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vanight

November 7th, 2004, 15:20

Hello,

I am new here and have been reviewing different products like Xaraya, LDU, and now I am looking at Mambo. I seem to be having a hard time translating what I am visualizing in my mind to an item in the Mambo control panel. For example I have an RSS link that allows one to display the weather.com box in various styles with the "zip code" form. Its a medium size box that can be horizontal or vertical. What I wanted was to simply have this "box" or item show up on the left or right side Vertically oriented just like the "poll" example include on the Themes or whatever thats included with Mambo. I tried for hours before giving up. I did at one point get it to show up a few links deep from the "news feed" button. See here: http://www.ebooks-free.net/index.php?option=com_newsfeeds&catid=67&Itemid=37

I am assuming that I must be missing something major here as I would think putting RSS feeds weather they be for News or weather anywhere you want on your site would be a basic function. Please, can someone tell me what I have missed? I would love to be able to run a key word driven top stories feed right on the front page but the examples given are "static" article you put in yourself.

Thanks!

Vanight

stingrey

November 7th, 2004, 18:01

Modules -> Site Modules -> Click New -> Parameters tab

vanight

November 9th, 2004, 11:11

Maybe if I ask this more directly it will be easier. What do I do to make an RSS news feed display its results on the front page. I have already bene to the area you described and in fact created multiple feeds, but, how you control where things appear is still confusing to me. How would I put the weather.com thing on the front page but on the right collum and appear right under the polls module.

Thanks!

toubkal

November 9th, 2004, 11:56

go to the module you made for the rss feed.

you will see there is a setting called position. The position setting is used to select the position that you want the module to appear in.

There is also a setting called ordering. If there is more than one module to appear in a given position you can use the setting called ordering to set the ordering of the module.

konlong

November 9th, 2004, 14:03

Maybe a mambot is what you need?

Give it a try, it is new so please inform me by pm if there is a problem.

{kl_rssfeed}full rssURL{/kl_rssfeed}

11/23/04
modified to add controls for printing Channel title and description as well as control for printing an items title or description

11/29/04
changed line 87 to:
print $matches[2].', '.$chtitle.', '.$chdesc.', '.$title.', '.$desc.', '.$items;

April 12 2005
kl_rssfeed is now available in the following thread:

http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?p=190159

konlong

November 23rd, 2004, 19:42

I have just uploaded a revised version of kl_rssfeed. This newer version allows for the suppression of the rss Chanel's title as well as it's description. Similar parameters are also present for an item or article.

John L

vanight

November 24th, 2004, 06:46

When you say upload do you mean the zip file posted in the post above 2 above this one?

Thanks!

vanight

November 24th, 2004, 07:12

Is there suppose to be some instructions for this?

vanight

November 24th, 2004, 07:26

I successfully upload and installed the Mambot. Now what?

Thanks,

Vanight

antonio

November 25th, 2004, 12:00

Konlang,

I'm trying to use your mambot ...

I know how mambots work...and it installed properly.

Can you please give a explanation as how to use it, I would appreciated.

{kl_rssfeed}full rssURL{/kl_rssfeed}

Thanks, Antonio

konlong

November 25th, 2004, 18:49

How about an example or two:

{kl_rssfeed}http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=new+york&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt{/kl_rssfeed}
or
{kl_rssfeed chdesc="0"desc="0"}http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=new+york&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt{/kl_rssfeed}

the second example suppresses the description from both the channel as well as the item.

John L

antonio

November 26th, 2004, 13:39

John,

Thanks for responding however the page is displaying a error.

I did exactly as you said...testing and including the code you provided into content like the below image displays.

Am I missing a step here?

When I publish, I get the below error:

"HTTP Exception: 1 HTTP Transport Error - Unable to establish connection to host news.search.yahoo.com"

Await your comments...thanks Antonio

eyezberg

November 29th, 2004, 08:44

Doesn't work, doesn't parse:
http://axelgap.free.fr/index.php?content/view/18/2/
tried with and without params..

konlong

November 29th, 2004, 12:35

eyezberg - I tried the examples on your link. The first one returned nothing, the second one: {kl_rssfeed items="5"debug="0"}http://www.flashguru.co.uk/FGMX101.rdf{/kl_rssfeed} gave:
# Honda Civic Racing
# Neuro Fuzzy - Flash Blog
# Preloaded Spy Games
# Flash 8 Information
# Awesome Racing Game

silly question, but did you enter the edit phase to publish the mambot?

