Creating a sheduled task from this code

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Thank you for the help, with the information you have supplied things now seem to work , great job..

Yes you are correct, its the Sheduled tasks, not the cpanel cron i was thinking of using..

I have edited the code as below, its not 100% i need to look at how it creates the build and publish date, it now however creates the rss feed..

Thankyou.

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(); 
 
$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."'"; 

$getevents=$vbulletin->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"); 
$count=0; 
if(!$vbulletin->db->num_rows($getevents)) 
{ 
} 
else 
{ 
WHILE ($events=$vbulletin->db->fetch_array($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);


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

--------------- Added [DATE]1358881129[/DATE] at [TIME]1358881129[/TIME] ---------------

Hello all.

Thankyou again for the help....But i am now stuck again...help

ok in the code above i had to do some things as if there was a ? or " in my event details then the rss page failed to load in the browser..

I did some checking and ? gets converted to £ and " gets converted to "

My new rss page then displays as it should.

If..

I use the rss widget code and enable the description to display the feed from inside the widget i get the symbols appear £ and " not ? and "

I was going to add some php to the template to find and replace, looks like i cant do this?

then i was looking at vb:raw and other areas like this?

how can i add some code to a template take {vb:raw item.description} and find and replace characters before it displays on the browser?

Many thanks in advance, below i will attach my new template code.

my rss file shows ? : http://www.bidefordmarket.co.uk/bide...teventlist.rss

My rss display shows the characters : http://www.bidefordmarket.co.uk

vbcms_widget_rss_pageb

PHP Code:

<div class="cms_widget">
    <div class="block">

    <!-- Rss Header -->
    <div class="cms_widget_header">
        <h3> <a href="{vb:raw rss_link}" target="_blank"> &nbsp;{vb:raw rss_title}</a></h3>
    </div>

    <!--  Rss Data  -->
    <div class="cms_widget_content widget_content">
        <!-- {vb:raw rss_description} -->

        <vb:each from="rss_items" key="id" value="item">
            <div class="cms_widget_post_bit widget_post_bit">
                <h4 class="cms_widget_post_header widget_post_header"><a href="{vb:raw item.link}" target="_blank">{vb:raw item.title}</a></h4>
            

                  {vb:raw item.description}
<br />
                <!--{vb:raw item.author} <br />
                -->
            </div>
        </vb:each>


    </div>

<vb:comment>
    <vb:if condition="$rss_more">
        <a href="{vb:raw rss_url}">{vb:rawphrase read_more}</a>
    </vb:if>
</vb:comment>

</div>
</div>