the html list item of a feed item
*
* @param mixed item simplepie_item representing the feed item
* @return string html li representing the rss feed item
*/
function get_item_html($item){
$link = $item->get_link();
$title = $item->get_title();
$description = $item->get_description();
if(empty($title)){
// no title present, use portion of description
$title = core_text::substr(strip_tags($description), 0, 20) . '...';
}else{
$title = break_up_long_words($title, 30);
}
if(empty($link)){
$link = $item->get_id();
} else {
try {
// URLs in our RSS cache will be escaped (correctly as theyre store in XML)
// html_writer::link() will re-escape them. To prevent double escaping unescape here.
// This can by done using htmlspecialchars_decode() but moodle_url also has that effect.
$link = new moodle_url($link);
} catch (moodle_exception $e) {
// Catching the exception to prevent the whole site to crash in case of malformed RSS feed
$link = '';
}
}
$r = html_writer::start_tag('li');
$r.= html_writer::start_tag('div',array('class'=>'link'));
$r.= html_writer::link($link, s($title), array('onclick'=>'this.target="_blank"'));
$r.= html_writer::end_tag('div');
if($this->config->display_description && !empty($description)){
$formatoptions = new stdClass();
$formatoptions->para = false;
$r.= html_writer::start_tag('div',array('class'=>'description'));
$description = format_text($description, FORMAT_HTML, $formatoptions, $this->page->course->id);
$description = break_up_long_words($description, 30);
$r.= $description;
$r.= html_writer::end_tag('div');
}
$r.= html_writer::end_tag('li');
return $r;
}
/**
* Strips a large title to size and adds ... if title too long
*
* @param string title to shorten
* @param int max character length of title
* @return string title s() quoted and shortened if necessary
*/
function format_title($title,$max=64) {
if (core_text::strlen($title) <= $max) {
return s($title);
} else {
return s(core_text::substr($title,0,$max-3).'...');
}
}
/**
* cron - goes through all the feeds. If the feed has a skipuntil value
* that is less than the current time cron will attempt to retrieve it
* with the cache duration set to 0 in order to force the retrieval of
* the item and refresh the cache.
*
* If a feed fails then the skipuntil time of that feed is set to be
* later than the next expected cron time. The amount of time will
* increase each time the fetch fails until the maximum is reached.
*
* If a feed that has been failing is successfully retrieved it will
* go back to being handled as though it had never failed.
*
* CRON should therefor process requests for permanently broken RSS
* feeds infrequently, and temporarily unavailable feeds will be tried
* less often until they become available again.
*
* @return boolean Always returns true
*/
function cron() {
global $CFG, $DB;
require_once($CFG->libdir.'/simplepie/moodle_simplepie.php');
// Get the legacy cron time, strangely the cron property of block_base
// does not seem to get set. This means we must retrive it here.
$this->cron = $DB->get_field('block', 'cron', array('name' => 'rss_client'));
// We are going to measure execution times
$starttime = microtime();
$starttimesec = time();
// Fetch all site feeds.
$rs = $DB->get_recordset('block_rss_client');
$counter = 0;
mtrace('');
foreach ($rs as $rec) {
mtrace(' ' . $rec->url . ' ', '');
// Skip feed if it failed recently.
if ($starttimesec < $rec->skipuntil) {
mtrace('skipping until ' . userdate($rec->skipuntil));
continue;
}
// Fetch the rss feed, using standard simplepie caching
// so feeds will be renewed only if cache has expired
core_php_time_limit::raise(60);
$feed = new moodle_simplepie();
// set timeout for longer than normal to be agressive at
// fetching feeds if possible..
$feed->set_timeout(40);
$feed->set_cache_duration(0);
$feed->set_feed_url($rec->url);
$feed->init();
if ($feed->error()) {
// Skip this feed (for an ever-increasing time if it keeps failing).
$rec->skiptime = $this->calculate_skiptime($rec->skiptime);
$rec->skipuntil = time() + $rec->skiptime;
$DB->update_record('block_rss_client', $rec);
mtrace("Error: could not load/find the RSS feed - skipping for {$rec->skiptime} seconds.");
} else {
mtrace ('ok');
// It worked this time, so reset the skiptime.
if ($rec->skiptime > 0) {
$rec->skiptime = 0;
$rec->skipuntil = 0;
$DB->update_record('block_rss_client', $rec);
}
// Only increase the counter when a feed is sucesfully refreshed.
$counter ++;
}
}
$rs->close();
// Show times
mtrace($counter . ' feeds refreshed (took ' . microtime_diff($starttime, microtime()) . ' seconds)');
return true;
}
/**
* Calculates a new skip time for a record based on the current skip time.
*
* @param int $currentskip The curreent skip time of a record.
* @return int A new skip time that should be set.
*/
protected function calculate_skiptime($currentskip) {
// The default time to skiptime.
$newskiptime = $this->cron * 1.1;
if ($currentskip > 0) {
// Double the last time.
$newskiptime = $currentskip * 2;
}
if ($newskiptime > self::CLIENT_MAX_SKIPTIME) {
// Do not allow the skip time to increase indefinatly.
$newskiptime = self::CLIENT_MAX_SKIPTIME;
}
return $newskiptime;
}
}