John

konlong

November 29th, 2004, 12:37

antonio - Try the example located in my comment to eyezberg.

John

eyezberg

November 29th, 2004, 13:06

John,
do you think I'm stupid or what? Well, I am :D
Still haven't gotten used to having to publish bots now :(
Done, now I get errors:
Debug-KL_RSSFEED:
------
items="5"debug="1"
--

Warning: print_r() expects at most 2 parameters, 6 given in /var/www/free.fr/1/6/axelgap/mambots/content/kl_rssfeed.php on line 87

------
Debug-KL_RSSFEED:
------
items="5"debug="1"
--

Warning: print_r() expects at most 2 parameters, 6 given in /var/www/free.fr/1/6/axelgap/mambots/content/kl_rssfeed.php on line 87
Works when removing the debug param, mambojoe's forum feed does not display, have to check that in borwser..
COOL BOT, thanks! ;)
(/me stupid!)

konlong

November 29th, 2004, 19:07

Blush -- line 87 should have been:
print $matches[2].', '.$chtitle.', '.$chdesc.', '.$title.', '.$desc.', '.$items;

I will upload a newer version.

And the publishing difficulty with parameters would not be a problem had the installer been written to include parameters in the DB record at install time.

John L

Kadence

November 29th, 2004, 21:29

Very nice module :) However there seems to be a problem: if you simply put {kl_rssfeed}___feed-address___{/kl_rssfeed}, the page that the mambot is on doesn't work at all; you get a 404. You have to put some parameters in to get it to work. A minor inconvenience, but confusing at first.

sreeraj

December 1st, 2004, 02:48

eyezberg

December 1st, 2004, 03:26

I changed nothing, all "out-of-the-box"..?!
Or which site do you mean?

vanight

December 1st, 2004, 11:30

Could you possible give step by step instructions on how to use this? Not the installation part, the using part.

Thanks,

Vanight

vanight

December 1st, 2004, 11:31

More specifically could you show how to make a news feed show up on the front page of mambo listing all of the links and stuff in the center area?

Thanks,

Vanight

sreeraj

December 1st, 2004, 20:50

Kadence

December 2nd, 2004, 11:28

Can you please tell me what parameters are to be put into, inorder to get it worked?
Any parameters should do, e.g. {kl_rssfeed chdesc="0" desc="1"}.

bryon

January 9th, 2005, 01:06

Any parameters should do, e.g. {kl_rssfeed chdesc="0" desc="1"}.

i have tried it and it doesnt work. i am using mambo 4.5.1 and published kl_rssfeed.Somebody please tell us

konlong

January 9th, 2005, 03:53

Sorry, I have been missing this thread. I appreciate those who have given support for my work, but let us be reasonable. just saying that you are having difficulty with something is not sufficient, give an example of what it is that does not work. In the case of most mambots it should be easy enough to include the EXACT code you are trying to use. For kl_rssfeed it might just be that your feed link is incorrect. Any way it would let me as well as others test what you are attempting, and it may also give me ideas of what I might do to improve things.

Respectfully,
John

bryon

January 9th, 2005, 07:04

{kl_rssfeed chdesc="0"desc="0"}http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=new+york&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt{/kl_rssfeed} doesnt work

neither do other feed

gives message HTTP Exception: 1 HTTP Transport Error

thanks in advance

eyezberg

January 9th, 2005, 07:21

Not the bots fault, works fine for me:
http://axelgap.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=2
Only thing i added is items="5" and a space between your 2 other params..

bryon

January 9th, 2005, 08:08

i have tried the quick n dirty method by commenting out
<?php echo $currItem->getDescription(); ?> in includes/frontend.html.php and it does work but it wont span the rss feed orderly

hopefully the author of kl_rssfeed or a kind-hearted somebody will include a proper documentation
thank you

jjwe2002

January 18th, 2005, 14:05

Does Any Know if you Can Have multiple RSS feeds into one Module? If so, please let me know how to do it.

thanx

stingrey

January 18th, 2005, 16:22

Does Any Know if you Can Have multiple RSS feeds into one Module? Yous cant.

But you can create multiple modules each displaying different RSS feeds

zedo24

February 10th, 2005, 08:00

I'm trying to put an rss feed on my homepage. I've uploaded and installed the "kl_rssfeed" as I can see it in my "mambots". I published it but I don't know whrere I can specifie "{kl_rssfeed}http://.....".
I can't see it the modules part, only in Mambots...

