[Snippet] NewsParserX (version 0.9)

Thank you very much for this useful snippet!!

I got a bit of trouble to read out a RSS feed from my IPB forums. This is the URL

http://gamerscollective.com/forums/index.php?act=rssout&id=3



This is what I get when I call the snippet: http://stage.server02.com/modx/index.php?id=39 (please look at the link)

It is a valid RSS feed, since my RSS reader picks it up no problem. Only am concerned about the "?act=" part in the URL. Any thoughts on how to kill this bird ??

Quote from: Trance at Mar 22, 2006, 01:05 PM

I got a bit of trouble to read out a RSS feed from my IPB forums. ...
It is a valid RSS feed, since my RSS reader picks it up no problem. Only am concerned about the "?act=" part in the URL. Any thoughts on how to kill this bird ??

Hmmm, same result when I try to load it as well. I’ll have to look into the problem, but I’m a little swamped today. If you don’t hear from me in a couple of days, feel free bump this thread to remind me. Of course if you figure out the issue in the meantime, I’m sure you’ll share that as well...

I’m well on my way to proving my complete stupidity...but, I’m getting nowhere being stubborn and trying to figure this out on my own.

I can’t seem to wrap my brain around this whole process. I followed the instructions in the original message, and got...nothing.

I then followed Susan Ottwell’s followup procedure, and at least got "no entries found" to display.

That’s where I’ve been for 2 hours now.

So, here’s what I’ve done:

1. I put the contents of the zip file into /assets/snippets/newsparserx

2. I created a new snippet called NewsParserX and pasted the newslisting.snippet.txt into it.

Then, I put [[NewsParserX]] into the template.

Nothing.

So, I followed the slightly different procedure spelled out by Susan Ottwell, and created a snippet called "parseNews" with the return $modx->runSnippet line as it’s only content, and put [[parseNews]] into my template. That gets me the "no entries found" output.

I can’t seem to figure out, step by step, what I should be doing. And, the original instructions from Jason seem substantially different from what Susan did. What goes where? And, what should I put in the template?

Thanks. Sorry to be dumb.

Duane

Hi Duane,

Are you passing a URL in the snippet call? If [[NewsParserX]] returns ’No Entries Found’ then, for all intents and purposes, I think the snippet is working. You just need to tell it where to get the feed

So, something like this should work:

Quote from: garryn at Mar 28, 2006, 03:40 PM

Hi Duane,

Are you passing a URL in the snippet call? If [[NewsParserX]] returns ’No Entries Found’ then, for all intents and purposes, I think the snippet is working. You just need to tell it where to get the feed

So, something like this should work:

[[NewsParserX? &url=`http://domain.tld/feed_url`]]

Thanks for the quick reply, Garry.

In order to try and eliminate as many variables in my troubleshooting as possible, I used the exact structure of Susan’s snippet call (figuring modx forums were a known source of a feed). So, as she spelled out, I created a snippet called "parseNews" with this content:



Then, I put [[parseNews]] into my template. This is what yields the "no entries" display.

So, the URL I’m passing is the identical one to Susan’s.

Duane

Hmm, from the error messages my local install is giving me and just reading some of the previous posts in this thread - I think NewsParserX has an issue with RSS feeds that have a question mark in them (it’s actually crashing Apache for me, lol!)

Could you try a URL that doesn’t have a question mark, just to see if this is the issue - I know the BBC RSS feeds are okay (www.bbc.co.uk)

Thanks, Garry

Quote from: garryn at Mar 28, 2006, 04:23 PM

Hmm, from the error messages my local install is giving me and just reading some of the previous posts in this thread - I think NewsParserX has an issue with RSS feeds that have a question mark in them (it’s actually crashing Apache for me, lol!)

Could you try a URL that doesn’t have a question mark, just to see if this is the issue - I know the BBC RSS feeds are okay (www.bbc.co.uk)

Thanks, Garry

Here’s the content of my snippet now:



Sadly, the same result: "no entries found"

~sigh

Sorry Duane, my fault. I meant get an RSS feed off the BBC website:

Try the one below:

Thanks for all the help, Garry. I abandoned NewsParserX and used the old etomite snippet, which worked right off the bat.

Quote from: garryn at Mar 28, 2006, 04:47 PM

Sorry Duane, my fault. I meant get an RSS feed off the BBC website:

Try the one below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/int/ne/nrss/log/i/-/news/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml

Same result.

Just to re-orient, here’s how things are set up:

1. In /assets/snippets/newsparserx, I placed the files contained in the zip on the orginal post (a php and a txt file).

2. I pasted the latest code from the newslisting snippet into the newslisting snippet in the resources tab, and uploaded the snippet txt file to /assets/snippets/newslisting.

3. I created a snippet called newsParser and pasted this code which came from Susan’s post:


4. I put [[newsParser]] into my xhtml template code in the div where it’s placed in the layout.

What I get is two "no entries found" lines displaying. If you want to take a look, the URL is:

http://www.ideabankpreview.com/acn (it’s at the bottom of the page, center column).

This is still on the staging server, and I’m just beginning to construct the page.

Thanks again,
Duane