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[Magpierss-general] extracting images from rss feeds using magpie

[Jordah F. <jo...@ho...>]

Hi everyone,    Ive been banging my head against the keyboard for weeks on how to do this... below are my posts on stackoverflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3490740/pulling-images-from-rss-atom-feeds-using-magpie-rsshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3793768/rss-feeds-and-image-extraction-indepthhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3795170/php-array-filter-regular-expressions
can someone please tell me how to accomplish this... PLIZ 		 	   		  

[Magpierss-general] MAGPIE_CACHE_FRESH_ONLY

[Marc G. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

Long time user, first time caller.  I'm having some issues with a feed
not always being available so I started looking into the option to
fall back to cached data by MAGPIE_CACHE_FRESH_ONLY to FALSE and then
realized that it never gets used after it's defined.  Am I daft or is
this an idea that never got fleshed out?

Cheerios
Marc

[Magpierss-general] [ANN] VTD-XML 2.9

[Jimmy Z. <cra...@co...>]

VTD-XML 2.9, the next generation XML Processing API for SOA and Cloud computing, has been released. Please visit  https://sourceforge.net/projects/vtd-xml/files/ to download the latest version.
  a.. Strict Conformance 
    a.. VTD-XML now fully conforms to XML namespace 1.0 spec 
  b.. Performance Improvement
    a.. Significantly improved parsing performance for small XML files 
  c.. Expand Core VTD-XML API  
    a.. Adds getPrefixString(), and toNormalizedString2() 
  d.. Cutting/Splitting 
    a.. Adds getSiblingElementFragment()  
  e.. A number of bug fixes and code enhancement including: 
    a.. Fixes a bug for reading very large XML documents on some platforms 
    b.. Fixes a bug in parsing processing instruction 
    c.. Fixes a bug in outputAndReparse() 

[Magpierss-general] maximum feed size

[Robert B. <rbu...@vt...>]

Is there a maximum feed size with Magpie?  My requests seem to fall
apart after a certain size, but I can not seem to determine just how
much is too much.  Using magpie to help me cache a large set of time
series data, maybe not the most appropriate way to do things, but the
whole timeout, staleness, etc. is simply too good to resist.

Thanks,
r.b.

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[Magpierss-general] quotation mark character error

[InfoRota.net <inf...@gm...>]

Hello!

I'm getting this error:

An error occured!
Error Message: MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (Invalid character 
at line 165, column 26)

with the RRS:

http://rotaaldia.com/rss.xml

<item>
            <title><![CDATA[Paco Heredia inauguró el ciclo de los 
"Miércoles Flamenco"]]></title>
            
<link>http://rotaaldia.com/not/908/paco_heredia_inauguro_el_ciclo_de_los_miercoles_flamenco/</link>
            
<guid>http://rotaaldia.com/not/908/paco_heredia_inauguro_el_ciclo_de_los_miercoles_flamenco/</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[

Enmarcado dentro del programa del Verano Cultural, en esta semana ha 
comenzado el ciclo de "Miérc...]]></description>
        </item>

it seems that there is problem with the single quotation mark character 
(") in the description tag content
Is there a way to avoid this?

Regards,
Rafa

[Magpierss-general] Reading atom feeds, generating date_timestamp incorrectly

[Russ T. - T. N. P. <rus...@th...>]

Hello all,

Have had a strange little bug when reading atom feeds that I've just 
gotten around to looking at.

Basically if you fetch_rss() an atom feed (without a date_timestamp 
field) it appears to try to produce one from the other date fields, I 
think this only happens in the normalize function.

rss_parse -> normalize

$atom_date = (isset($item['issued']) ) ? $item['issued'] : 
$item['modified'];
                 if ( $atom_date ) {
                     $epoch = @parse_w3cdtf($atom_date);
                     if ($epoch and $epoch > 0) {
                         $item['date_timestamp'] = $epoch;
                     }
                 }

So I fetch a feed, no date_timestamp field, come the end of the process 
though the feed has a date_timestamp field although it's wrongly 
calculated. It seems to be about a year in the future!

