Topic: after installing...two block issues...calendar and news feed blocks

[troppmann]

1) I have enabled the Calendar Block but for the life of me cant figure out where you put stuff into it? anyone?

2) News Feed Block: I am trying to get the steam feed to be in there...
http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/news.xml
All i get are errors on ANY rss feed....error on line this or line that...anyone maybe have some insight into what the problem may be?

thank you in advance...for any help...i searched and i saw nothing....

[troppmann]

if you look at the portal you can see what i mean....

http://www.tfgn.org/index.php

[[SiNaN]]

1) You'll have to add them via Calendar. If you don't have it enabled, you can enable it via Admin > Calendar.

2) It's probably because the feed doesn't validate at all:

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstore.steampowered.com%2Ffeeds%2Fnews.xml

This should make it work though.

Sources/PortalBlocks.php

Code: (Find) [Select]

$xml_data = fetch_web_data($feed);

Code: (Replace) [Select]

$xml_data = fetch_web_data($feed);
loadClassFile('Class-Package.php');
$xml_array = new xmlArray($xml_data);
$xml_array = $xml_array->path('rdf:RDF[0]');

$items = array();
$counter = 0;
foreach ($xml_array->set('item') as $item)
{
$items[$counter] = array(
'title' => strip_tags($item->fetch('title')),
'content' => strip_tags($item->fetch('content:encoded')),
'href' => strip_tags($item->fetch('link')),
);
$items[$counter]['link'] = '<a href="' . $items[$counter]['href'] . '" target="_blank" class="new_win">' . $items[$counter]['title'] . '</a>';
$counter++;
}
/*

Code: (Find) [Select]

if (empty($items))
{
echo '
', $txt['error_sp_invalid_feed'];

Code: (Replace) [Select]

*/
if (empty($items))
{
echo '
', $txt['error_sp_invalid_feed'];

[troppmann]

Thank you for the reply....but a las it provides me with....

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '*' in /home/thefirmgn/tfgn.org/Sources/PortalBlocks.php  on line 1075

[[SiNaN]]

Can you check if you applied the edits correctly? If you are sure then attach your file here (edited one) and I'll fix it for you.

[troppmann]

you know, i thought i did....here is the file

[[SiNaN]]

And I asked for the edited file, but the edits I mentioned aren't there in the file you attached. Well, whatever, try the attached one.

[troppmann]

sorry, attached the wrong one....at any rate the adjustments made dont error the page but it does eliminate several other blocks and messes up the page....

i am thinking of dropping this block all together....

[[SiNaN]]

What do you mean by "it does eliminate several other blocks and messes up the page...."? A screenshot would help a lot.