Rss Feed Block

[IchBin]

It could be the rss feed itself and not your TP. Try another rss feed and see if there's any improvement.

[libo]

lol. I already did.

[Xarcell]

rss feed block is buggy on v7.

[libo]

O? really that bad....

In v8 will it be fixed?

oh, yes I cannont try another site as my host only allows it from one ip right now..

[Xarcell]

I haven't messed with it in v8 yet. I'll try it out tonight. I know Bloc said he did some work on it though.

[libo]

well, the problem is isn't it supposed to work at least somewhat? mine works 1/10 of the time and doesn't work the rest of the time... Is there any explanation or should i just wait for v8?

[bloc]

The RSS block type really isn't very advanced - in the sense it only read *some* rss tags, not all of them.

TP v.0.8 does not have any special changes in that section, because I am expanding it quite a bit, and need more time for testing it.

[Nokonium]

You can get RSS feeds working reasonably well, I have 4 in php articles, by adding variations of this to TPortal.php:

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// RSS newsfeed for Computer Weekly
function RSSCW()
{
                global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

$backend = 'http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RSS.aspx?cat=108';
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
// end


// Now to the parsing itself. Starts by creating it:

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

// Then setup the handlers:

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElementNews");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");

// Open the actual datafile:

$fp = fopen($backend, "r");

// Run through it line by line and parse:

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
        or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
                   xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
                   xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
}

// Close the datafile

fclose($fp);

// Free any memmory used

xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
echo '</div>';
}

and this in a php article and I presume, a block as well.

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global $context, $settings, $options, $scripturl, $txt, $modSettings;

         echo '<div style="padding: 5px;" class="smalltext">';
        RSSCW();
         echo '</div>';

[libo]

errr.. That still gives errors...

[libo]

plus, shouldn't this rss feed block at least work 1/2 the time because right now it is erratic..