[contrib] Textpattern Planet

Destry · 2006-08-11 10:42:18

Love this idea, Bert. TextBook has two feeds that would probably be appropriate when the time comes.

If you need to specifically discuss TxB feeds for whatever reason…here be the place.

hcgtv · 2006-08-11 14:09:58

colak, ma_smith – thanks for the links, I’ll look them over.

Destry – I’m slowly gathering all the feeds together, thanks for the heads up on TextBook.

sthmtc – I may have a design hitting my mailbox soon, I’ll contact you if I need your help, thanks.

hcgtv · 2006-08-11 18:50:32

reid wrote:

You might look at using RSS Fetch ( download zip ). I’ve got a Txp install I use as my browser’s home page, and use RSS fetch to bring in several feeds, as individual chunks. It’s fairly easy and configurable.

I tried this script and most every Textpattern site gives me: No item elements found in rss feed.

The only site that works is Textpattern Resources, maybe Alicson did something different there?

Mary · 2006-08-11 19:01:17

Lemme know when you’re up and running, and I’ll make sure there are links to it from the forum, main site, etc.

hcgtv · 2006-08-11 19:11:08

Mary, I’m going down the line and testing different scripts and plugins at the moment.

I’ll let you know when it’s done, thanks.

reid · 2006-08-11 23:55:32

hcgtv wrote:

I tried this script and most every Textpattern site gives me: No item elements found in rss feed.

Was that the Atom feed or RSS? I don’t think it does Atom.

hcgtv · 2006-08-12 00:50:27

This is what I’ve come up with so far:

The bit_rss plugin (0.2.3) appears to be the best option, at least when it comes to Textpattern sites.

This is the RSS form that I’m using on my local test site:
<code>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
<br />
<txp:posted /> by <txp:bit_author />
</code>

I’m displaying the last 5 entires from each of the RSS feeds, not all of them are displaying the same info.

Site Description / feed link – Title – Posted – Author – Notes

Developer Weblog – yes – yes – yes – looks good
SVN Timeline – yes – yes – no – the trac feed doesn’t have an author
Textpattern Support Forum – yes – no – no – rss.php does feed the right date and an author could be added

FAQ [Frequent questions and problems] – yes – yes – yes – looks good
TextBook [New pages] – yes – yes – yes – the files are rather large
TextBook [Recent changes] – yes – yes – yes – the files are rather large

Textpattern Resources [Plugins, etc] – yes – no – no – alicson?
TextGarden [Packaged designs] – yes – no – no – stuart?
TXP Magazine – yes – no – no – alex?

I have 9 feeds, planning on one page with a 3×3 grid. The above order is fine?

I’ve already crashed my local Apache a couple of times while refreshing the feeds, maximum execution time exceeded. I think it may be choking on the TextBook files, they are each 122KB in size.

I’ve got it set to refresh every 30 minutes, planning on putting the last time refreshed on the page or maybe when the next refresh should occur, keep the F5’s at bay.

Will keep at, the plumbing is in place, now the walls ;)

Destry · 2006-08-12 05:53:40

hcgtv wrote:

I think it may be choking on the TextBook files, they are each 122KB in size.

I’ll look into it, Bert. Maybe Hakjoon can give me another set of eyes too. Do you think this has anything to do with having too many returns in the feeds? Say if we reduced output from it’s default of like 25 or whatever it is to just 10? Or is this something with the feed file itself?

EDIT 1: Actually, looking at the feed files I realize my questions are probably one of the same thing. Maybe if we reduce the output number and the extent of the content (like to just an excerpt of a page, rather than a whole page) that would help. I’m not sure how to do that, exactly, but I’ll investigate.

EDIT 2: Mozilla Developer Center (which uses MediaWiki) has a couple of RSS extensions that might prove useful.

EDIT 3: Upon closer investigation, it may be something here that proves helpful. OK, nuff talk, tinker time.

