Features News Block

Headline News block features are as follows:

Displays links to stories for RDF/RSS compatible news feeds. The block utilizes the same code base as the standard Geeklog Portal block.
Consists of four views: default view, detailed view, category view, and administration view:
- Default view is the main phpblock view (home page block). Registered users can customize the news provider. Anonymous users will receive the default provider set by the news administrator.
- Detailed view is a secondary view where users can view specific feeds before setting their default provider.
- Category view is a secondary view where users can view specific feeds sorted by category.
- Administration view is where a user configures his/her default news feed and where the site news admin sets the default news feed. The news admin can also add, update, or delete RDF/RSS feeds.
Has built in MySQL caching.
Has a built in block timer for measuring the execution time of the block.