This is the feed I'm parsing, maybe someone can help me shed some light 
on this please

http://feeds.feedburner.com/PropertyDevelopmentNews?format=xml

Many thanks,

Russ

[Magpierss-general] [ANN]VTD-XML 2.8

[jimmy Z. <jz...@xi...>]

VTD-XML 2.8 has been released. Please visit  https://sourceforge.net/projects/vtd-xml/files/ to download the latest version. 

  a.. Expansion of Core VTD-XML API 
    a.. VTDGen adds support for capturing white spaces 
    b.. VTDNav adds support for suport for getContentFragment(), recoverNode() and cloneNav() 
    c.. XMLModifier adds support for update and reparse feature 
    d.. AutoPilot adds support for retrieving all attributes 
    e.. BookMark is also enhanced.
  b.. Expansion of Extended VTD-XML API 
    a.. Add content extraction ability to extended VTD-XML 
    b.. VTDNavHuge now can call getElementFragment() and getElementFragmentNs() 
    c.. VTDGenHuge adds support for capturing white spaces
  c.. XPath 
    a.. Adds comment and processing instruction support for nodes, and performance enhancement 
    b.. Adds namespace axis support . 
    c..  Adds round-half-to-even() 

  d.. A number of bug fixes and code enhancement

[Magpierss-general] [ANN]VTD-XML 2.8

[Jimmy Z. <cra...@co...>]

VTD-XML 2.8 has been released. Please visit  https://sourceforge.net/projects/vtd-xml/files/ to download the latest version. 

  a.. Expansion of Core VTD-XML API 
    a.. VTDGen adds support for capturing white spaces 
    b.. VTDNav adds support for suport for getContentFragment(), recoverNode() and cloneNav() 
    c.. XMLModifier adds support for update and reparse feature 
    d.. AutoPilot adds support for retrieving all attributes 
    e.. BookMark is also enhanced.
  b.. Expansion of Extended VTD-XML API 
    a.. Add content extraction ability to extended VTD-XML 
    b.. VTDNavHuge now can call getElementFragment() and getElementFragmentNs() 
    c.. VTDGenHuge adds support for capturing white spaces
  c.. XPath 
    a.. Adds comment and processing instruction support for nodes, and performance enhancement 
    b.. Adds namespace axis support . 
    c..  Adds round-half-to-even() 

  d.. A number of bug fixes and code enhancement

[Magpierss-general] (no subject)

[<ny...@ya...>]

http://sites.google.com/site/zsfzcyglsx/mjg1ujtuim

Re: [Magpierss-general] Adding images

[Mohamed M. <ma...@gm...>]

I used magpierss for almost 2 years but later found simplepie is verygood
than magpie. I recommend using simplepie for new users. 

Regards
Mahir/India

-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth Dart [mailto:gar...@he...] 
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:29 PM
To: lou lou; mag...@li...
Subject: Re: [Magpierss-general] Adding images

Hi, erm, Lou Lou,
 
Do a var_dump on $items and look for the element name that contains images.
Echo an <img> tag to the browser with the src attribute set to the value
given (it should be a valid URL).
 
Cheers,
 
G
 
Gareth Dart
Web Developer
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ T 01242 211128  F 01242
211122  W www.hesa.ac.uk <http://www.hesa.ac.uk/> 
 

________________________________

From: lou lou [mailto:ny...@ya...]
Sent: Monday 21 December 2009 15:54
To: mag...@li...
Subject: [Magpierss-general] Adding images


Hi, I was wondering if someone can tell me what code needs to be included in
order to display images. Some RSS Feeds have images and the code I'm using
does not display them. Here's the code:


<?php
require_once('../magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');

$num_items = 5;
$rss = fetch_rss( 'http://cgi.askmen.com/RSS/askmenRSS_channel.php?ID=toys'
);
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items); 

//display links recent blog entries:
echo "";

foreach ($items as $item) { 
   $href = $item['link'];
   $title = $item['title'];
   $created = $item['created'];

   echo "<li><a href=$href>$title</a> $created</li>\n";
}

echo "</ul>";
?> 

Thank you.


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Re: [Magpierss-general] Adding images

[Gareth D. <gar...@he...>]

Hi, erm, Lou Lou,
 
Do a var_dump on $items and look for the element name that contains
images.  Echo an <img> tag to the browser with the src attribute set to
the value given (it should be a valid URL).
 
Cheers,
 
G
 
Gareth Dart
Web Developer
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
95 Promenade, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1HZ
T 01242 211128  F 01242 211122  W www.hesa.ac.uk
<http://www.hesa.ac.uk/> 
 

________________________________

From: lou lou [mailto:ny...@ya...] 
Sent: Monday 21 December 2009 15:54
To: mag...@li...
Subject: [Magpierss-general] Adding images


Hi, I was wondering if someone can tell me what code needs to be
included in order to display images. Some RSS Feeds have images and the
code I'm using does not display them. Here's the code:


<?php
require_once('../magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');

$num_items = 5;
$rss = fetch_rss(
'http://cgi.askmen.com/RSS/askmenRSS_channel.php?ID=toys' );
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items); 

//display links recent blog entries:
echo "";

foreach ($items as $item) { 
   $href = $item['link'];
   $title = $item['title'];
   $created = $item['created'];

   echo "<li><a href=$href>$title</a> $created</li>\n";
}

echo "</ul>";
?> 

Thank you.