I'm only starting to use mambot so I'm already say thank you to any help.

bryon

February 10th, 2005, 08:28

Quote:
Originally Posted by aducrejr
I am a newbie and I am not understanding how to use this bot I have it installed and published. If you can provide somw simple steps I would appreicate it. I am not sure were to insert that code

after reading a few mambots' coding, i came to realized u have to published this inside the coding section of a particular news item.

zedo24

February 10th, 2005, 13:19

Thanks for your help.

Now, I want my RSS feed to spread on 100% of the width of my homepage (not 50% like other news).
:confused: So, I just want all my news to appear on my homepage like usually and this RSS like a special news always at the bottom of my homepage. :confused:

I'm waiting for your usefull help

konlong

February 10th, 2005, 13:27

To have it at the bottom spanning the whole width including the left & right cols, is not possible with a 'content' mambot. It would be possible with modification of your template though.

John L

TheWraith

February 15th, 2005, 14:46

I'm having 2 problems with this mambot. First of all, this is what I have defined in a static content item:

{kl_rssfeed}http://mamboforge.net/export/rss_sfnews.php{/kl_rssfeed}

{kl_rssfeed}http://www.mamboportal.com/index2.php?option=com_rss&no_html=1{/kl_rssfeed}

{kl_rssfeed}http://www.mambohut.com/index2.php?option=com_rss&no_html=1{/kl_rssfeed}

Problem 1: CSS formatting is not consistent.

This is how my Mambo newsfeeds display normally:
http://www.packetmonkey.net/component/option,com_newsfeeds/task,view/feedid,27/Itemid,53/

This is how they display with the kl_rssfeed:
http://www.packetmonkey.net/content/view/44/118/

The font and link formatting is off. The bullet points are overlapped, etc. I've tinkered through the radio options in the mambot with no success.

Problem 2: Regular Mambo Newsfeeds for same information "broken".

Since putting the Mamboforge, Mambohut, and Mamboportal RSS feeds into a static content item with the kl_rssfeed mambot, these feeds no longer display correctly with my Mambo Newsfeed links:
http://www.packetmonkey.net/component/option,com_newsfeeds/catid,66/Itemid,53/

Click on each of those three feeds - blank. So, displaying them in static content breaks normal viewing.

TheWraith

February 15th, 2005, 14:51

Problem 3: Channel titles not displayed or linked correctly.

----------------------------------
Display channel title: Yes
Display channel description: No
Display item title: Yes
Display item description: No
Max number of items: 20
Wrap the results in a span: Yes
debug: No
----------------------------------

The first RSS newsfeed title (MamboForge Project News) displays and links fine. The 2nd and 3rd RSS titles are both "Powered by Mambo 4.5.1" and link to:

http://<mydomain>/Mamboportal.com%20-%20A%20Mambo%20Open%20Source%20CMS%20Fansite

~ and ~

http://<mydomain>.net/MAMBO%20HUT%20::%20Mambo%20Templates%20Showcase

Error in action:
http://www.packetmonkey.net/content/view/44/118/

konlong

February 15th, 2005, 19:15

TheWraith -- try posting the feed as a URL to see what the XML looks like, there is a reason RSS titles do not look right. Take this feed :
http://www.mamboportal.com/index2.php?option=com_rss&no_html=1

You will see, if you compare it with a feed which 'works', that the link tag for the title is not in the form of a URL.

As for the problem you cite of the feeds not working in a module after you use the mambot is certainly puzzeling, but I have an idea which I will look into.

BTW; have you cranked up error reporting to see if there might be a hint?

John

TheWraith

February 15th, 2005, 20:56

I'll try combing some non-Mambo feeds to see what the output is. But, I'll also enable debug on viewing the regular Newsfeeds and report it's data.

(shortly)

TheWraith

February 15th, 2005, 21:02

This is from the URL with the Mambohut RSS:
http://www.packetmonkey.net/component/option,com_newsfeeds/task,view/feedid,18/Itemid,53/

88 queries executed

1
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TheWraith

February 15th, 2005, 21:05

NEVER MIND on the issue with built-in Newsfeeds not displaying. I noticed the three Mambo-related RSS items were all labeled as "Checked out" and once I did a "Global check-in", they began working.

Frankly, I think that "checkout" feature needs to go away and be replaced with some manual "lock for editing" checkbox that is clicked/unclicked by the author.

