I’ve got this running but I am having issues trying to get the style to work on the browser.
I have it set on the html item in freeway with a style sheet .feedjs2. But the style is not as it should be in any browser.
Any thoughts?
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Could you post a new link to the page where you have the news feed showing? Your old one is still the broken (no-link) version.
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On Feb 18, 2013, at 10:33 AM, tonzodehoo wrote:
I’ve got this running but I am having issues trying to get the style to work on the browser.
I have it set on the html item in freeway with a style sheet .feedjs2. But the style is not as it should be in any browser.Any thoughts?
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Hello Walter, it’s the same one as before.
Not sure why its not working for you. What link were you trying to access?
The one I am working on is this one:
Which is the same as before. Let me know.
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I was looking at your demo link as posted here – test.html – not the index page.
You need to look through the styles defined here:
http://cdn.freewaypro.com/feed2js/0.1.1/feed2js.css
If you create styles within your page that exactly match the selector portions of these styles, they should override the ones that are set in this stylesheet, because they are effectively “closer” to the items they match. (This is the first C in CSS – the Cascade – in action.)
If that doesn’t work for some reason, then you can make your rules more specific by prefixing them with the ID of the container element. In this case, it would be #item4, so a rule with the selector #item4 .feed2js a.rss-item would overpower a rule with the selector .feed2js a.rss-item no matter where that latter rule was defined. You can find the ID of the parent element by clicking once on the HTML box that you applied Feed2JS to and looking in the Title (Freeway < 6) or Name / ID (Freeway 6) field in the Inspector.
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On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:03 AM, tonzodehoo wrote:
Hello Walter, it’s the same one as before.
Not sure why its not working for you. What link were you trying to access?
The one I am working on is this one:Which is the same as before. Let me know.
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Back onto this again and trying to get the links working from the feed2js action.
Does anyone have a similar story at all?
I see what you mean Walter re the default href in the links. I was wondering where the href is generated at all and if that may narrow down the issue a bit.
Still at the same test page:
http://www.thegorbals.co.uk/test.html
I’d like to use the feed2js action a few more times but would like to make sure it functions as it should.
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The href is created by Feed2JS, which converts the RSS feed item’s tag into a proper URL. The last time I looked at this, the feed was valid, and each item had a link. I haven’t been able to get your feed to work properly, but I also have had no trouble reading other feeds.
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On Feb 27, 2013, at 4:59 AM, tonzodehoo wrote:
Back onto this again and trying to get the links working from the feed2js action.
Does anyone have a similar story at all?
I see what you mean Walter re the default href in the links. I was wondering where the href is generated at all and if that may narrow down the issue a bit.
Still at the same test page:
http://www.thegorbals.co.uk/test.htmlI’d like to use the feed2js action a few more times but would like to make sure it functions as it should.
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The mystery continues…
In the feed2js code the href is _self.
Should this be maybe a link to the actual thread?
I am quite literally clutching at threads here!
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Is there any chance at all that you have set the description length to a negative number? There’s a note in the PHP that converts the feed that that’s a way to un-link the headers…
Walter
On Feb 27, 2013, at 10:33 AM, tonzodehoo wrote:
The mystery continues…
In the feed2js code the href is _self.
Should this be maybe a link to the actual thread?I am quite literally clutching at threads here!
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Hello Walter,
No its set at 3.
If I had a working example of the feed2js then I could make a comparison and try to resolve this myself but as its the first time I’ve used this then I really am unsure as to what the issue is.
Should the href be set to _self?
Is it maybe a .htaccess issue?
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On Feb 28, 2013, at 4:32 AM, tonzodehoo wrote:
Hello Walter,
No its set at 3.
If I had a working example of the feed2js then I could make a comparison and try to resolve this myself but as its the first time I’ve used this then I really am unsure as to what the issue is.
Should the href be set to _self?
Is it maybe a .htaccess issue?
No and no. The problem is happening somewhere inside php2js.php, not your feed or any aspect of your server. I can duplicate the issue here, but since I didn’t write that code, I am not sure where to start digging to find the culprit. Your feed properly sets the URL for the link, and your feed is valid. php2js.php properly converts other feeds (which are also valid) into linked headlines, as designed. But it’s not doing so for yours. These are the facts at hand, but the real deep-seated reason for this result is not apparent.
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Hello again Walter,
I cam across the magpie rss script and I am trying to assess if this may be the key to getting these links working at all?
Is it necessary to have to install magpierss in order for the feed2js to function? Should I dabble with this?
It does appear to be part of the setup but I’m not sure if I require extra work to use this in tandem with the feed2js.
Let me know if this make sense.
All the best for now
Anthony
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If you’re going to try Magpie, then you should use it – alone – to get your feeds. The feed2js script is not the same thing, and you can’t combine them.
Walter
On Mar 14, 2013, at 6:43 PM, tonzodehoo wrote:
Hello again Walter,
I cam across the magpie rss script and I am trying to assess if this may be the key to getting these links working at all?
Is it necessary to have to install magpierss in order for the feed2js to function? Should I dabble with this?
It does appear to be part of the setup but I’m not sure if I require extra work to use this in tandem with the feed2js.Let me know if this make sense.
All the best for nowAnthony
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Ok, thanks for clearing that up.
I guess I had hoped to have managed to have resolved the issue with the non linking feeds by now but much as I’ve scrabbled about i the dark I am no further forward.
I’ve come back round to the start and am looking for a way to get the feeds from the php forum setup to appear on the front page of a website in a box with the headlines and details like what I’d hoped feed2js would do.
Are there any other options at all to help me achieve this?
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I meant to say that the reason I came across the magpie rss is that its mentioned as being used in the feed2js code.
I assumed they were connected in some way.
Is there any reason it is mentioned within the feed2js code at all?
