Support/Comments for feedreader

You should call this snippet uncached [!...!].

Are you sure the snippet name in your snippet call (feedreader) is exactly the same as the name of the snippet in the Manager?

@sottwell

i switched some things up including your suggestions and I am getting an error. Can you think of anything else I can do? I really want to use the modx snippet instead of getting javascript involved. Here is my error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /home/content/r/e/d/redwinebuzz/html/modx/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(769) : eval()’d code on line 40

Can you fix this?

You need to have the simplexml extenstion compiled into your PHP.

I would suggest you try FeedX or NewsParserX. I’ve used FeedX on several sites with no problems.

thanks, again! works much better. I have some configuring to do but a much better snippet.

I don’t know as I’d say it’s better, it just doesn’t use the built-in simplexml PHP libraries.

true enough... works better for my application, though. I just needed a simple blog feed on the home page to drive people to the blog.

I am having trouble configuring it to display just the current blog post. In other words, I want it to ONLY display one post. check out my development homepage:

www.redwinebuzz.com/modx

Any ideas how I just display a maximum of one post?

I’ll answer this in the FeedX forum.

Yar... this Snippet is irking me. If I reference an RSS url that uses parameters (e.g. a Google search result), it fails with this error:


See my other post here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,32992.0.html

I think this may simply be a limitation of the fopen() function. Does that sound possible? I’m reading the PHP docs now, but I don’t see anything about that in there yet...

I tried encoding the url... still getting an error...
http://bytes.com/groups/php/4422-fopen-url-parameters

For the record, people may want to try out
http://modxcms.com/NewsParserX-601.html

Which seems to be a comparable Snippet with better documentation.