RSS stuff help needed

[TimberFloorAu]

Thanks I was hoping that was the case.

Do you know a way ( my son does but he has gone away on hols for a few days ) --- of extracting the keywords from the page, and injecting them into that pages metatags on the fly.?

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Ok sorted the rss/css issue i think. Albeit its a bit ugly, will refine now I am upto speed:

$rss2_output .= "<dt><strong>
<a href='" . trim($link) . "'><span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration: underline;color: #73a202; margin-left: 20px\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($title)) . "</span></a></strong> - <span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color: #92b5e7\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($date)) . "</span>  <span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color: #bbbbbb\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($author)) . "</span><br /><span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;color: #bbbbbb; margin-left: 20px\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($description)) . "</span></dt>";

[Lynne]

If you give us an idea of what you want it to look like, maybe we can help with the styling.

[TimberFloorAu]

To Be honest, I am getting to grips with the css. Still not sure how to apply hover to the links, when using inline style tho.

I am taking this one stage at a time tho.

My issue is,... perhaps its a cacheing issue.

1. when we load the external page initially, and it fetches the feed, it returns a blank page. When we refresh the page, it fetches the feed.

2. I would like to style the webpage/site of our new site to match as closely as possible the sister site we are fetching the feeds from.

...many more questions to come tho.

3. sample page here http://www.british-expats.com.au/index2.php , for some reason I cannot get it to echo the Author.

[Lynne]

1. It loaded fine for me, but seemed to load twice on it's own. You are missing stuff at the top of your html page, but I don't know if that is what is causing the issue. (Take a look at the page source for this page).

edit: whoops, spoke too soon. I just tried to reload it and got a blank page. Check your error_logs.

2. If you have permission, you can probably use their style sheet.

3. Weird that the author doesn't show up. Check that you copied the code correctly.

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Lynne

1. It loaded fine for me, but seemed to load twice on it's own. You are missing stuff at the top of your html page, but I don't know if that is what is causing the issue. (Take a look at the page source for this page).

edit: whoops, spoke too soon. I just tried to reload it and got a blank page. Check your error_logs.

2. If you have permission, you can probably use their style sheet.

3. Weird that the author doesn't show up. Check that you copied the code correctly.

Will do, i just did the html in editplus, and havent added compliance stuff etc.

I could contact the originator, and see what is the go. Not sure on the author part, was wondering if it was a vbseo issue. Does vbseo rewrite the forum id's within rss. Seems to if we use the explicit:

external.php?type=RSS2

when viewing the feed links they have been re-written.

So perhaps when supplying the feed via ext webpage, the rewrite is trying to rewrite what is already rewritten !! lol

So perhaps I should be parsing the feed as:

external.php?type=RSS2&f=barbie

instead of

external.php?type=RSS2&f=3

When I give the rewrite code as in =barbie ( name of a forum ) it seems to load immediately, with little or no lag or blank pages.

I am thinking perhaps this could be a contributing factor.

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Just an aside, :

1. when using external.php?type=RSS2&f=barbie if we click on a link in the feed, we dont get the pingback function.

if we use external.php?type=RSS2&f=3 we do ???

Also where do i add, target="_blank" to the links.

[Lynne]

I don't know anything about vbseo (except it seems to cause users a lot of problems ), so I can't help with that issue.

Regarding target="_blank", it goes in the <a> tag:

<a href='" . trim($link) . "' target=\"_blank\">

[TimberFloorAu]

Goodonya Lynne, I swear I tried that lol.

Ok 3 issues remain.

1. no author. Weird huh
2. blank page, then ok on refresh ( in FF havent tried IE or Chrome )
3. css hover for links, and visited.

Ste

[Lynne]

1. Post your code and maybe we can see why the author isn't showing up.

2. If you aren't having the problem by doing f=barbie, then just make the call that way.

3. I don't think you can do that with css inline. Maybe with javascript, but not css. You should define it on the bottom of your Main CSS page and then use that class in your code.

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Lynne

1. Post your code and maybe we can see why the author isn't showing up.

2. If you aren't having the problem by doing f=barbie, then just make the call that way.

3. I don't think you can do that with css inline. Maybe with javascript, but not css. You should define it on the bottom of your Main CSS page and then use that class in your code.

Thanks Lynne ( you really are a star you know )

Code is as follows:

<HTML>
 <HEAD>
  <TITLE> Test </TITLE>
  <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="EditPlus">
  <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
  <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="">
  <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="">
 
 </HEAD>

 <BODY>
 

<?php

// ######################################################
// ## configuration
 // ##
  
 $rss2_file = 'http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&f=barbie';
     
 // ## configuration end
 // ######################################################
 // ## Do not touch code below!
     
     
 $is_item = false;
 $tag = '';
 $title = '';
 $description = '';
 $link = '';
 $date = '';
 $author = '';
     
 function character_data($parser, $data)
 {
     global $is_item, $tag, $title, $description, $link, $date, $author;
     if ($is_item)
     {
         switch ($tag)
         {
             case "TITLE":
             $title .= $data;
             break;
     
             case "DESCRIPTION":
             $description .= $data;
             break;
     
             case "LINK":
             $link .= $data;
             break;
     
             case "PUBDATE":
             $date .= $data;
             break;
     
             case "AUTHOR":
             $author .= $data;
             break;
         }
     }
 }
     
 function begin_element($parser, $name)
 {
     global $is_item, $tag;
     if ($is_item)
     {
         $tag = $name;
     }
     else if ($name == "ITEM")
     {
         $is_item = true;
     }
 }
     
 function end_element($parser, $name)
 {
     global $is_item, $title, $description, $link, $date, $author, $rss2_output;
     if ($name == "ITEM")
     {
         $rss2_output .= "<dt><strong>
<a href='" . trim($link) . "'target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration: underline;color: #73a202; margin-left: 20px\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($title)) . "</span></a></strong> - <span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color: #92b5e7\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($date)) . "</span>  <span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color: #bbbbbb\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($author)) . "</span><br /><span style=\"font-family: sergo UI,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;color: #bbbbbb; margin-left: 20px\">" . htmlspecialchars(trim($description)) . "</span></dt><br />";
         $title = "";
         $description = "";
         $link = "";
         $date = "";
         $author = "";
         $is_item = false;
     }
 }
     
     
 $parser = xml_parser_create();
     
 xml_set_element_handler($parser, "begin_element", "end_element");
 xml_set_character_data_handler($parser, "character_data");
 $fp = fopen($rss2_file,"r");
     
 while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
 {
     xml_parse($parser, $data, feof($fp));        
 }
     
 fclose($fp);
 xml_parser_free($parser);
?>

<?php echo $rss2_output;?>
 </BODY>
</HTML>

[Lynne]

Change this line:

PHP Code:

             case "AUTHOR": 


To this:

PHP Code:

             case "DC:CREATOR":