RSS Content not appearing in RSS Display Boxes

[rickpoet]

1) Script Title: RSS Display Boxes

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...rssdisplaybox/

3) Describe problem:

Hi, I think I have everything set up correctly...calling for one feed...not receiving any errors on the demo page or on the actual installed page, and I see the initialization...and then nothing...no content appears.

here's where I have the script
http://letmypeoplesing.com/blog-test.html

calling for this feed: feed://60bloggers.com/feed (also tried it with "http" instead of "feed".

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Rick

[ddadmin]

Most likely PHP on your server has url_fopen_disabled turned on and Curl disabled. Either of these two modules are needed for the script to be able to fetch the contents of an external fileI say this because when I try to directly output the RSS feed with ID "bloggers", it returns a blank page: http://letmypeoplesing.com/rssbox/main.php?id=bloggers I may be wrong, but it looks like it. To make sure, check the cache directory of the script to see if the script has managed to actually retrieve any files.

[rickpoet]

Hi,

I just checked the cache and there were no files in it. