remote rss feed?

[plainsman]

Hi, I'm new... probably blind, definately dumb

So, I have three questions, please.

(1) I can't find something, (2) I can't get something to work and (3) just a quick clarification on 'shared databases'.

I installed "serendipity-0.6-pl3.tar" and love it! Great work. Simple to install. Pretty simple to use. Just having those final learning curve 'skids'

(1) I'm looking for this 'remote rss feed' mentioned in the documentation. I looked in the two dropdown areas under plugins. Either it is not there or I do not recognize it. (by the way, love the options you offer! pretty sweet!)

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Remote RSS Feed

Enables you to display a foreign RSS feed embedded into your blog. You can insert multiple plugins of this type to display multiple feeds. The feeds are cached and only updated as soon as the "time to live" of the cache gets hit.

Configuration

    * number - Number of feed items to display (defaults to all items)
    * dateformat - Customize the dateformat for the items
    * title - Title in the sidebar
    * rssuri - The URI of the foreign RSS feed
    * target - A HTML anchor target
    * cachetime - Time to Live of the cache. Defaults to 3 hours.

I want to show this feed: http://poynterextra.org/rss/tidbits.xml in say a box in either column (left/right). But cannot figure out how to do it.

(2) On another note, trying to import a RSS feed with "Import RSS URL: " I get:

Error on line 126 of /htdocs/www/serendipity/bundled-libs/Onyx/RSS.php: The specified file could not be opened.
Entries successfully inserted!

I'm trying to import this link: http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=CRM%20news&o=rss

Is this a chmod issue???

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

(3) By the way, I'm going to use this for my students. I'll have them install it and use it as part of class. I gather it 'shares db's well' - cause they'll have to put three different CMS packages on the db.

Also, for what it is worth, I did search the forums, but did not find a post with a solution I could understand. I've got this and hoping for this *grin*

OK, thats all my questions. I'll stop now! Thanks for serendipity!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The 'Remote RSS Feed' plugin has been introduced in our CVS-branch only. The 0.7 release is scheduled as beta now and should be out in a few weeks. You may want to download the snapshot and try it out, it's worth it!

(And I don't say that you could just copy the plugin from the snapshot to your 0.6-pl3 installation because then you wouldn't notice the other cool new features of 0.7

(2) On another note, trying to import a RSS feed with "Import RSS URL: " I get:

Error on line 126 of /htdocs/www/serendipity/bundled-libs/Onyx/RSS.php: The specified file could not be opened.
Entries successfully inserted!

Hm, that's strange. You may want to edit this RSS file and go to the line, remove the '@fopen' and replace it with 'fopen' so you could get error notices. Maybe your hoster has the url_fopen_wrappers disabled?

(3) By the way, I'm going to use this for my students. I'll have them install it and use it as part of class. I gather it 'shares db's well' - cause they'll have to put three different CMS packages on the db.

Sure, serendipity uses a DB prefix so that it doesn't disturb other tables inside the same DB

Good luck!

[plainsman]

thanks garvinhicking,

i'll go to the cvs and also try out that edit (plus checking the host's settings).

i appreciate the help. take care

[garvinhicking]

Just to note, it seems that in the current snapshot the installation of shared blogs seems to be broken a bit; this issue will be investigated. If you rely on that feature, try to get a snapshot older than a month from CVS. Versions below 0.6.8 should not contain that bug.

Regards,
Garvin.

[plainsman]

Thanks, Garvin. I'm not using that, yet. I'll check into it, too.

I'm really enjoying this software. Easy to use re: posting/updating.

Rob

btw, forgot to say this:

re: my first questions...

i did the @fopen edit you suggested and received this:

Serendipity Administration Suite

Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /htdocs/www/serendipity/bundled-libs/Onyx/RSS.php on line 126

Warning: fopen(http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /htdocs/www/serendipity/bundled-libs/Onyx/RSS.php on line 126

Error on line 126 of /htdocs/www/serendipity/bundled-libs/Onyx/RSS.php: The specified file could not be opened.
Entries successfully inserted!

so, what is a 'suitable wrapper'? or is that the problem?

thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Warning: fopen(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /htdocs/www/serendipity/bundled-libs/Onyx/RSS.php on line 126

I'm sorry to say you that your host does not allow to open foreign URLs, so you cannot use the plugin (and image download feature frmo s9y) if your host doesn't activate this.

Regards,
Garvin.

[plainsman]

bummer, well i'll write to them and see if they will enable that

they are pretty nice, so maybe it'll be fixed.

thanks for your help ... garvin, you really have been helfpul!