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[voicesfrombeyond]

Thank you for your patience with me on this. I appreciate it. I wanted to come back to report that it is working now. As it turned out, my suspicions were right. The problem was with inconsistent setup and instructions.

I finally received a warning message which gave me the clue about what was going on. The problem was in main.php. It was referencing ../simplepie/simplepie.inc. Of course I didn't have such a folder. Once I created it and moved simplepie.inc to it, all worked. Hope this helps someone else.

Now, another curious and general question: Is there a way to display the articles on my site rather than taking the visitor to the articles source web site?

Here's the working link: http://www.voicesfrombeyond.com/feed1.shtml

Thank you.

[ddadmin]

As it turned out, my suspicions were right. The problem was with inconsistent setup and instructions. I finally received a warning message which gave me the clue about what was going on. The problem was in main.php. It was referencing ../simplepie/simplepie.inc. Of course I didn't have such a folder. Once I created it and moved simplepie.inc to it, all worked.

I'm not sure how this is inconsistent with the instructions. As mentioned, the original directory structure of the zip file is as follows:

demo.htm: working demo page of RSS display boxes
rssbox/rssdisplaybox.js
rssbox/virtualpaginate.js
rssbox/rssdisplaybox.css
rssbox/main.php
rssbox/outputbody.php
rssbox/loading.gif
rssbox/cache/ directory. Chmod 777 or 755!
simplepie/ directory, which contains the files that make up the SimplePie package

So by default, main.php looks for simplepie.inc in ../simplepie/simplepie.inc. By keeping the original structure of the files when you upload them, you don't need to touch any file paths referenced.

Now, another curious and general question: Is there a way to display the articles on my site rather than taking the visitor to the articles source web site?

Hmm unfortunately no. The purpose of an RSS feed is to syndicate a site's content headlines, not the actual content. There's no incentive- only drawbacks- for a site offering their RSS feeds to allow their actual content to be syndicated as well.

[voicesfrombeyond]

Another thing. I went to check my log file and found pages and pages of error log regarding cache not writeable. Yes, I did CHMOD it to 755. How do I turn the cache on and off to stop my log file from getting too big too quickly?

[ddadmin]

755 may not do the trick depending on how your server is set up. Have you tried chmodding it 777?

[voicesfrombeyond]

I use ipowerweb and they require 755. I currently run other cgi and php scripts and only 755 works, according to their tech support. But, I will try 777 tonight. If this fails, is there something else I need to check?

[ddadmin]

If you can't chmod your directory to 777, you may want to try browsing the docs at Simplepie.org to see if there is a workaround. One helpful resource is their forum.

[voicesfrombeyond]

Thanks. The solution "jumped out at me." It appears to be a known bug. Here's the link: http://simplepie.org/support/viewtopic.php?id=460

Also, I realize now why instructions were so confusing to me. I download the original simplepie from that site, with instructions to create "php" and "cache" folders in my root directory. Then I read about rrsbox, downloaded it, and trying to follow the instructions, appeared confusing from where I started. Sorry for the confusion.