[Archived] bit_rss

maverick · 2007-01-15 15:55:09

My thanks to both nasv and dai for posting your solution. It solved my problem that I posted sometime back. I too was using <a class=“title” href=”<txp:permlink />”><txp:title /></a>with frustrating results. The fix seems so obvious now.

Thanks again.

dai · 2007-01-15 16:23:08

is there any way of making each feed write an individual article everytime its updated, allowing for commenting, etc?

dai · 2007-01-19 10:33:54

dai wrote:

is there any way of making each feed write an individual article everytime its updated, allowing for commenting, etc?

I’ll take that as a no then ;) – I’m going to try and develop it, if anyone wants to help or has any tips/info please get in touch -> daisquared at gmail dot com

blueprint · 2007-01-19 13:14:10

I installed bit_rss today and I’m not sure whether I understand it completely.

I added the follow code in my home page (the default page):
<txp:bit_rss feed="http://10.0.0.152/nb/rss" />

The result is that the last 10 articles are shown on the home page, according to the fields in the default rss form. But no link to a rss feed or whatever. What did I do wrong??

dai · 2007-01-19 13:19:10

blueprint try <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink> in your form

blueprint · 2007-01-19 13:47:09

Thnx for the quick reply, but this didn’t solve the problem.

Now I got the article titles displayed (with a link to the article) on the rendered page. What I want is only a link on the rendered page to a rss feed, and by clicking on that link Firefox 2.0 will display the rss xml. All I have is the content of the rss feed displayed on my rendered page and NOT the link to that content
The problem is that with me bit_rss is displaying the content of the default rss form on the rendered page, and not a link to the rss xml.

dai · 2007-01-19 14:11:33

maybe you dont need this plugin to do what you want…why dont you just create a link like you would for any external link…

Walker · 2007-01-19 15:18:38

@blueprint, I think you misunderstand. You can use textpattern to create an RSS feed by default. bit_rss is for parsing other server’s RSS feeds and integrating them as articles into your own.

@dai, you need to turn off caching if you want to get what you want to do to work. the problem with that is that each feed will have to be fetched everytime someone loads the page…..that’s a drag.

dai · 2007-01-19 15:27:41

@Walker
yes that is a drag, thats why i was thinking about adding them as an article and hence the db so as to stop the constant fetching – also just turning the caching off doesnt allow for commenting, which is a feature i would really like…it looks like alot of work, as im relatively new to txp, but im ok with php and i’m sure it can be done.

blueprint · 2007-01-19 15:58:11

Thanks Walker, now I understand the behaviour of bit_rss. I was looking for a plugin that could do more than the standard textpattern rss tag.

nasv · 2007-01-19 17:10:43

out of curiosity, has anyone run into situations where bit_rss will not include the latest from an RSS feed? (I think this might be more of a problem with the simplepie engine).

My site is www.tintorecords.com, and I make the following call for bit_rss:
<txp:bit_rss form=“bit_rss_list” feed=“http://www.corkd.com/feed/journal/nasv” limit=“5” />

corkd.com is a wine “management” site, and I can post my reviews to a journal. Reviews added to the journal are syndicated via the feed link above. My google reader sees all of the latest reviews and in the proper order. My call to bit_rss seems to select 5 of my reviews arbitrarily to review, thus my latest reviews aren’t displayed :-( … unfortunately, when I test at http://simplepie.org/demo/, I get the same 5 results.

Any ideas? Any one have similar problems?

thanks,
-Nico

dai · 2007-01-19 19:00:05

not sure why its happening but you could try adding order=“desc” which should order them the newest first

nasv · 2007-01-19 19:24:54

thanks for the tip… I think after a little bit more research I’ve discovered it’s a problem with how the actual feed is implemented (bit_rss does no wrong here). I’ve already mailed the support team for the RSS writers.

thanks though,
-Nico

hcgtv · 2007-01-19 21:29:10

I believe bit_rss has an older version of SimplePie, grab the latest version and just overwrite the simplepie.inc.

I discovered the same thing also, the sorting issue, it was fixed in Beta 3.

WebKat · 2007-01-23 22:28:41

What is the best way for getting this to display excerpts rather than full text? I’m using this to put the last 5 entries in my LiveJournal into the page, but sometimes my LJ entries are very, very long, and sometimes they have images and so on, and so I really don’t want the full entries to show up. 300 or so characters would be better (but preferably breaking at actual words, not just mid-word?)

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