// News from other resources
public string CNN_News()
{
if (!Request.IsAuthenticated || User.Identity.GetPermission() == 0) // Checks if the user is logged in and has access
{
return("Not logged in");
}
GetNews gn = new GetNews();
List <string[]> lst = gn.Add_CNN_News();
Category c = new Category();
c.Color = "blue";
c.Name = "blue";
c.CategoryId = 0;
var userId = User.Identity.GetUserId();
ApplicationUser user = db.Users.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Id.Equals(userId));
foreach (string[] str in lst)
{
Article a = new Article();
a.ArticleLink = str[2];
a.Category = c;
a.Date = DateTime.Now;
a.Description = str[1];
a.ImageLink = str[3];
a.Title = str[0];
a.User = user;
a.NumOfLikes = 0;
a.Source = "CNN";
Create(a);
}
return("Done.");
}
public void CNN_News()
{
GetNews gn = new GetNews();
List <string[]> lst = gn.Add_CNN_News();
Category c = new Category();
c.Color = "blue";
c.Name = "blue";
c.CategoryId = 0;
User u = new User();
u.Email = "*****@*****.**";
u.Name = "CNN";
u.Password = "";
u.Permission = 0;
foreach (string[] str in lst)
{
Article a = new Article();
a.ArticleLink = str[2];
a.Category = c;
a.Date = DateTime.Now.ToString("M/d/yyyy");
a.Description = str[1];
a.ImageLink = str[3];
a.Title = str[0];
a.User = u;
a.NumOfLikes = 0;
this.Create(a);
}
}
public ActionResult CNN_News(int cat, int amount)
{
ViewBag.Errors = new List <String>();
if (!Request.IsAuthenticated || User.Identity.GetPermission() == 0) // Checks if the user is logged in and has access
{
ViewBag.Errors.Add("Not logged in");
}
Category c = db.Categories.SingleOrDefault(x => x.CategoryId == cat);
if (c == null)
{
ViewBag.Errors.Add("Not valid category.");
}
if (amount < 5 || amount > 50)
{
ViewBag.Errors.Add("not a valid amount");
}
if (ViewBag.Errors.Count > 0)
{
return(RedirectToAction("Index"));
}
GetNews gn = new GetNews();
List <string[]> lst = gn.Add_CNN_News();
var userId = User.Identity.GetUserId();
ApplicationUser user = db.Users.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Id.Equals(userId));
int count = 0;
foreach (string[] str in lst)
{
if (count++ >= amount)
{
break;
}
Article a = new Article();
a.ArticleLink = str[2];
a.Category = c;
a.Date = DateTime.Now;
a.Description = str[1];
a.ImageLink = str[3];
a.Title = str[0];
a.User = user;
a.NumOfLikes = 0;
a.Source = "CNN";
if (!db.Articles.Any(x => x.ArticleLink.Equals(a.ArticleLink))) // checks if the article is already exists
{
Create(a);
}
}
return(RedirectToAction("Index"));
}