Thanks guys I get what youre saying now :)

I have found several rss feeds that work..... the problem is most all of them I found only give you 2 or 3 lines of a story and then a link..... Does anyone know of some good links that will post the entire story? Preferably sports related...... Thanks!

I would also love a feed that actually puts more content on the site and not 3 lines................... I would also like to be able to remove the bot from adding to post counts...lol

The content of the feed has absolutely nothing to do with ArticleBot and everything to do with what the content providers choose to include.

Reuters usually gives a good description.

I know I'm beating a dead horse here but the answer eludes me still.

Just got it all set up to feed the link below (the one recommended) into a forum. Works fine, feeds it in. BUT, it feeds only into the title. It doesn't post any of the lines or the link into the body of the post. Just a title.

http://www.bonsai-today.com/rss/bonsai-today-rss.html

I've checked this whole board and the one fella who seemed to figure it out was happy to tell us of his triumph, BUT NOT HOW HE DID IT!!! ugh.

Help is appreciated!

Thanks,
Layne

Layne

I just added that feed to my test installation, and it appears to work correctly on mine. I would recommend doing a fresh install of articlebot and using the updated MagpieRSS files (Which I linked to in a previous post.)

Also, you might want to take a look at your template (if it's customized for your articlebot) to make sure you haven't left something out. You could look diretly at your database (phpmyadmin) to see if the article descriptions are coming through and being inserted or not.

Good luck

Kenny

Kenny,

I downloaded the most recent version of Magpie and am not sure what to do with it or where to put it. Or, even if I should do anything with it. I'm not sure which MagpieRSS files you're talking about. Which files in the Article Bot download need to be updated?

Thanks,
Layne

There are four files in the articlebot directory that you should have uploaded to your server. The file names are rss_cache.inc, rss_fetch.inc, rss_parse.inc and rss_utils.inc I believe. If I recall, the MarpieRSS tgz file has those files inside it, and you should upload and replace the ones in your articlebot directory with the new ones from the magpie tgz.

I don't know if this will fix your problem, but it might. Good luck.
Kenny

Kenny, thanks for helping me out with this.

Did this. No dice.

Doublechecked, looked fine. Did a copy and replace right out of instructions to be sure. Still nada.

Here's where we have a lead. When I use phpMyAdmin to check the contents of articlebot_rss_cache the last thing in the table says...

rsschacheid=91
title=...And We're Back
dateline=1114918800

That's it. I see no descriptions.

This looks fishy.

On a different note...

Before checking the database, I tried to do a reinstall, went through the steps and got this database error. Have no idea what I've messed up, if anything. Thoughts?

Again, thank you.