[CyberRanger]

Originally Posted by Mysticales

http://www.darkmystics.com/forums/ab...hp?do=rss&id=3

I have a maximum of 1500 length set, 3 articles to show.

Now "Sometimes" it formats ok, sometimes it may give me a good partial article for the 1st and 2nd one, but the 3rd one may be all crumpled, then if you also look at the "links" that are shown, sometimes the url is messed up on things.

Basically lets say this... like the RSS Bot we all know about that makes posts, that one takes a arcticle, posts part of it, and sets rest to the "more" which clicks back to the source article.

Basically... looking for it to parse the articles better, say maybe give "x" chars per article then cut it off and link to the source. Vs one global length modifier.

This way I could do 5, 10 articles shown, whatever, and it would only show a preview of the article then link them to the full story.

The "Maximum Length" property is, I'm afraid, fairly stupid. Right now, it just yanks the first x characters from the feed. This can mean that tags are cut in the middle, etc. I think that's why your formatting looks so bad. I may need to re-look how I do that. Maybe strip all the tags first, then add the "more" at the beginning of the feed. I think that would solve the problems you're are seeing.