Ive done a bit of investigating and believe I've found a fix.
The reason for the problem is the formatting of the date within the RSS feed structure. The sample feeds used in the Advanced RSS Ticker demo pack, and the scripts which parse the results, all use <pubDate>. However, the RSS feed that you're using uses <dc:date>.
The easiest fix is to change the date tag in the lastRSS.php file - just the 2 changes in red should do it;
<?php
/*
======================================================================
lastRSS 0.9.1
Simple yet powerfull PHP class to parse RSS files.
by Vojtech Semecky, webmaster @ webdot . cz
Latest version, features, manual and examples:
http://lastrss.webdot.cz/
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LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
To read the license please visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
======================================================================
*/
/**
* lastRSS
* Simple yet powerfull PHP class to parse RSS files.
*/
class lastRSS {
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Public properties
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
var $default_cp = 'UTF-8';
var $CDATA = 'nochange';
var $cp = '';
var $items_limit = 0;
var $stripHTML = False;
var $date_format = '';
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Private variables
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
var $channeltags = array ('title', 'link', 'description', 'language', 'copyright', 'managingEditor', 'webMaster', 'lastBuildDate', 'rating', 'docs');
var $itemtags = array('title', 'link', 'description', 'author', 'category', 'comments', 'enclosure', 'guid', 'dc:date', 'source');
var $imagetags = array('title', 'url', 'link', 'width', 'height');
var $textinputtags = array('title', 'description', 'name', 'link');
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Parse RSS file and returns associative array.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
function Get ($rss_url) {
// If CACHE ENABLED
if ($this->cache_dir != '') {
$cache_file = $this->cache_dir . '/rsscache_' . md5($rss_url);
$timedif = @(time() - filemtime($cache_file));
if ($timedif < $this->cache_time) {
// cached file is fresh enough, return cached array
$result = unserialize(join('', file($cache_file)));
// set 'cached' to 1 only if cached file is correct
if ($result) $result['cached'] = 1;
} else {
// cached file is too old, create new
$result = $this->Parse($rss_url);
$serialized = serialize($result);
if ($f = @fopen($cache_file, 'w')) {
fwrite ($f, $serialized, strlen($serialized));
fclose($f);
}
if ($result) $result['cached'] = 0;
}
}
// If CACHE DISABLED >> load and parse the file directly
else {
$result = $this->Parse($rss_url);
if ($result) $result['cached'] = 0;
}
// return result
return $result;
}
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Modification of preg_match(); return trimed field with index 1
// from 'classic' preg_match() array output
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
function my_preg_match ($pattern, $subject) {
// start regullar expression
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $out);
// if there is some result... process it and return it
if(isset($out[1])) {
// Process CDATA (if present)
if ($this->CDATA == 'content') { // Get CDATA content (without CDATA tag)
$out[1] = strtr($out[1], array('<![CDATA['=>'', ']]>'=>''));
} elseif ($this->CDATA == 'strip') { // Strip CDATA
$out[1] = strtr($out[1], array('<![CDATA['=>'', ']]>'=>''));
}
// If code page is set convert character encoding to required
if ($this->cp != '')
//$out[1] = $this->MyConvertEncoding($this->rsscp, $this->cp, $out[1]);
$out[1] = iconv($this->rsscp, $this->cp.'//TRANSLIT', $out[1]);
// Return result
return trim($out[1]);
} else {
// if there is NO result, return empty string
return '';
}
}
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Replace HTML entities &something; by real characters
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
function unhtmlentities ($string) {
// Get HTML entities table
$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES);
// Flip keys<==>values
$trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl);
// Add support for ' entity (missing in HTML_ENTITIES)
$trans_tbl += array(''' => "'");
// Replace entities by values
return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl);
}
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// Parse() is private method used by Get() to load and parse RSS file.
// Don't use Parse() in your scripts - use Get($rss_file) instead.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------
function Parse ($rss_url) {
// Open and load RSS file
if ($f = @fopen($rss_url, 'r')) {
$rss_content = '';
while (!feof($f)) {
$rss_content .= fgets($f, 4096);
}
fclose($f);
// Parse document encoding
$result['encoding'] = $this->my_preg_match("'encoding=[\'\"](.*?)[\'\"]'si", $rss_content);
// if document codepage is specified, use it
if ($result['encoding'] != '')
{ $this->rsscp = $result['encoding']; } // This is used in my_preg_match()
// otherwise use the default codepage
else
{ $this->rsscp = $this->default_cp; } // This is used in my_preg_match()
// Parse CHANNEL info
preg_match("'<channel.*?>(.*?)</channel>'si", $rss_content, $out_channel);
foreach($this->channeltags as $channeltag)
{
$temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$channeltag.*?>(.*?)</$channeltag>'si", $out_channel[1]);
if ($temp != '') $result[$channeltag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
}
// If date_format is specified and lastBuildDate is valid
if ($this->date_format != '' && ($timestamp = strtotime($result['lastBuildDate'])) !==-1) {
// convert lastBuildDate to specified date format
$result['lastBuildDate'] = date($this->date_format, $timestamp);
}
// Parse TEXTINPUT info
preg_match("'<textinput(|[^>]*[^/])>(.*?)</textinput>'si", $rss_content, $out_textinfo);
// This a little strange regexp means:
// Look for tag <textinput> with or without any attributes, but skip truncated version <textinput /> (it's not beggining tag)
if (isset($out_textinfo[2])) {
foreach($this->textinputtags as $textinputtag) {
$temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$textinputtag.*?>(.*?)</$textinputtag>'si", $out_textinfo[2]);
if ($temp != '') $result['textinput_'.$textinputtag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
}
}
// Parse IMAGE info
preg_match("'<image.*?>(.*?)</image>'si", $rss_content, $out_imageinfo);
if (isset($out_imageinfo[1])) {
foreach($this->imagetags as $imagetag) {
$temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$imagetag.*?>(.*?)</$imagetag>'si", $out_imageinfo[1]);
if ($temp != '') $result['image_'.$imagetag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
}
}
// Parse ITEMS
preg_match_all("'<item(| .*?)>(.*?)</item>'si", $rss_content, $items);
$rss_items = $items[2];
$i = 0;
$result['items'] = array(); // create array even if there are no items
foreach($rss_items as $rss_item) {
// If number of items is lower then limit: Parse one item
if ($i < $this->items_limit || $this->items_limit == 0) {
foreach($this->itemtags as $itemtag) {
$temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$itemtag.*?>(.*?)</$itemtag>'si", $rss_item);
if ($temp != '') $result['items'][$i][$itemtag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
}
// Strip HTML tags and other bullshit from DESCRIPTION
if ($this->stripHTML && $result['items'][$i]['description'])
$result['items'][$i]['description'] = strip_tags($this->unhtmlentities(strip_tags($result['items'][$i]['description'])));
// Strip HTML tags and other bullshit from TITLE
if ($this->stripHTML && $result['items'][$i]['title'])
$result['items'][$i]['title'] = strip_tags($this->unhtmlentities(strip_tags($result['items'][$i]['title'])));
// If date_format is specified and pubDate is valid
if ($this->date_format != '' && ($timestamp = strtotime($result['items'][$i]['dc:date'])) !==-1) {
// convert pubDate to specified date format
$result['items'][$i]['pubDate'] = date($this->date_format, $timestamp);
}
// Item counter
$i++;
}
}
$result['items_count'] = $i;
return $result;
}
else // Error in opening return False
{
return False;
}
}
}
?>
The down side to this is that if you are displaying other RSS feeds on your page that use <pubDate>, they will now no longer parse because <pubDate> has been replaced with <dc:date>
Continued in next post due to character limit...