I still have the issue of the formatting of the feed output, however. Text overlapping bullets, must not be paying attention to CSS. Would be nice to have a "Module Class Suffix:" type field to provide specific CSS like the modules have.

konlong

February 16th, 2005, 05:40

I still have the issue of the formatting of the feed output, however. Text overlapping bullets, must not be paying attention to CSS. Would be nice to have a "Module Class Suffix:" type field to provide specific CSS like the modules have.
Would it help to have the feed wrapped in a div ( <div class="xxx"> ) and then have this same class show up in each tag?

John

TheWraith

February 16th, 2005, 09:21

I'll say, "I suppose so", not really knowing if that is the solution or not. Somehow, regular content is wrapped <in some way> and what I'd like to see is the RSS bot behaving in the same way, looking the same, etc.

dwessell

February 16th, 2005, 17:58

Beetle Bailey

February 22nd, 2005, 09:31

I would like to give a big THANK YOU to kolong for the mambot! I have tried every method under the sun to get an RSS feed to showup on the frontpage and NOTHING worked. I absolutely love mambo, but this one thing was driving me nut's.

I do have a couple of question's regarding tweaking the display format. If you view my website at www.88thinfantry.net you can see the current feed (this will change in the future), but what i need to know is how do I change the following:

1. How do I make the font's bigger so the links and summaries are easier to read.

2. The summary tends to wrap the text back around on the left side before the story link. How can I make them line up better so it looks cleaner.

3. How do I set the story summary to start wrapping a few characters before it currently does?

4. How do I have the summary description include more words?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks again Kolong for the mambot, I have already shared it with a ton of people who where trying to accomplish the same thing!

Herr Rau

February 22nd, 2005, 10:41

The mambot works beautifully for me. Just one thing: Is there any way I can display (on my Mambo site) the complete content of an item in an rss feed? That is, I don't want to just publish the 50-word-description (or however long it is), but the complete text of the news item, the one in the <content:encoded> tag.

konlong

February 22nd, 2005, 16:59

{kl_rssfeed chdesc="0"desc="1"}http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss{/kl_rssfeed}
{kl_rssfeed chdesc="0"desc="1"}http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/fp_rss20.xml{/kl_rssfeed}
{kl_rssfeed chdesc="0"desc="1"}http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml{/kl_rssfeed}
{kl_rssfeed chdesc="0"desc="1"}http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml{/kl_rssfeed}

Heyas all. Each of these feeds have more then one story, but only one shows up on the page. I know I'm missing something basic here, can someone point me in the right direction?
Yes in the admin for the mambot set "Max number of items:" to something greater than 1.

John L

Watch this thread, I am about to put up a new version which uses a user specified class to be applied to the various tags generated. The default class is "kl_rssfeed"

konlong

February 22nd, 2005, 17:47

I have uploaded a new version of kl_rssfeed, available on the first page of this thread.

Improvements:
1) will remove itself from content if not published
2) user may now specify the class to be used for the generated HTML tags
3) information button made available for each parameter, which supplies the name of the parameter. The parameter name may be used as an attribute in the individual tag to override the parameter setting.

Enjoy!!

John L

TheWraith

February 23rd, 2005, 11:21

konlong,

Wouldn't it be best to put all your work up at Mamboforge.net so people can find it easier? I know each time someone asks me about RSS newsfeeds it seems odd I have to come search this forum for the latest ZIP file. I would think you'd want a nice central repository for your efforts.

TheWraith

February 23rd, 2005, 12:31

Also, konglong...

I'm not sure what version of your Mambo I'm using because you didn't apparently define a version in the XML - which I would suggestion, but the creation date in the XML states: 09/11/2004

I assume the version I'm using (which serves me well) isn't the most up to date. My question is whether you have addressed a formatting issue in your most up-to-date version. See examples below:

Built-in Mambo Newsfeed component:
http://packetmonkey.net/postimages/rss-mambo.png

Konlong Mambot:
http://packetmonkey.net/postimages/rss-konlong.png

As you can see with item descriptions enabled, with your kl_rssfeed mambot, the bulletpoint doesn't line up properly with the Item title, and centers itself between title and description. Have you found this disparity in your own tests or do I have my personal CSS hacks to blame?

The HTML between the two versions seems identical, no changes in any DIV class names, etc. So, it should be using the same CSS information. Any idea what is causing the display issue?

Edit: Never mind. Found a CSS issue...

whetu

March 12th, 2005, 20:50

I've just been having a play with this mambot and it seems to be going great so far, I was initially having problems with an RSS2 feed with an .xml extension not showing, then I was having random spacing issues. So I checked out the page source and noticed some unneccessary code being injected into the mambot output.