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Registered No. 2766993. The members are Universities UK and GuildHE.
Registered Charity No. 1039709. Certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001.

HESA Services Ltd (HSL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HESA,
registered in England at the same address. Registered No. 3109219.

This email is private and confidential. If you have reason to believe
that you have received this message in error, please contact the
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No employee or agent is authorised to conclude any agreement binding
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[Magpierss-general] Adding images

[lou l. <ny...@ya...>]

Hi, I was wondering if someone can tell me what code needs to be included in order to display images. Some RSS Feeds have images and the code I'm using does not display them. Here's the code:


<?php
require_once('../magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');

$num_items = 5;
$rss = fetch_rss( 'http://cgi.askmen.com/RSS/askmenRSS_channel.php?ID=toys' );
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items); 

//display links recent blog entries:
echo "";

foreach ($items as $item) { 
   $href = $item['link'];
   $title = $item['title'];
   $created = $item['created'];

   echo "<li><a href=$href>$title</a> $created</li>\n";
}

echo "</ul>";
?> 

Thank you.

[Magpierss-general] IP addresses

[William B. <ed...@cr...>]

Hi,
Since moving my site to a new server I have not been able to get the  
RSS feeds to work apparently because the host is blocking links to  
specific IP addresses (well I can get one to work but no more). I'm  
running Wordpress (2.8.4) which uses MagpieRSS and the hosting  
company have asked me to get hold of the IP address/es that Magpie  
uses, so that they can allow the connection through (I had a similar  
problem with an outbound link to vodpod).

Bill

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less you give expression to your life, the more you have, the greater  
is your alienated life ... So all passions and all activity are  
submerged in greed – Karl Marx, Notebooks, 1844

[Magpierss-general] Feed returns current date instead of published date

[Dominic H. <li...@on...>]

Hi all,

I use MagpieRSS to generate a 'live' blogroll on my sidebar. I have it 
publish the date of the most recent post of each blog, but for some 
reason the top two entries keep returning the current date instead of 
the date of the post.

The feeds themselves seem correct. I do a little processing of the date 
to get it into the desired format:

$pubdate = date('d/m/y',strtotime($item['pubdate']));

but this has never caused me problems before.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Dominic
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

[Magpierss-general] Feed URL Validation

[<Oli...@we...>]

> Hello everyone,
>
> I hope this works :)
>
> Well, I wonder if you could give me an answer to a simple question: Is 
> there a function like "is_feed" or "validate_feed_url" ?
> What I need is a function to validate my feed url before it is 
> processed. By validating I mean that Magpie should find out if it's a 
> real RSS feed that we can parse or not.
>
> I know that Simplepie has a similar function like "is_feed", so it 
> would be great to have that function in Magpie as well.
>
> Any comments appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Oliver
>
>
>

Re: [Magpierss-general] Coding Problems

[Shivian B. <shi...@gm...>]

I have a feed at http://www.behance.net/featuredProjects.xml that I'm trying
to get the content within the <content:encoded> tags to display with, and
having no luck.

I'm using the following chunk of PHP code:

<?php

    $url = "http://www.behance.net/shivian.xml";
    $num_items = 10;
    $rss = fetch_rss($url);
    $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items);
    foreach ( $items as $item ) {
        $href = $item['link'];
        $title = $item['title'];
        $description = $item['description'];
        $content = $item['content:encoded'];
        echo "<a href='$href'><h4>$title</h4></a>";
        echo "<p>$description</p>";
        echo "<p>$content</p>";
    }

?>

Any suggestions to making it work?

-- Shivian Balaris (shivian.com)

[Magpierss-general] <category> elements

[Guilherme S. <gui...@gm...>]

I would like to use the <category> elements included in RSS feeds by
blog-engines like WordPress.

My problem is that when an item has multiple categories, they are
concatenated in one array entry ($item[0]['category']). Is this a bug or is
there a reason for it?
How can I fix it?

thanks

[Magpierss-general] apostrophe's as question marks

[<de...@tu...>]

hello.  i am having an issue where the apostrophe's from a feed are
being displayed as question marks once parsed by magpie.

i've
done some searching online but haven't found a solution.  can
somebody point me in the right direction?

many thanks.

derek

[Magpierss-general] apostrophe's showing as question marks

[derek a. <de...@tu...>]

Hello (and apologies for the last test message - my first didn't go 
through).

