Question

Is there a way of disabling the {title} tag in ExpressionEngine 2? My client needs just one custom field, {rss_feed}, to add content.

I use the AJW Feed Parser Add-On to parse RSS feeds. The client just wants to add a RSS/Atom feed link in order for the web page to be populated with that specific feed.

The problem is that there’s a conflict between the ExpressionEngine entry {title} and the {title} field from the AJW Feed Parser Add-On.

When I use the {title} template variable, the output is from ExpressionEngine’s default {title} field not the AJW Feed Parser {title}.

My code looks like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="1" dynamic="on" category="{embed:category}"}
    {exp:ajw_feedparser url="{blog_rss}" itempath="/feed/entry" cache_refresh="60" limit="1"}  
        <article>
            <header>
                <h1>{title}</h1>
                <time>{published format="%l, %j %F %Y at %G:%i"}</time>
                <a href="{author/uri}">{author/name}</a>
            </header>
            {content}
        </article>
    {/exp:ajw_feedparser} 
{/exp:channel:entries}

Is there another way of doing this with PHP?

Answer 1

This is why add-ons should include a “prefix” parameter, to avoid variable collisions like this.

Regardless, you can solve this with an embed.

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="1" dynamic="on" category="{embed:category}"}
    {embed="_embeds/blog_feed" url="{blog_rss}"}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then your _embeds/blog_feed template looks like this:

{exp:ajw_feedparser url="{embed:url_param}" itempath="/feed/entry" cache_refresh="60" limit="1"}  
    <article>
      <header>
        <h1>{title}</h1>
        <time datetime="2011-01-20T06:20:00-00:00">{published format="%l, %j %F %Y at %G:%i"}</time>
        <a href="{author/uri}">{author/name}</a>
      </header>
        {content}
    </article>
{/exp:ajw_feedparser}