Thanks for your patience.
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Magpie is a XML parsing library for PHP, and it is in feed2js, now that you mention it. I didn’t remember it until you pointed that out just now. When I built the Action, I concatenated all of the PHP code together in a single file to cut down on the number of resources needed in the Action, so it’s entirely possible that I messed something up there in that process.
The thing is, it seems to work, in almost any setting I have tried it in – several client sites so far – and so what is happening in your particular blogger example is a mystery to me.
Walter
On Mar 14, 2013, at 7:14 PM, tonzodehoo wrote:
I meant to say that the reason I came across the magpie rss is that its mentioned as being used in the feed2js code.
I assumed they were connected in some way.
Is there any reason it is mentioned within the feed2js code at all?Thanks for your patience.
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No and no. The problem is happening somewhere inside php2js.php, not your feed or any aspect of your server.
Walter
Thanks for getting back to me.
Just wanted to check what php2js.php is? I can’t find it anywhere to see if I can find anything of interest in there.
I had a look at the test page again:
http://www.thegorbals.co.uk/test.html
Where I’d also set up the feed2js set up and lo and behold it doesn’t link back to the forum either.
I am getting a bit more of an insight into things here and although I don’t understand all the coding details I am getting and idea as to how they all link up so I’m hoping by resolving this that it will further improve this understanding.
This is the html for the link from one of the items in the feed.php
class=“rss-item” href=“” target=“_self”>Anecdotes gathered in 2013 • Re: On the Streets where you lived
I was wondering what the _self part refers to at all and whether within this html should there not be a ref to a link to the actual forum item?
Its a long shot but I need tae keep shooting!
Thanks again
Anthony
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_self is not important here. All that means is “load the link into the current window” (as opposed to _blank, which would open a new window). The issue is that the href is blank. Since there is a attribute in the originating RSS XML file – a valid link that goes somewhere – and it’s not getting translated into the href as it should, then there is something going wrong inside the conversion script. But – and here’s the big one – other feeds (also valid) are properly converted. Since I cannot see the difference between the working and failing cases, I can’t track down why it might be happening.
Walter
On Mar 15, 2013, at 3:32 AM, tonzodehoo wrote:
No and no. The problem is happening somewhere inside php2js.php, not your feed or any aspect of your server.
Walter
Thanks for getting back to me.
Just wanted to check what php2js.php is? I can’t find it anywhere to see if I can find anything of interest in there.
I had a look at the test page again:
http://www.thegorbals.co.uk/test.htmlWhere I’d also set up the feed2js set up and lo and behold it doesn’t link back to the forum either.
I am getting a bit more of an insight into things here and although I don’t understand all the coding details I am getting and idea as to how they all link up so I’m hoping by resolving this that it will further improve this understanding.
This is the html for the link from one of the items in the feed.php
class=“rss-item” href=“” target=“_self”>Anecdotes gathered in 2013 • Re: On the Streets where you lived
I was wondering what the _self part refers to at all and whether within this html should there not be a ref to a link to the actual forum item?
Its a long shot but I need tae keep shooting!
Thanks again
Anthony
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Hi all,
I apologise for the late entry into this discussion and also for veering ever so slightly off topic, but being a plug and play kind of guy, I went about the whole creating feeds thing (and again thanks for your advice at the time Walt), but in the end pulling photos and formatting was beyond my terribly meager skills. (I am working on them, but I’m not even at “beginner” level yet as a code person.)
My solution was to take out a subscription at www.rssinclude.com and have made very good use of their service - not very satisfying from a DIY perspective, but the results were quick and easy albeit at an annual cost. Although I am pushing the limits of this service with more than 300 feeds and growing…
Here’s an example http://citydailyphoto.org/latest.html
Now to get back on topic, Walt have any of the feed actions progressed to the point where I could use them as the basis of producing this from scratch (php book in hand of course)? Eventually I will have to take my life into my own hands.
Cheers,
Peter
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If you had all of the feeds in an RSS (not Atom) feed, you could probably build this page with the ReadFeed Action. I say probably because you would need to do some hand-coding in the template and variables code. But of the two I have written, that is the most “hackable”. That said, it is the most fragile, acting as a canary in the coal mine for the slightest whisper of non-standard or Atom-like code. But you say you are consuming hundreds of feeds – that’s not going to work with either of the Actions – they are designed to accept a single feed each and generate a single HTML element from it.
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On Mar 16, 2013, at 7:33 AM, PeterH wrote:
Hi all,
I apologise for the late entry into this discussion and also for veering ever so slightly off topic, but being a plug and play kind of guy, I went about the whole creating feeds thing (and again thanks for your advice at the time Walt), but in the end pulling photos and formatting was beyond my terribly meager skills. (I am working on them, but I’m not even at “beginner” level yet as a code person.)
My solution was to take out a subscription at www.rssinclude.com and have made very good use of their service - not very satisfying from a DIY perspective, but the results were quick and easy albeit at an annual cost. Although I am pushing the limits of this service with more than 300 feeds and growing…
Here’s an example http://citydailyphoto.org/latest.html
Now to get back on topic, Walt have any of the feed actions progressed to the point where I could use them as the basis of producing this from scratch (php book in hand of course)? Eventually I will have to take my life into my own hands.
Cheers,
Peter
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Thanks again Walt, sadly (or perhaps fortunately for me) many of the feeds are in Atom format, and with so many contributors to administer, I’m flat out just making sure I can “see” thumbnails from them all!
But perhaps sometime in the future…
The clincher for me (in deciding to give up doing it myself) is that the feed “box” auto updates, bringing the latest feeds to the top as well.
I am sure there are other solutions, just not so sure what they are (Drupal for instance may do it?), and presently it’s not “broke”.
cheers,
Peter
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