~FeedTitle~

Justin · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 4

Hi and Happy New Year :)!

How can RSS2HTMLPro be used to display only one record if there are duplicate ItemTitles and/or ItemSourceURLs from the RSSmesh created feed?

On a good day, I might be able to pull off something like this with my limited knowledge of PERL, but, unfortunately, I am currently PHP stupid.

Thanks!

Justin =)

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

Justin wrote:

Hi and Happy New Year :)!

How can RSS2HTMLPro be used to display only one record if there are duplicate ItemTitles and/or ItemSourceURLs from the RSSmesh created feed?

On a good day, I might be able to pull off something like this with my limited knowledge of PERL, but, unfortunately, I am currently PHP stupid.

Thanks!

Justin =)

I am sure it can be done, but I will have to think about that some.

Jim

Justin · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 4

MacSupport wrote:

I am sure it can be done, but I will have to think about that some.

Okey doke. Thanks for the prompt reply. Looking forward to a possible solution.

Justin =)

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

Justin wrote:

MacSupport wrote:

I am sure it can be done, but I will have to think about that some.

Okey doke. Thanks for the prompt reply. Looking forward to a possible solution.

Justin =)

This should do it for you, will check both title and link

Code:

$titleArray = Array();
$linkArray = Array();
?>

?
? ?
? ? ~~~FeedTitle~~~
?
?
? ?

~FeedTitle~

? ?

~~~FeedDescription~~~

? ?

? ?
? ? ? ~~~BeginItemsRecord~~~
$okayToDisplay = 1;

//
// Add the current item title and link to the arrays
$titleArray[] = "~~~ItemTitle~~~";
$linkArray[] = "~~~ItemLink~~~";

for ($x = 0; $x < count($titleArray)-1; $x++) {
? //
? // Look to see if there were previously used.
? if (("~~~ItemTitle~~~" == $titleArray[$x]) || ("~~~ItemLink~~~" == $linkArray[$x])) {
? ? $okayToDisplay = 0;
? ? break;
? }
}

if ($okayToDisplay == 1) {
?>
? ? ?
? ? ?
? ? ?
? ? ?
}
?>
? ? ? ~~~EndItemsRecord~~~
? ?

~~~ItemPubShortDate~~~ ~~~ItemPubShortTime~~~

~~~ItemTitle~~~

~~~ItemDescription~~~

?

Jim

Justin · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 4

Looks very graceful. Thanks so much, Jim!

Couple more quick questions, if you don't mind:

In PHP, does the double-pipe (the "||" in the first "if" condition) signify an AND or an OR operation? Or something else? Right now, I only need one, and not both title and url, to match. I guess I could just replace the double-pipe with the "or" syntax? Or an "and" if I later do need both?

Also, are the title compares case insensitive? If not, how would I do that?

Thanks again!

Justin =)

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

Justin wrote:

Looks very graceful. Thanks so much, Jim!

Couple more quick questions, if you don't mind:

In PHP, does the double-pipe (the "||" in the first "if" condition) signify an AND or an OR operation? Or something else? Right now, I only need one, and not both title and url, to match. I guess I could just replace the double-pipe with the "or" syntax? Or an "and" if I later do need both?

Also, are the title compares case insensitive? If not, how would I do that?

Thanks again!

Justin =)

Like C

|| = logical or
&& = logical and

For just title use

Code:

if ("~~~ItemTitle~~~" == $titleArray[$x]) {

The compare is an exact compare, include spacing and case. To do case insensitive comare

Code:

if (strcasecmp("~~~ItemTitle~~~", $titleArray[$x]) == 0) {

Jim

Justin · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 4

Great. So using "||" will match and not display succeeding records with either a title or url match (which is what I want) and I can change it to "&&" later if I want to filter out records that have both title and url matches?

Thanks for the "strcasecmp" syntax for case insensitive.

Justin =)

MacSupport · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2805

Justin wrote:

Great. So using "||" will match and not display succeeding records with either a title or url match (which is what I want) and I can change it to "&&" later if I want to filter out records that have both title and url matches?

Thanks for the "strcasecmp" syntax for case insensitive.

Justin =)

You are welcome

Jim

mkp · Joined: 01 Sep 2010 Posts: 6

I would like to point out that Macsupport has been doing a really wonderful job through this blog. I am an IT student and I am a regular reader of this blog. Needless to say I have learned a lot through it. Right now I am taught about RSS2HTMLPro in the class. But I have learned more about it through this blog rather than from the class. I would like to specifically thank Macsupport for sharing his knowledge with us.