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Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

I notice that futureRSS uses "fopen" in its code. As our web host does not allow the use of "fopen", is there some way around this?

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

Yes. One of the first few lines in the script is this:

$cfg['fetch_method'] = "fopen"; // fopen, curl

Here you can set the script to use fopen or curl. Curl is an option that is considered by some to be more secure than fopen, and should work for you.

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

Tech Support wrote:

Yes. One of the first few lines in the script is this:

$cfg['fetch_method'] = "fopen"; // fopen, curl

Here you can set the script to use fopen or curl. Curl is an option that is considered by some to be more secure than fopen, and should work for you.

So would I replace $cfg['fetch_method'] = "fopen"; with $cfg['fetch_method'] = "curl"; ? And would there be anything else I would need to change/do?

I hope you'll forgive the seemingly dumb questions but I'm brand new at this.

With blessings,
Dal

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

Quote:

So would I replace $cfg['fetch_method'] = "fopen"; with $cfg['fetch_method'] = "curl"; ?

That should pretty much take care of it. You shouldn't need to do anything else.

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

If the RSS feed is a local file, such as "/home/username/example.com/feed.xml", and the future-rss script is in the same directory as "feed.xml" would the full path (as above) need to be entered or would simply "feed.xml" be sufficient?

With blessings,
Dal

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

Curl can't open files locally, only by using a full URL. So, you will need to give the full URL to your feed.xml file, as if you were accessing it from a browser.

Sorry. I probably should have mentioned that earlier.

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

No need for apology. The fault was mine in my last post. I neglected to mention that I have subsequently found out that my web host, while disabling fopen for *external* links (which mine isn't) still allows fopen for *internal* links (i.e. physically located on my web host). There was some confusion over this until someone on the Support Forum on my web host clarified this.

So... to sum up (and hopefully this will be of benefit to others) fopen *can* be used if the file is locally located (i.e. located on your web host)

However, I now have one other problem *sigh*... and my apologies for all your time that I'm taking up. I put the future-rss script into the same directory on my web host as the feed file, which is named saints.xml. I then edited the future-rss script to read $cfg["rss_feed"]='saints.xml'; and renamed the future-rss script to saints.php

The problem I'm now having is this: an error message comes up reading

"Error en http:// Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:06:18 -0700 Feed not found " when going to it via browser.

With blessings,
Dal

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

I should point out that the first item in the feed is scheduled for release on June 7. Whether this has anything to do with the error message, I don't know.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

Could you past your current version of your script (at least the beginning part) into a post so I can take a look?

Thanks.

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

# Script setup area
#-------------------------------------------

$cfg["rss_feed"]='saints.xml';

$cfg['fetch_method'] = "fopen"; // fopen, curl
$cfg['url_override'] = true; // Warning! security unsafe!
// use "url" parameter to pass RSS feed to script
// example: http://localhost/rss_proxy.php?url=

$cfg["filter_method"] = "time"; // time - display item if ITEM_TIME <= CURRENT_TIME
// date - display item if ITEM_TIME <= endOfDay(CURRENT_TIME)

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

No solution for this problem?

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2694

Sorry for the delay.

Can you possibly post the full URLs for both your futureRSS script, and your RSS feed file?

Thanks.

Dalriadan · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 13

http://www.saintfillans.org.nz/rss-saints/saints.xml (feed file)

http://www.saintfillans.org.nz/rss-saints/saints.php (futurerss)

payclicks · Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Posts: 1

Hey guys, I'm having the same problem as above - any word on how to fix it from this point?

Cheers!