I’m not sure what is going on, but let me explain my situation.
I was happily running FeedGrab v .61 (first revision after caching issue was solved) to grab entries from a last.fm rss feed and import the entries into my blog to be displayed later. This worked well until I noticed that my ee site wasn’t updating properly. I checked the last.fm feed (which was updating properly), made sure my cron job was running properly and narrowed the problem down to the fact that feedgrab wasn’t properly grabbing entries.
I upgraded to FeedGrab .7 (which just borked my plugins CP), and now my feed is updating properly but with some issues:
1. On the actual page that calls the feedgrab template, I am getting an error when using the refresh=“1” parameter. The entries still load, but the error wasnt there in v .61
2. Using Feedgrab .7, my track entries have a ? mark where the long dash used to be. This wasn’t an issue with .61. Tracks look like:
Fetching: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/DigiFiend/recenttracks.rss Checking: AC/DC ? Ride On Checking: AC/DC ? Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire) Checking: AC/DC ? There's Gonna Be Some Rockin' Checking: AC/DC ? Problem Child Checking: AC/DC ? Rocker Checking: AC/DC ? Big Balls Checking: AC/DC ? Love at First Feel Checking: AC/DC ? Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Checking: Stereo MC's ? Breeze Checking: Stereo MC's ? We Belong in This World Together
Any suggestions on how to renable the plugin manager and more importantly, how to get feedgrab .7 to recognize the “long dash”?
Version 7 of feedgrab introduced an updated version of the RSS/ATOM reading libray magpie. This allowed the plugin to do have some new, useful (to me anyway) features, like being able to access attributes of elements (eg, <element url=“http://url.com/” />).
It does seem as though the new magpie code does not handle character encodings as successfully as the previous version. I’ve been getting the ‘?’ characters replacing some characters too, typically quotes and dashes.
If you don’t need the new features, I’d suggest going back to v0.61 for now, until I can fix it.
...it’s definitely the declaration of the MagpieRSS class that causes the Plugin Manager to break.
Since Magpie is already installed, is there some way to just import it instead of replicating it in FeedGrab?
Unfortunately, the new version of feedgrab uses a newer version of the MagpieRSS class.
Feedgrab actually tries not to redeclare the class in the plugin manager - the problem seems to exist when the Feedgrab plugin is called first, and Magpie redeclares it.
I’ve an idea of how to fix this - I’ll see if I can find time to experiment this week.
Version 7 of feedgrab introduced an updated version of the RSS/ATOM reading libray magpie. This allowed the plugin to do have some new, useful (to me anyway) features, like being able to access attributes of elements (eg, <element url=“http://url.com/” />).
Andrew, would it be possible to do a how-to on this feature? I don’t think it’s been mentioned before and I’ve noticed more and more atom feeds use these attributes instead of normal XML.
Also, what is the semantics for the author/author_id now?
The author field does not take an input value from the feed. It only allows you to hard-code its value to one of the EE authors that you have set up (by id number, not name).
Version 7 of feedgrab introduced an updated version of the RSS/ATOM reading libray magpie. This allowed the plugin to do have some new, useful (to me anyway) features, like being able to access attributes of elements (eg, <element url=“http://url.com/” />).
It does seem as though the new magpie code does not handle character encodings as successfully as the previous version. I’ve been getting the ‘?’ characters replacing some characters too, typically quotes and dashes.
If you don’t need the new features, I’d suggest going back to v0.61 for now, until I can fix it.
Hi Andrew:
First of all, after reviewing the tone of my last message, I wanted to let you know that I sincerely appreciate the work you are putting into this plugin. It’s perfect for my application.
Unfortunatly, I can’t go back to .61. When running .61, old infomation that appears to be cached is grabbed by feedgrab.
.61:
Fetching: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/DigiFiend/recenttracks.rss Checking: Mickey Avalon – Roll Up Your Sleeves Checking: Mickey Avalon – Hustler Hall of Fame Checking: Mickey Avalon – Mr. Right Checking: Mickey Avalon – Roll The Dice Checking: Mickey Avalon – Jane Fonda Checking: Mickey Avalon – So Rich, So Pretty Checking: Talking Heads – Slippery People Checking: Oasis – Live Forever Checking: The Smiths – What She Said Checking: The Rolling Stones – Have You Seen Your Mother?
