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Many thanks, yes you are correct, theres no output, other than what it writes to a file, thus at the moment i can place the widget onto my pages using a stripped template, so theres no visible trace at all visible on my pages, each time the widget loads on the page the file / rss file is updated thus i can now go here :
http://www.bidefordmarket.co.uk/bide...teventlist.rss
and see an rss feed just for the events.


Heres where i am completely at a loss, i dont know php, i copied and pasted bits and tried things until they worked.

I have a small concern regarding weird characters in the events posts, this seemed to break the rss page so it showed a "Page cannot be displayed" message, but on the whole seems to function ok..

Heres the thing i am laughing here i dont know php, not sure about hooks and things so you lost me

The code above is contained in a widget and seems a variation, the code inside some of the cron files looks like real php

if the code above works inside a widget, what do i need to do in order to create a new cron file say : events2rss.php , take the code above and place it in the new cron file and have it work?

if i for example use a copy of the sitemap.php cron file and call it rssevents.php, strip it and paste the code above into it i get an error of :

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /home/b1d3f0rd/public_html/includes/cron/rssevents.php on line 36

the code i now have in my new cron/rssevents.php file are as follows:

any advice is great
Many thanks in advance..

Carl

PHP Code:

<?php
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// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);
if (!is_object($vbulletin->db))
{
    exit;
}

// ########################################################################
// ######################### START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// ########################################################################

ob_start(); 
global $db,$vbulletin; 
$calendarid="1"; 
$per_page = "60"; 
//################################################ 
$d=date("d"); 
$m=date("m"); 
$y=date("y"); 
$sdate = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("$m"), date("$d"),  date("$y")); 
$edate = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("$m"), date("31"),  date("$y")); 
$and=" and dateline_from >= '".$sdate."'"; 

$getevents=$db->query_read("SELECT eventid, event, title, customfields, dateline_from from " . TABLE_PREFIX . "event WHERE calendarid='".$calendarid."' $and order by dateline_from ASC LIMIT $per_page"); 
$count=0; 
if(!$db->num_rows($getevents)) 
{ 
} 
else 
{ 
WHILE ($events=$db->fetch_array($getevents)) 
{ 
$eventdetails=$events['event'];
$eventdetails=substr($eventdetails, 0, 300);
$eventdetails .= "......";
$customfield=$events['customfields'];
$customfield = str_replace('a:0:{}', '', $customfield );
$customfield =strstr ($customfield, '"');
$customfield = str_replace('"', '', $customfield );
$customfield = str_replace(';}', '', $customfield );

$dtitle=$events['title']; 
$did=$events['eventid']; 
$date = vbdate('d-m-y',$events['dateline_from'], false,true,false,true); 
$dateext = vbdate('l jS F Y',$events['dateline_from'], false,true,false,true);
if ($count = 2){$class="alt2";}else {$class="alt1";} 
$year=date("Y"); 
$pagetitle = $f; 
$pagetitle .= " "; 
$pagetitle.=$year; 
$eventbits .=""; 

$dateext = htmlentities($dateext);
$eventdetails = htmlentities($eventdetails);


$eventbitsExt .="
<item>
<title>$dateext</title>
<description><![CDATA[$eventdetails]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.bidefordmarket.co.uk/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=$did&c=$calendarid]]></link>
<guid><![CDATA[000000$did]]></guid>
<pubDate><![CDATA[$sdate]]></pubDate>
</item>
"; 
$count++; 
} 
} 


$bidefordmarketeventlist = "bidefordmarketeventlist.rss";
$fh = fopen($bidefordmarketeventlist, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<rss version='2.0'>
<channel>
<title>Bideford Market Events</title>
<description>This is the RSS feed for Bideford Markets Latest Events</description>
<link>http://www.bidefordmarket.co.uk</link>
<lastBuildDate>$sdate</lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>$sdate</pubDate>
<ttl>1800</ttl>
");

//$eventbitsExt = str_replace("£", "£", $eventbitsExt);
//$eventbitsExt = str_replace("&", "&", $eventbitsExt);

$strfinda .= chr(150);
$eventbitsExt = str_replace($strfinda, " ", $eventbitsExt);


fwrite($fh, $eventbitsExt);
fwrite($fh, "</channel>
</rss>");
fclose($fh);


$db->free_result($getevents); 
unset($events); 
$output=ob_get_contents(); 
ob_end_clean();