News XML file

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XML file structure

The news XMl filename is a hash string incresed to a length of ten chars. You can use this code to generate them:

 substr(md5(time()), 0, 10)

To decode the ciphered strings use this method or the function. To encode use the methos in reverse order.

 Functions
 $trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
 $trans = array_flip($trans);
 $text = str_replace('=', '__________', $text);
 $text = strtr($text, $trans);
 $text = $this->ampReplace($text); (This function is located in the tcms_main class)
 $text = htmlentities($text);
 if(extension_loaded('mbstring')){ $text = mb_substr($text, 0, mb_strlen($text)); }
 $text = serialize($text);
 $text = base64_encode($text);
 
 Method
 decode_text($text, '2', $charset)
 $charset is the choosen charset by your webpage.

 * <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 Root structure

 * <news></news>
 Base tag. Take all other tags inside this one.

 * <title></title>
 News title. Decoded.
 Value: String

 * <autor></autor>
 News autor. Decoded.
 Value: String

 * <date></date>
 The news date.
 Format: DD.MM.YYYY (its formated in the german date format, i'm sorry)

 * <time></time>
 The news time.
 Format: HH.MM

 * <newstext></newstext>
 The news post. Decoded.
 Value: String

 * <order></order>
 The ten chars long id number. It's the same nubmer of the file.

 * <stamp></stamp>
 A timestamp. A timestamp string with the date and the time of the publishing date. It's needed for the sort order.
 Format: YYYYMMDDHHMM (YearMonthDayHourMinute)

 * <published></published>
 A flag if the news is published.
 Value: 1 or 0

 * <publish_date></publish_date>
 The publishing date.
 Format: DD.MM.YYY-HH:MM (Day.Month.Year-Hour:Minute)

 * <comments_enabled></comments_enabled>
 A flag if the comments are enabled for this news.
 Value: 1 or 0

 * <image></image>
 The path to the image. If the news has a singel image.

 * <category></category>
 A list of all categories for the news.
 Format: -Category Tag-{###}-Category Tag-{###} (51fa1{###}erdf4{###})
 The {###} is the seperator.

 * <access></access>
 The access level of the news.
 Values: Public, Protected or Private