So you know what they say - garbage in, garabage out, the extra code had to be coming from somewhere.

So from within the admin UI, I edited the content item containing the mambot code, all looked fine, so I switched from wysiwyg view to edit html view and noticed a whole bunch of strong tags

So, I suspect that whenever I edited and tweaked the code using wysiwyg, say to enter items="5" for example, the wysiwyg editor was dumping in extra strong tags eg
{kl_rssfeed items="5"chdesc="0"desc="0"}http://www.example.com/rss/rssrules2.xml{/kl_rssfeed}
which would then throw off the rendering, by removing the extra strong tags:
{kl_rssfeed items="5"chdesc="0"desc="0"}http://www.example.com/rss/rssrules2.xml{/kl_rssfeed}
All becomes right.

After doing that, the RSS2 feed I was having trouble with kicked into life, and we're away laughing :)

kenjiman

April 9th, 2005, 05:50

Great mambot konlong.

Im trying to find a way to display source and pubDate for a xml file that looks like the snippet below from your mambot, but I think this adjustment would be in one of the domit files... but cant seem to find it.

Anyone know how I would go about doing this?

<item>
<title>Dubbla förluster för Williams</title>
<description>Dubbla förluster för Williams</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:17:02 +0200</pubDate>
<link>http://www.nyhetsportalen.se/visa.php?i=817704&rss=1</link>
<source url="http://sydsvenskan.se/">Sydsvenskan</source>
</item>

konlong

April 12th, 2005, 13:13

I can certainly build this in to kl_rssfeed. I will have a new version up by tomorrow which provides such an option, as well as showing the channels image.

John L

konlong

April 12th, 2005, 18:22

kl_rssfeed is now available in the following thread:

http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?p=190159

John L

gmbcom

June 27th, 2005, 23:40

I've tried the mambot, but I get everytime a faillure:
Warning: Division by zero in /home/virtual/site89/fst/var/www/html/includes/pageNavigation.php on line 92

Warning: Division by zero in /home/virtual/site89/fst/var/www/html/includes/pageNavigation.php on line 93

What goes wrong?

konlong

June 29th, 2005, 07:41

gmbcom - Please post your question in the thread menioned in my previous post. Also when you post indicate which version of mambo you are using AND the complete text of your use of the mambot.

gmbcom

June 30th, 2005, 00:08

John, I don't know what you mean. Wich previous post should I use? And is my question clear to you? Why can't you answer my question here?
My site www.gertbrouwer.nl uses Mambo 451. I've tried your mambot, but got everytime the faillure I wrote. I used you're latest mambot. What should I do? I don't want to upgrade my site to 452.

konlong

July 1st, 2005, 16:44

John, I don't know what you mean. Wich previous post should I use? And is my question clear to you? Why can't you answer my question here?

While this thread has often been a discussion regarding my kl_rssfeed mambot it is a thread that was started by another individule. I first introduced the mambot here, but have since moved it to http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?p=190159
which is my own thread and it is my preference to support my work through threads I have started.

As to your problem, all you have presented is an error report, if I am to answer or seek to help you in any way I politely request that you present the code you are using to call the mambot. In this way I, or anyone else can run a test of your particular implementation and then perhaps present an answer.

ramidotcom

October 3rd, 2005, 18:24

konlong, can you tell me how to set the story to diplay the whole text of the artice, not just the short 50 or so word description?

konlong

October 3rd, 2005, 18:47

The whole text of the story is not available in an rssfeed, there is a link that points to the original article, but that link is to fairly ornate HTML pages. However if you want the full text of the description then set the parameter which controls the number of words to some fairly large value.

ramidotcom

October 3rd, 2005, 19:18

konling, i tried that, it doesn work.. thnx for your reply

alfred

January 3rd, 2006, 12:48

Dear Konlong,
First, thank you very much for your script + kl_php. :)
I've a question that you would maybe answer : do you know how to link kl_rssfeed to a mysql database where all the link would be stored ?
for example, we can have today {kl_rssfeed}http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=new+york&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt{/kl_rssfeed}
Do you know how to have something like :
{kl_rssfeed}Mysql_link01{/kl_rssfeed} where "Mysql_link01" indicate an entry in a mysql database (and so get for the next rss something like "Mysql_link02" , "Mysql_link03" , etc.
Thanks for all
Alfred