UTW – ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost() in the Feed?

The plus side: I can build a plugin. I can even make it work as far as modifying content goes.

The negative side: I (apparently) can’t just stuff the output from ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost() into a variable to add to the end of a feed.

But I’m not a php ninja either. Is there a way to do that?

I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to do, exactly. If you’re wanting to add that data into the_content as a filter for the case of feeds, then yes, I see your problem. ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost() actually echoes, where you need it returned instead.

This is probably not the cleanest way to do it, but it might work:

function UTW_GetRelatedPostsForCurrentPost($formattype, $format="", $limit = 0) {
global $utw, $post;
$format = $utw->GetFormat($formattype, $format);
return $utw->FormatPosts($utw->GetRelatedPosts($utw->GetTagsForPost($post->ID), $limit), $format);
}

If you’re wanting to add that data into the_content as a filter for the case of feeds[…]

Exactly.

Not completely sure I follow your example, but I’ll go play with it for a bit and see where I end up.

Right now I just have:

function st_addRelatedtoFeed ($content) {
	if ( ! is_feed() ) return $content;

	$stutw = UTW_ShowRelatedPostsForCurrentPost("posthtmllist","",6);
	$content = $content.$stutw;
   return ($content);
}

And you can spot pretty easily where it goes goofy. ??

Thanks!

Try this:

function UTW_GetRelatedPostsForCurrentPost($formattype, $format="", $limit = 0) {
global $utw, $post;
$format = $utw->GetFormat($formattype, $format);
return $utw->FormatPosts($utw->GetRelatedPosts($utw->GetTagsForPost($post->ID), $limit), $format);
}
function st_addRelatedtoFeed ($content) {
	if ( ! is_feed() ) return $content;
	$stutw = UTW_GetRelatedPostsForCurrentPost("posthtmllist","",6);
	$content = $content.$stutw;
   return ($content);
}

You didn’t let me go play yet!

I’m glad to see that’s about where I was headed though — and a quick test shows it is definitely on the right track.

Many thanks!

Thanks for your help Otto42!

Plugin Released.

I tried this – turned out to be pretty cool. Great idea, Handy.

p.s. “Moderator+” ?
Something wrong with “Supreme Ruler”?

Glad you liked it.

(Moderator++ seemed overly geeky.)

I’ll have to try this out – great idea.

(will others get a minus? ??