The suggestion by Slapyo appears to have resolved my problem. Your best bet is to view the actual feed in your browser and see if there is a pubDate field.

Examples:

Broken: http://www.defensereview.com/backend.php
Correct: http://news.com.com/2547-1_3-0-5.xml

View each, and you'll notice that the correct feed has a pubDate field for each item. The first one was the one I originally used for testing, and it didn't work. I changed to the other, and it's been working fine since.

I'm thinking about using this hack but would like it to do 2 different things, first is what was intended as a rss news feed, secondly there is an XML feed from an online game which I play, the tags in this XML file are different than a news feed (names). Would it be quite simple to alter the sript to allow this? For example I was thinking that I could insert a simple if statement in the template that makes the posts to say something like (in simple terms so you get what I'm thinking)
If bot = this bot then
post title = some tag
post description = some other tag

I presume it is possible, but is it just a couple of template changes or will I need to alter the files of this hack to do it?

scutter, no template changes ... it would all be within the script.

toddw, the %20 corresponds to a space. try removing the %20 and replacing it with a space. however you will have a problem since there is no pubDate field in the news feed. the pubDate field is required because of the need to check for new news.

How come MoreOver doesn't use a PUB Date Field? Is there a way around this for MoreOver Feeds?

edit- Looks like since they 'refresh' every 15 minutes they don't find the need for a pubdate field ??? :ermm:

Because their feeds are RSS 0.91 feeds, and you typically don't see pubDate in 0.91 feeds.

Nothing you can do about it other than complain to MoreOver.

i installed this, it did the first feed read, but it seems to not be finding new entries, or just not adding new entries?

using the feed http://rss.pcworld.com/rss/latestnews.rss

the most recent article should be "New Cool, Quiet Laptop Hard Drives", but the most recent is "Is XP's Fix Safe?"

not sure what is going on.

They don't have a pubDate field in their feeds. See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=431

so i cant use this feed? thats a bummer :(

this sucks. i cant use the best pc computing news feed i have found thus far, because this thing needs pub dates? why doesnt it just check against titles or links. seems kind of lame and limited.

If you read this entire thread, you'd know it's because without a pubDate field, the script doesn't know when it was released, and, thus, if it's new or not. Perhaps if PC Computing got off their @ss and came out with an RSS 2.0 feed, instead of using that 0.91 feed, the world would be a better place.