.7:
Fetching: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/DigiFiend/recenttracks.rss Checking: AC/DC ? Ride On Checking: AC/DC ? Ain't No Fun (Waiting Round to Be a Millionaire) Checking: AC/DC ? There's Gonna Be Some Rockin' Checking: AC/DC ? Problem Child Checking: AC/DC ? Rocker Checking: AC/DC ? Big Balls Checking: AC/DC ? Love at First Feel Checking: AC/DC ? Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Checking: Stereo MC's ? Breeze Checking: Stereo MC's ? We Belong in This World Together
After talking with Paul and doing some diagnosis, it appears that .61 of feedgrab is not caching entries correctly. I’m at a loss to explain why, the perms on both the magpie cache directory and file are 777. Does anybody know what server side change could cause such a behavior? It’s the only thing I can think of.
Am I missing something? I installed FeedGrab and set up a weblog and a template. I can bring in feeds with no problem and they are imported into the database. But when I try to click on a title under the Edit tab, I get an error message that I have tried to access a weblog that does not exist. Yet, when I go under the Publish tab and choose my feeds weblog, I can publish to it and also edit the entry. I just cannot get into the entries generated by FeedGrab. Is that how it is supposed to work?
First of all, after reviewing the tone of my last message, I wanted to let you know that I sincerely appreciate the work you are putting into this plugin. It’s perfect for my application.
Unfortunatly, I can’t go back to .61.
Don’t worry - no offence taken
Can I send you a new version of the plugin ‘off-forum’? I’ve made some changes that I think help, but I’m not sure whether they fix all of the problems, and I could use somebody to help test it.
I’m not sure why the old version is caching the data, though…
Am I missing something? I installed FeedGrab and set up a weblog and a template. I can bring in feeds with no problem and they are imported into the database. But when I try to click on a title under the Edit tab, I get an error message that I have tried to access a weblog that does not exist. Yet, when I go under the Publish tab and choose my feeds weblog, I can publish to it and also edit the entry. I just cannot get into the entries generated by FeedGrab. Is that how it is supposed to work?
The short answer is ‘no’, that isn’t how it is supposed to work.
The most likely problem is that the values are using for the weblog or author parameter are wrong, and the plugin is not warning you. Then when you are trying to view your entries, the Control Panel is not happy trying to find the entry’s weblog or author details.
Both parameters should take an integer value corresponding to the weblog’s or author’s id.
Feel free to send me your code your use to call the plugin and I’ll take a look at it (Email or PM is fine).
I think that the plugin is great Andrew, thanks. and it is working ok, except that I am getting the following error
Notice: Undefined index: date in ~/pi.feedgrab.php on line 221
Notice: Undefined index: date in ~/pi.feedgrab.php on line 222
Notice: Undefined index: date in ~/pi.feedgrab.php on line 223
Notice: Undefined index: date in ~/pi.feedgrab.php on line 224
I am guessing that “pubDate” is the wrong name, but I don’t know what I should be using… I tried just ‘date’ and that didn’t work either. It’s a feedburner feed and also does not work with a blogger feed. Please let me know if it’s possible or if you have any ideas. thanks!
First of all, after reviewing the tone of my last message, I wanted to let you know that I sincerely appreciate the work you are putting into this plugin. It’s perfect for my application.
Unfortunatly, I can’t go back to .61.
Don’t worry - no offence taken
Can I send you a new version of the plugin ‘off-forum’? I’ve made some changes that I think help, but I’m not sure whether they fix all of the problems, and I could use somebody to help test it.
I’m not sure why the old version is caching the data, though…
You bet, I just sent you my e-mail addy via a forum PM, let me know if you didn’t get it.
I am running into a seriously weird problem with this plugin! It was working until now, but I just upgraded to 0.7 and it stopped working. Just gives me a blank page, entirely blank with no output whatsoever, so it’s hard to debug. Page displays fine without the plugin, but goes blank as soon as I put the code in, no matter what changes I made to it.
Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this or how I might troubleshoot this better? My server’s using PHP5, in case that might make a difference.
