On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Geert Wissink wrote:

i'm trying to implement the rss-feed from the recent changes pages on the portal of our organisation. I user magpie rss (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/)_ which works seemlessly with the rss-feed of my weblog (movable type). The recentchanges rss feed is defined as followed: namewiki/index.php?title=Speciaal:Recentchanges&feed=rss

It works in rss readers (Firefox) but doesn't work with magpie. Has anybody succeeded in implementing the feed on a webpage (not necessarily with magpie)?

It might help if you could give some details, such as: * What version of magpie are you using? * What PHP version? Any relevant configuration options? * What is the exact code you've tried running? * In what way does it not work? Error messages? Ugly display?

I downloaded magpierss 0.71, and wrote this quick test script to pull my test server's recentchanges RSS feed. (PHP 4.3.9 on Mac OS X) It seems capable of parsing the feed, and the dump shows a nice object containing the items in my feed:

<?php require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc'); $url = "http://verda-majo.local./~brion/rel1.4/index.php?title=Special: Recentchanges&feed=rss"; $rss = fetch_rss($url); var_dump( $rss ); ?>

One thing I did notice is that magpie sets a five-second default timeout. If your feed takes longer to generate it may be hitting the timeout, in which case it may show a PHP warning message and not return results.

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