im still looking to see what i can find. so far i have no clue and the only thing i can say is that it and another mod you have are interferring.

actually it only runs one time. some people posting problems with duplicates actually have different news feeds. the script looks for the field pubDate ... some have something different for the date field like cc:date, some don't have a date field at all. also, one bug that i am pretty sure is in there that i will try and fix for the next update deals with duplicates.

if there is a " in the title, it will still post that even if it was posted before. this is because when it checks the database this is what happens:

title: this is my "news" feed
database: this is my \"news\" feed

both technically are the same, except for the escaped quotes. i think this is cause some posts with quotes in the title to be duplicated. i'm going to look into it further. i'm also trying to update the way posts are deleted with the delete all news function.

Beleive me it does run more than once from cron. I added some code to log when it runs and it shows it ran 4 times back to back on the scheduled time. I get 4 entries everytime it runs. For some reason it runs until the next scheduled task runs and doesn't stop after the first run.

I agree, I think this is my problem too, however why is it running 4 times, why are the other crons ok?

Slapyo - thanks very much for your continued work on this hack. You are saving us all a great deal of time.

that's odd because mine is only running 1 time. if you come up with a fix for it let me know and i will include it in the package.

could you send me the code you used to log it so i can use it in mine and see if it helps with debugging. don_lacuran@hotmail.com is my email.

there is no loop in the program to grab the rss file more than once. unless of course you have more than one rss bot. i don't have this problem on mine, but it seems to be an issue with others. hopefully we can get it worked out.

Article titles like the following are not recognized as duplicates.

**** Clark Has Diabetes, Says PR Firm (AP)
$1.2M for WTC Workers (AP)

In the database the $ sign is converted to &#36 ;
I don't understand why the first one is not recognized as a duplicate.

I'd like to know this too as I only want a few news posts per day.
Joe


Would changing this:
for($j = count($rss_allItems) - 1; $j >= 0; $j--) {

to this work:
for($j = 10 - 1; $j >= 0; $j--) {

???????

Joe

ya, that looks like the code you would edit. then you only make your script run once every 24 hours in the cron job. and for the code you posted, you would get 10 news articles a day.

Great, thanks for the quick reply