[contrib] Textpattern Planet

hcgtv · 2006-08-20 17:05:24

colak, Alex sent me a link to Wilshire’s Rollyo search engine

I’ll include a link on the planet site to it, I’ve been playing with it and it seems to find what I look for.

hcgtv · 2006-08-21 15:04:24

Status bump:

Textdrive is the not the problem, I can access feeds using rss_fetch, so it appears to be SimplePie having problems with my PHP version accessing some servers.

I’m awaiting the developers of SimplePie to give me an answer on their support forums. I also read that Beta 3 is coming soon, if that doesn’t fix the problem then I’ll go with tcm_rss that uses MagpieRSS.

colak · 2006-08-21 15:50:58

Why don’t you try feed2JS ? I use it with mild success. Basically I had to create a cron script to delete the files feed2JS creates once every 8 hours. Without the cron script the feeds were not parsed

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hcgtv · 2006-08-21 16:35:08

colak, I’d prefer to use Textpattern plugins on the site. I think by using plugins we help in their further development and in turn, Textpattern’s own usage.

Walker · 2006-08-25 14:15:19

So how’s it going Bert? Any updates on the issue with SimplePie?

Ahh….I read through the forum where you’re working with the SP developer. (He’s got something new to try today).

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colak · 2006-08-26 06:26:15

hcgtv wrote:

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

Hi Bert, I started using simplepie as from yesterday in the home page of neme.org site. The idea was that I wanted to create a unifying interface between 2 txp installs and a punBB forum. All is working just fine. The site is hosted in textdrive.

To make it function I used the simplepie plugin downloaded from their site. If you need any help let me know.

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hcgtv · 2006-08-26 16:51:20

colak wrote:

Hi Bert, I started using simplepie as from yesterday in the home page of neme.org site. The idea was that I wanted to create a unifying interface between 2 txp installs and a punBB forum. All is working just fine. The site is hosted in textdrive.

Hey colak,

I’m using the Textpattern plugin made by SimplePie also, we just can’t figure out why it fails to read feeds coming from certain servers. I’m working with the developers on this issue, hopefully we’ll get it working soon.

I figure neme.org and all the sites it’s feeding from are all on Textdrive? Would you mind telling me what version of PHP and Curl your site is using, thanks.

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colak · 2006-08-26 17:02:39

hcgtv wrote:
I figure neme.org and all the sites it’s feeding from are all on Textdrive? Would you mind telling me what version of PHP and Curl your site is using, thanks.

here’s the info from the diagnostics

PHP version: 5.1.4
Server Local Time: 2006-08-26 16:58:14
MySQL: 4.1.18-log
Locale: en_GB.ISO_8859-1
Server: Apache
PHP Server API: cgi-fcgi
Server OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

How do I get the Curl version?

A note: All sites I am getting the feeds from belong to the same domain. Just thought I should clarify that one.

hcgtv · 2006-08-26 17:47:02

colak wrote:

How do I get the Curl version?

In your PunBB forum, go to the Administration section and click Show info next to the PHP version.

On my laptop, I’m running PHP 5.1.4 and all was running well. It’s only on my VPS running PHP 4.3.10 that I’m having issues.

colak · 2006-08-27 06:26:09

Thanks:) Here ya go

libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2

hcgtv · 2006-08-27 14:01:20

colak wrote:

libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.2

My laptop: libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3

Spent a good part of yesterday reading up on Curl, very powerful capabilities. Didn’t come across anything that would indicate why PHP 4.3.10 would be having issues, but I’ll keep Googling, the answer is out there somewhere.

Once Debian Etch becomes stable later this year, I’ll update the VPS to PHP 5.

Walker · 2006-08-28 16:29:31

Heya Bert, check on this:
allow_url_fopen (in php – maybe the .ini file?)
Read this

I hope that helps…maybe?

hcgtv · 2006-08-28 16:45:49

Walker wrote:

Heya Bert, check on this:
allow_url_fopen (in php – maybe the .ini file?)

I have allow_url_fopen set to on in the php.ini file.

I think it’s an issue with Curl running on Debian’s PHP 4.3.10, we haven’t been able to figure out why but we’re still searching for a reason. I’m grabbing SimplePie’s SVN daily, hoping to find a fix included.

Walker · 2006-08-28 17:26:46

Well, the simplePie guys did say that it falls back to use other methods if curl is not available. Can you force those other methods so that they’re tried first?

hcgtv · 2006-08-29 00:17:18

Walker wrote:

Well, the simplePie guys did say that it falls back to use other methods if curl is not available. Can you force those other methods so that they’re tried first?

In SimplePie it will use Curl if it finds it loaded but it doesn’t fall back to use fsockopen if the feed fails while using Curl.

fsockopen reads Textdrive feeds just fine cause rss_fetch uses it as it’s preferred method, but rss_fetch freaks out on Textpattern 4.0.3 feeds.

At this point I feel like I’m half way through playing a game of Clue, rather than give up I want to know if it’s Colonel Mustard with the Candlestick in the Observatory ;)

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