public function widget_rssreader() { // fetch the google group clansuite for latest news $feeditems = Clansuite_Feed::fetchRSS('http://groups.google.com/group/clansuite/feed/rss_v2_0_topics.xml'); // assign to smarty $view = $this->getView(); $view->assign('items_newswidget', self::getConfigValue('items_newswidget', '3')); $view->assign('feed', $feeditems); }