RSS widget using widget description for title

[Cyburbia]

I'm finding that a lot of RSS feeds have titles that are much longer than the name of the site itself. Sometimes, they include HTML. Thus, I get feed widgets that look like this:



What I'd like to do is have the option of making the widget description the title if it is provided. From what little I know, I think that means doing some kind of if-else conditional. Thus, in vbcms_widget_rss_page (4.1.7), I'd replace ...

<div class="cms_widget_header">
    <h3><a href="{vb:raw rss_link}" target="_blank">{vb:raw rss_title}</a></h3>
</div>

with something like ...

<div class="cms_widget_header">
    <vb:if condition="(SOMETHING)">
        <h3><a href="{vb:raw rss_link}" target="_blank">{vb:(SOMETHING ELSE)}</a></h3>
    <vb:else />
        <h3><a href="{vb:raw rss_link}" target="_blank">{vb:raw rss_title}</a></h3>
    </vb:if>
</div>

Is this correct? What should I substitute for (SOMETHING) and (SOMETHING ELSE)?

Thanks!

[Cyburbia]

Bump. Does anyone know? I've seen a few similar threads on .org and .com, and they've all been sitting unanswered for months.

[Cyburbia]

[phoenix1977]

Is it possible insert the html or php code in the sidebar block to retrive an external feed rss?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Cyburbia

Bump. Does anyone know? I've seen a few similar threads on .org and .com, and they've all been sitting unanswered for months.

To Cyburbia, did you ever figure it out. I haven't tried it but I think in your code SOMETHING would be "!empty($rss_description)" and SOMETHING ELSE would be rss_description.