I have Magpie running on a site and I noticed that the apostrophe's are 
showing up as question marks.  Has anyone run into this previously and 
if so can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

derek

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[Magpierss-general] test

[derek a. <de...@tu...>]

test

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[Magpierss-general] apostrophe's showing up as question marks

[derek a. <de...@tu...>]

Hello.

I've noticed that apostrophe's are showing up as question marks after 
the RSS feed is parsed by Magpie.  Has anyone run into this and can you 
steer me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,

derek allard

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[Magpierss-general] RSS Advertising

[E300 <e3...@fr...>]

  Hello,

  Just to tell you that now there is often advertising in magpierss rss feed description (feedsportal.com).

  So can somebody explain (me) the way to remove this advertising  or why not imagine a second version of Magpierss without "photos" ?

  If you answer me don't forget that my english words are very limited.

  Good day.

  ABCD. (france)

Re: [Magpierss-general] [?? Probable Spam] Font

[<we...@tr...>]

Hi,

You can modify the feed with CSS. (font-size & stuff)
Here is tone code I use, you can see the different classes:

-----------------
define('MAGPIE_CACHE_DIR', '/tmp/magpie_cache');
?>

<?php
require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');

//change URL here
    $url = 'http://en.wordpress.com/tag/dark-orbit/feed/';
   
    $rss = fetch_rss( $url );

//Change Title of the Feed here
    echo  "<p class='RSSparser'>" . "The latest news about Dark orbit" ;
    echo "<ul class='RSSparserblock'>";
    foreach ($rss->items as $item) {
        $href = $item['link'];
        $title = $item['title'];
        $description = $item['description'];       
$postdate = $item['pubdate'];
        echo "<a href=$href><li 
class='RSSparsertitles'>$title</li></a><li 
class='RSSparserdescriptions'>$description</li><li 
class='RSSparserpostdate'>$postdate</li>";
        }
    echo "</ul></p>";

?>
------------------

I think the little text you're talking about is the variable:
$description

cheers,
xav



Martyn wrote:
>
> How do I change the font and spacing to match the rest of my site
>
> Also if you look here _http://www.nottinghamshirefa.com/default.htm_ 
> you will see that they have a few words under the news feed, how is 
> this achieved?
>
> Is there a FAQ with all common questions at all
>
> Cheers
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[Magpierss-general] Font

[Martyn <ma...@ch...>]

How do I change the font and spacing to match the rest of my site

Also if you look here http://www.nottinghamshirefa.com/default.htm you will
see that they have a few words under the news feed, how is this achieved?

Is there a FAQ with all common questions at all

Cheers

Re: [Magpierss-general] Hit an install issue

[Martyn <ma...@ch...>]

Apologies here is the whole code
 
<?php $num_items =5; 
$rss =
@fetch_rss('http://www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/rss/products/products.
xml');
 
if ($rss) 
{ 
    $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items); 
 
    echo '<ul>'; 
    foreach ($items as $item) 
    { 
        $href = $item['link']; 
        $title = $item['title']; 
        echo '<li><a href="' . htmlspecialchars($href) . '"
target="_blank">'. htmlspecialchars($title) . '</a></li>'; 
    } 
    echo '</ul>'; 
} 
else 
{ 
    echo '<p>We were unable to contact or RSS feed for the latest security
alerts. Sorry for any inconvenience.</p>'; 
} 
unset($rss); ?>

  _____  

From: Martyn [mailto:ma...@ch...] 
Sent: 22 June 2009 16:41
To: mag...@li...
Subject: [Magpierss-general] Hit an install issue



I have installed per instructions but hit on a problem with my feed which
loos like the below 

Nottinghamshire FA | News
items, 0, $num_items); echo ' 

	'; foreach ($items as $item) { $href = $item['link']; $title =
$item['title']; echo ' 

*
<http://www.cliftonfc.co.uk/%27%20.%20htmlspecialchars%28$href%29%20.%20%27>
'. htmlspecialchars($title) . ' 


	'; } echo ' 

'; } else { echo ' 

We were unable to contact or RSS feed for the latest security alerts. Sorry
for any inconvenience. 

'; } unset($rss); ?>   


Could somebody kindly point out where I have gone wrong please. 

I have the following directory set-up under my root 

Magpierss and within there I have: 
rss_utills, rss_parse, rss_fetch and rss_cache 

Directory called "Exitlib" which contains Snoopy.class 

Thanks all and my apologies if this is a real basic issue, I'm no coder or
website developer, just a hobbyist 

Chet