rah_external_output

Algaris · 2013-03-07 18:10:31

Thank you. I’ll have a chat with the IT Department who set the servers up.

Onto my second issue, do you have any advice on escaping the displayed contents? At the moment I’m getting things like this:

Boysâ€™ Hockey: U15 v Plymouth College
(A) 3.15pm

instead of:

Boys’ Hockey: U15 v Plymouth College
(A) 3.15pm

Last edited by Algaris (2013-03-07 18:10:56)

Gocom · 2013-03-07 18:21:59

Algaris wrote:

Onto my second issue, do you have any advice on escaping the displayed contents?

Not escaping, but encoding. The content is in UTF-8, but you’ve been sending it as ISO-8859-1. Basically you have a content-type header set without a charset information, and your server is configured to default sending content in ISO-8859-1.

You can solve that by either adding charset to the header line definition you have in your rah_external_output snippet, or you could as well remove the line. Snippets default to HTML sent as UTF-8. You will also be able to use a file extension (rah_eo accepts and can map extensions json, js. xm, css, txt, html) to set the content type.

Last edited by Gocom (2013-03-07 18:28:44)

Algaris · 2013-03-08 10:14:25

I’m always getting those mixed up. Thank you for your help I’ve fixed the encoding problem by changing the header line.

Gocom · 2013-04-23 07:53:58

v1.0.2 released. Changes:

Fixed: PHP namespace compatibility.
Changed: Under Textpattern 4.6.0-dev adds the ‘View’ link to the new action bar.
Improved: Internal clean up.
Improved: Use Textpattern’s assigned flags to ensure future compatibility.
Improved: Creating preferences to the memory isn’t necessary.

More info and downloads

txpdevcoder · 2013-10-09 09:40:16

Hey,

I have a problem with rah_external output. Ive used it to generate an xml feed that i pull into another website as a kind of a featured blog posts. It worked great for a long but now we have updated our blog to use rss_unlimited_catagories. Unfourtunatly the rss_unlimited_catagories tags do not work inside rah_external_output

If i switch it to a standard txp:article tag it works fine, but is obviously not seeing the categories I want it too.

My feed looks like this. Am i missing something?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" >
<channel>
<generator>http://textpattern.com/</generator>
<title><txp:site_name /></title>
<link><txp:link_to_home /></link>
<pubDate><txp:php>echo strftime( "%a, %d %b %G %T %Z" );</txp:php></pubDate>
<atom:link href="<txp:site_url/>?rah_external_output=featuredfeed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list limit="4" category="featuredfeed">
<item>
<title><txp:title /></title>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<txp:excerpt />
]]>
</description>
<link><txp:permlink /></link>
<pubDate><txp:posted format="%a, %d %b %G %T %Z" /></pubDate>
<dc:creator><txp:author /></dc:creator>
<guid><txp:permlink /></guid>
</item>
</txp:rss_unlimited_categories_article_list>
</channel>
</rss>

Gocom · 2013-10-09 10:52:56

txpdevcoder wrote:

Am i missing something?

Might be due to that rss_unlimited_categories’ SQL constructing, or its URL routing. If I saw correctly in its source code (which isn’t well intended), its using the current section as the default section attribute value. For homepage, and thus rah_external_output, it’s default, which will not give you any articles.

Try setting the section attribute to empty (section=""). Also, unless you are using modified version of the plugin, it does not support contained statements; you will have to use form templates (form="rss-item").

Last edited by Gocom (2013-10-09 10:53:35)

gfdesign · 2015-06-26 04:13:41

Hi Jukka
Just to be sure, with this plugin, would you be able to serve contents to another non TXP site? For example, I am looking for the way to display TXP contents into a forum site. Do you think this plugin would serve content in the format I need?
Thanks for your reply.
Fernando

Last edited by gfdesign (2015-06-26 04:21:01)

johnstephens · 2016-08-12 18:32:21

I just wanted to report a strange experience. After upgrading a site to Textpattern 4.6 beta 2, I noticed that I was using rah_external_output version 0.4. After installing the current version (1.0.4), the plugin stopped working. No problem, restoring the database from backup brought rah_external_output v0.4 back, which works fine.

I don’t have an emergency: I’m not upgrading sites in production until Txp 4.6 is released as stable. And now that I know 1.0.4 isn’t compatible, I won’t try to install it.

colak · 2016-08-13 05:45:04

Hi John, I have tested rah_external_output 1.0.4 on Textpattern version: 4.6.0-beta.2 and it works fine for me.

I guess the main difference is that I had the latest version of the plugin installed on txp 4.5.7.

johnstephens · 2016-08-13 12:49:02

Thanks, Yiannis! When I get a chance, I’ll try installing 1.0.4 before the Txp upgrade and report back.

johnstephens · 2016-10-25 19:56:44

Still having problems with this. :(

At first, I thought it was an order of operations problem. I upgraded a Textpattern installation to 4.6.2 before upgrading rah_external_output from v0.4 to v1.0.4. After the upgrades, my external outputs threw 404 errors, and the panel under Extensions disappeared, showing a “Restricted Area” error.

So I went back to my backups, and upgraded the plugin first, from v0.4 to v1.0.4. That worked, but the problem came back after upgrading Textpattern to version 4.6.2: The external outputs threw 404 errors, and the rah_external_output panel disappeared again, showing a “Restricted Area” message.

Next, I downgraded the plugin to v0.4. It worked again. I upgraded to each incremental version, and it continued to work up to v0.8. After upgrading to v0.9 and higher, there were problems, but I was able to get the output and the admin panel back by downgrading the plugin to v0.8 under Txp v4.6.2.

I have another problem after setting my server to use PHP 7.0.11 instead of PHP 5.6.25, but I think that might be due to a <txp:php> tag I’m using in one of the external outputs. If the problem persists after I work on that I’ll report back.

Does anyone have insight into getting the later versions working under Txp 4.6+? And is there any foreseeable harm in using v0.8?

Thank you!

uli · 2016-10-25 22:33:20

Wonder if you stumbled over the new form naming and linking conventions introduced in v0.9., see plugin help.

Edit: Or here, see “List of features” and “Basics”. Nearly broke my neck once ;)

Last edited by uli (2016-10-25 22:36:39)

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