Author Topic: rss block ? (Read 12191 times)

iain sherriff · « **on:** December 04, 2008, 10:05:06 AM »

smf 1.1.7
sp 2.1.1

so I have the rss block on my portal. www.uklows.com

but it doesnt sho anything?

i have put this in the URL bit of the block

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http://www.dragtimes.com/recent-drag-racing-times.rss/code]
and the block is ctive.

What have I missed ?
thanks

dougsbrat · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2008, 10:51:00 AM »

Nice racing site you are trying to pull the rss from

I added it to mine to test it and got

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XML error: Invalid character at line 68

in the block

I used

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http://www.dragtimes.com/recent-drag-racing-times.rss

for the feed

I even tried the
http://www.rss-to-javascript.com
solution I used before SP added RSS, and it failed too.

I would say its dragtimes feed that is at fault.

iain sherriff · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2008, 11:17:21 AM »

thanks for trying............

just tries ussing a BBC feed

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http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/sci/tech/rss.xml
that MUST be working ? but not on my page.

Checked that i've made edits in my theme [tho it doesnt work in default either].

what ele can it be ?

dougsbrat · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2008, 10:57:45 AM »

I tried BBC on mine...

main news area
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml

technology area
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/technology/rss.xml

science/nature area
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml

works here

I got a error using your rss link

iain sherriff · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2008, 04:52:11 AM »

ok, thanks.
can anyone suggest where i check for the fault ?
[nothing in the log]

dougsbrat · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2008, 11:09:05 AM »

that's strange..
I just tried your rss feed again
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/sci/tech/rss.xml

and it works today!

they could have had a problem caused by a story that WAS posting in the feed.

try it again

iain sherriff · « **Reply #6 on:** December 14, 2008, 11:11:52 AM »

put up a test site with smf 2.0 b4.
still no rss in SP ?
could it be a server setting?

dougsbrat · « **Reply #7 on:** December 14, 2008, 11:21:53 AM »

possably server setting..
also I use SMF 1.1.7 and RSS is fine

you might put up a "test SMF" with that 1.1.7 version to see if its that?
if it still does not work... its the server

jb3398 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2008, 09:42:16 PM »

http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/extremetechreviews.xml

dougsbrat can you take a look at my rss feed and tell me why it wont update. I was reading were you assisted ian and you seem pretty knowledgeable. if you can assist me it would be greatly appreciated.

dougsbrat · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2008, 10:34:33 PM »

I put your RSS link on mine to test..
it works!

but each post from it looks like there is a link that is not processed properly which ends as garbage.

like this

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ExtremetechExtremetech Reviews

The latest hard core technology reviews including graphics, video, cases, monitors, CPUs, Linux distros and more.
iClone 3 Pro Review
Make 3D rendered movies with an interface hauntingly similar to simply playing video games. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/WgKdsrntUNt9sZhTGZnydoV3l6E/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/WgKdsrntUNt9sZhTGZnydoV3l6E/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?a=RxJFUC7b"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?a=KGS6rFbl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?d=308" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?a=LYIduP0N"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?i=LYIduP0N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?a=WApuLswv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?i=WApuLswv" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavis.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?a=SVrdscK0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ziffdavis/ExtremetechReviews?d=43" border="0"/img/a /div

I also tried making a RSS using
http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/
to generate the java code, placed in a html block
works like a champ

here is the code if you dont want to do it your self
place this in a html block

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<script language="JavaScript" src="http://convert.rss-to-javascript.com/?chan=1&simple_chan=1&desc=1&desc_max=50&date=1&src=http%3A%2F%2Frssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com%2Fextremetechreviews.xml&target=new">
</script><noscript>Your browser does not support JavaScript. <a title='RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter' href=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/?p=151,381&chan=1&simple_chan=1&desc=1&desc_max=50&date=1&src=http%3A%2F%2Frssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com%2Fextremetechreviews.xml&target=new&as_html=1>Click to read the latest news</a>.</noscript>
 <a href=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com target=_blank title='RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter'><img src=http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/images/rss-to-jss-small.gif alt='RSS to JavaScript' border=0></a>

jb3398 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 31, 2008, 10:54:02 PM »

i placed it in an html block did not work

dougsbrat · « **Reply #11 on:** December 31, 2008, 11:03:47 PM »

strange since it did here

try going here http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/
and create the code yourself...
perhaps something was lost in the transfer (to here, to you)

[SiNaN] · « **Reply #12 on:** January 01, 2009, 08:49:23 AM »

Quote from: jb3398 on December 31, 2008, 09:42:16 PM

http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/extremetechreviews.xml

This works just perfect on my test install, with built-in RSS Feed Block.

dougsbrat · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2009, 09:57:09 AM »

FYI: I use SMF1.1.7

[SiNaN] · « **Reply #14 on:** January 01, 2009, 10:03:25 AM »

That doesn't matter, as that block does not depend on SMF functions.

dougsbrat · « **Reply #15 on:** January 01, 2009, 10:17:06 AM »

then prob. a server setting?

mine has 3 security settings
1 safe mode and other tight settings
2 safe Mode off and not as tight settings
3 wide open

1 SMF would not work properly at all
2 seams fine, but may be a issue that I have not noticed yet?
3 is just crazy

[SiNaN] · « **Reply #16 on:** January 01, 2009, 10:23:15 AM »

Any errors in the error log?

dougsbrat · « **Reply #17 on:** January 01, 2009, 10:48:25 AM »

yes a bunch!
there has always been many errors in the log on all SMF forums I have set up on any server, thought that was normal?

clearing them out, quick run around the forum and check error again there are many more.
and this one

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SPortal1-1.template.php (portal_below sub template - eval?)
Line: 58

[SiNaN] · « **Reply #18 on:** January 01, 2009, 10:51:46 AM »

That probably is not related to SP. Disable template eval and check it again.

What are the other errors?

dougsbrat · « **Reply #19 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:03:56 AM »

Quote from: Blue Dream on January 01, 2009, 10:51:46 AM

Disable template eval

this is new to me, where is this at?

jb3398 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:08:45 AM »

It works, I never said it didnt, however try getting it to update. That rss feed has been updated 3 times since I plugged in the url, however my page didnt update.

Quote from: Blue Dream on January 01, 2009, 08:49:23 AM

Quote from: jb3398 on December 31, 2008, 09:42:16 PM
http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/extremetechreviews.xml

This works just perfect on my test install, with built-in RSS Feed Block.

dougsbrat · « **Reply #21 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:14:58 AM »

I never noticed a update issue with the rss block,
but using the java code in a html I have!
some times its perfect, sometimes there is no feed in the block.

jb3398 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:58:10 AM »

can u plug that url into your rss block and see if it updates. a tech feed should update daily, but it has been 2 weeks and the same feeds.

dougsbrat · « **Reply #23 on:** January 01, 2009, 12:03:42 PM »

mine still looks a mess..
but I can tell that this is the latest feed it pulled

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