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hcgtv · 2006-08-12 06:14:29

Destry, I don’t know what can be done but they are pretty big. How about different feeds just for the planet site and keep you current feeds alone?

Help, I had a test site going fine on my laptop. I uploaded the site to my VPS and it can’t find any of the feeds that are hosted on Textdrive. I thought the plugin went fubar on the VPS and installed Simplepie’s own Textpattern plugin and I got the same issues.

The plugins do work after more tests, cause I can read feeds off the Textpattern sites on my own VPS and I can read Simplepie’s own weblog feed.

Is Textdrive blocking IP ranges, servers from certain states, etc.

Edit: Tried Destry’s site feed (wion.com) and I can’t get to it, it’s hosted on Textdrive :(

Edit 2: I think it’s something to do with the User Agent string in Simplepie.

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Destry · 2006-08-12 11:55:14

hgctv wrote: Edit: Tried Destry’s site feed (wion.com) and I can’t get to it, it’s hosted on Textdrive :(

For what it’s worth, I’m using Adrew’s clean feed plugin, which itself works fine, but I’ve noticed that my feeds are on- and off-line from time to time, I never really know why.

On a diff note:

Looking at what appears to be the latest version of an RSS extension for MediaWiki, NIffler/RSS, I think I’m seeing this as something that allows a wiki owner to pull feeds into the wiki, much like what Bert is doing with TxPlanet. Am I wrong? (So in affect it won’t help me with my large file problem, but opens a different window of opportunity.)

What this would suggest is that the wiki — or rather a particular place in the wiki, like the built-in Community Portal page — could in fact be used as the platform for what TxPlanet is aiming for. Am I wrong again? By no means am I trying to derail the efforts here so far, but it looks like by using…

…then a page in the wiki can serve exactly as an external feeds pool.

We can investigate it further if you continue to have complications. It would at least eliminate the TxB feeds problem of size. I’ll ask hakjoon to help me at least play with it to see if it’s even feasible. If we ever went this way, Bert, we could add you as a new wiki admin and you could manage the feeds portal. As a heads-up, we are looking to put the wiki under subversion too (it’s in the works), which is aimed at safeguarding our custom mods, like this would be. Just a thought.

Last edited by Destry (2006-08-12 12:00:47)

hcgtv · 2006-08-12 17:12:28

Like I mentioned above, I had the site working fine locally and it’s fubar on my VPS.

Textdrive is not blocking SimplePie, cause the demo on their site can pull in every feed that I’m trying to reach. So it’s not the useragent string that I thought was the problem.

I can ping every Textpattern related site just fine from my machines at home, pinging from my VPS gives me nothing. I can surf from my VPS using Lynx to Textpattern.com just fine, so it’s reachable.

So if anyone can shed some light on this, I’d appreciate it.

If nothing else, I’ve become an expert on RSS feed plugins for Textpattern ;)

hcgtv · 2006-08-13 15:54:43

After spending some time reading the Textdrive forums, I think their server configurations may be blocking out my VPS.

I’ve sent a support request to Textdrive and I’m waiting to hear back. As soon as I get an answer and hopefully a resolution, I’ll continue work on the design of the site.

PS. I’ve settled on using the SimplePie Plug-in for Textpattern. One nice feature that it contains over bit_rss is that you can control how many characters from the body of a post that you want to see displayed. It also plays nice with all the feeds coming from either Textpattern, PunBB, MediaWiki or Trac.

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Destry · 2006-08-14 10:40:09

Sounds good. Looking forward to this.

hcgtv · 2006-08-19 14:11:47

I was contacted by Filip Hajny of Textdrive support on 08/14, we exchanged some emails.

Current Status: Waiting on Customer

I don’t understand what they are waiting on me for?

colak · 2006-08-20 07:31:32

Yesterday I posted this in the How-tos forum and I was thinking that it would be great if there was a method if your site offered a method to search all sites which will be presenting. There is this by rollyo but that is about a user choice to install or not to install a plugin. Also, it is limited to mozilla browsers. I’m just think aloud here…

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