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by Ei Sabai Nyo

02 Dec, 2007

Horoscope Mambot (Plugin) for Joomla!    

Horoscope Mambot (Plugin) for Joomla!

Description

Display a daily/monthly horoscope for a specified star sign. It accepts an RSS feed URL as a parameter, gets star sign value from within your page content, appends the star sign value to the RSS feed URL, fetches the content of the feed, and changes your page content dynamically upon loading. You can have as many horoscope mambot as you like in a page.

Usage

Put {horoscope}YOUR SIGN{/horoscope} in the content area of your page

Feed URLs

  • http://www.shokk.com/cgi-bin/astrology_rss.pl?tid=
  • http://www.astrocenter.com/us/Feeds/RSS/getDaily.aspx?sign=

Demo

Horoscope Mambot (Plugin) for Joomla!

Download

Horoscope Mambot (Plugin) for Joomla! 24kb

This is my very first mambot/plugin and I welcome any comment and suggestion that you may have.

Check out The Ultimate Guide To Joomla for video tutorials on Joomla.

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5 Responses to “Horoscope Mambot (Plugin) for Joomla!”

  1. Lisa says:

    Hi
    Do you have a Horoscope plugin for Wordpress?

  2. eisabai says:

    Hi Lisa,

    I have not written a Horoscope plugin for WordPress. There are quite a few widgets on Astrology at Widgetbox that you might find useful: http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/astrology They are application independent – so you can add them to either WordPress blogs or any html pages.

  3. Darko says:

    Plagin (Joomla) does not work. Shows only the first characters in a row.

  4. Enero says:

    Do you know of any feeds that provide good spanish horoscope feeds? This is a great feature, just need to taylor it towards my site
    .-= Enero´s last blog ..Ejercicio y Sexo =-.

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