Setting up rss feeds

Forbairt · #21 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 03:38 PM

To be honest I'd not used magpie before yesterday very handy to set up and run with a bit of php knowledge

You may be interested in the international aspect of Last RSS http://lastrss.oslab.net/demo4.phps

Forbairt · #22 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 03:42 PM

bloody hell ... just saw this thread has 585 views ? ... not bad considering it was only created yesterday

ghost · #23 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 04:50 PM

Found the problem with my last Rss feeds
yes it was encoding . the site example I gave was built with html and php scripts on seperate pages , I had placed the document character encoding
on the php page instead of the html page.
I only noticed when I viewed the demo thanks forbairt .

Forbairt · #24 (**permalink**) 21-12-2007, 04:58 PM

no problem

Character Encoding was the bane of my existance about 4 years ago when I started working on a multilingual website application featuring about 13 languages .. UG ...

ghost · #25 (**permalink**) 22-12-2007, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Forbairt

bloody hell ... just saw this thread has 585 views ? ... not bad considering it was only created yesterday

624 and counting
I am not surprised This was a Good Tutorial on RSS set up and should be up graded to Sticky.
has my vote.

Big D · #26 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 05:49 PM

'scuse my ignorance in this, but I too am having problems with Irish newsfeeds where the letters have accents, like the `e' in RTE and `i' in Gardai.

My problem is that I don't know what you mean by the `encoding' and where I would find it - is it part of the doctype?

ghost · #27 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 06:41 PM

I am using last rss and if everything else is set up right placing the following code in the head of your html document should do the trick.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
if not post again and I will direct you to the rest of the code for last rss.
Mick

Big D · #28 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 06:57 PM

I am using Magpie and this is the line of coding i have in my header:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />

I swapped it with the line you suggested but to no avail.

Does my problem lie with using Magpie perhaps?

ghost · #29 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 07:25 PM

Sorry Big D I have not used Magpie before ,so I cant help you with that.
But heres the low down on Last RSS I use this because I find it simple to set up .
you can download from here. http://lastrss.oslab.net/lastRSS.zip this is the class file.
Here is the code to use in your page or as an include page.
I have set my cache directory to ./Temp'; change this to suit your system.
cache_time = 14000; // (4hrs)
and Items limit = 5
you will also notice I have a style for the table table class="rss_section"

PHP Code:

  function ShowOneRSS($url) {
global $rss;
if ($rs = $rss->get($url)) {
echo '<h2><a href="'.$rs['link'].'">'.$rs['title']."</a></h2>\n";
echo $rs['description']."<br>\n";
echo "<ul>\n";
foreach ($rs['items'] as $item) {
echo '<li><a href="'.$item['link'].'" title="'.$item['description'].'">'.$item['title'].'</a></li>';
}
if ($rs['items_count'] <= 0) { echo "<li>Sorry, no items found in the RSS file :-(</li>"; }
echo "</ul>\n";
}
}
// ===
// include lastRSS
include "lastRSS.php";
// List of RSS URLs
$rss_left = array(
'http://www.rte.ie/rss/gaa.xml',
);
$rss_right = array(
'http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/rss'
);
// Create lastRSS object
$rss = new lastRSS;
// Set cache dir, cache interval and character encoding
$rss->cache_dir = './Temp';
$rss->cache_time = 14000; // (4hrs)
$rss->cp = '';
$rss->items_limit = 5;
// Show all rss files
echo '<table class="rss_section" cellpadding="5" border="0"><tr><td width="50%" valign="top">';
foreach ($rss_left as $url) ShowOneRSS($url);
echo '</td><td width="50%" valign="top">';
foreach ($rss_right as $url) ShowOneRSS($url);
echo '</td></tr></table>';

You can view mine here St Columba's Hurling Club,Renmore Galway GAA bottom of the home page.
Ghost

Big D · #30 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 07:36 PM

Ghost, thanks for that - I will look at last rss and your code tomorrow, but I reckon it could take me hours to figure this out whilst a wizard webmaster could sort it in seconds - I am setting up a new web page and also trying to convert Library Ireland: Irish History and Culture to the same format so I think I'll need to get some expert help to ensure I don't make some grave error - if I can get someone to check my code and css template then I'll get them to sort the feed problem as well.

Thanks again for the replies.

D.

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