?How to use RSSMesh?

Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Christchurch NZ

Hi I've just downloaded and configured RSSmesh.php, but am unable to get it to work - how do you... use it, like, what do i put on a page, or link to get it to WORK!
There is no help file or documentation which goes with this script!

Cheers

TobyR

Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Christchurch NZ

By the way, if you want to checkout why it doesn't work here are where the files are stored...

http://www.thevoicebooth.com/rssMesh.php
http://www.thevoicebooth.com/rssMesh_SampleConfig.php
http://www.thevoicebooth.com/rssMesh_Template.xml
http://www.thevoicebooth.com/FeedForAll_Scripts_CachingExtension.php
http://www.thevoicebooth.com/thevoicebooth.xml

Cheers in advance!

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2586

thevoicebooth wrote:

Hi I've just downloaded and configured RSSmesh.php, but am unable to get it to work - how do you... use it, like, what do i put on a page, or link to get it to WORK!
There is no help file or documentation which goes with this script!

Cheers

TobyR

You have an error in your config file, that is causing the problem. I would suggest you rename it and use the config utility, rssMesh.php?buildConfig

Jim

Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

Hi
Just tried it as well, and not seem to work:

http://www.dancescape.com/feeds/rssMesh.php?CONFIGFILE=dsconfig.php

-------------------------------------
This was generated by the rssMesh.php?buildConfig

$useOutputCaching = 1;

$outputCacheTTL = 3600;

$XMLTemplate = "rssMesh_Template.xml";

$sortOutputByPubDate = 1;

$feedList = Array(

// Entry #1
Array("fileURL" => "http://rss.infozine.com/kc/dance.xml",
"itemCount" = > "4",
"feedTTL" => "3600"
)
,

// Entry #2
Array("fileURL" => "http://jobs.nytimes.com/careers/rss/jobs/?pbt=nytcategorytheater",
"itemCount" = > "4",
"feedTTL" => "3600"
)
,

// Entry #3
Array("fileURL" => "http://www.dancescape.com/feeds/dancescape_podcasts.xml",
"itemCount" = > "4",
"feedTTL" => "3600"
)
)

?>

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2586

DanceScape wrote:

Hi
Just tried it as well, and not seem to work:

http://www.dancescape.com/feeds/rssMesh.php?CONFIGFILE=dsconfig.php

-------------------------------------
This was generated by the rssMesh.php?buildConfig

$useOutputCaching = 1;

$outputCacheTTL = 3600;

$XMLTemplate = "rssMesh_Template.xml";

$sortOutputByPubDate = 1;

$feedList = Array(

// Entry #1
Array("fileURL" => "http://rss.infozine.com/kc/dance.xml",
"itemCount" = > "4",
"feedTTL" => "3600"
)
,

// Entry #2
Array("fileURL" => "http://jobs.nytimes.com/careers/rss/jobs/?pbt=nytcategorytheater",
"itemCount" = > "4",
"feedTTL" => "3600"
)
,

// Entry #3
Array("fileURL" => "http://www.dancescape.com/feeds/dancescape_podcasts.xml",
"itemCount" = > "4",
"feedTTL" => "3600"
)
)

?>

You are right.

Jim

Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 3

I noticed that when I set the count to 1 that it will show 2 items from the feed, but if I set the count to 0 then it only pulls one. Is this a bug in the rss mesh script?

Also since I am using content that is produced by writers working for me, I would like to by default insert an tag into each item that is the same throughout. Is there a way to do this? Is is something that can be done in the xml template or does it have to be done in the coding somewhere?

Thanks

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2586

VBrown wrote:

I noticed that when I set the count to 1 that it will show 2 items from the feed, but if I set the count to 0 then it only pulls one. Is this a bug in the rss mesh script?

I will look at that. I must be off by one in my counter

VBrown wrote:

Also since I am using content that is produced by writers working for me, I would like to by default insert an tag into each item that is the same throughout. Is there a way to do this? Is is something that can be done in the xml template or does it have to be done in the coding somewhere?

Thanks

Since the tag is part of the items it should be in the feeds your writers are producing. If that is too hard, you could edit line 327 to make it look like:

Code:

$this->ItemAuthor[] = "My writers";

This will always add "My writers" to all feeds used in rssMesh, until you upgrade the software. Then you will to do the edit again.

Jim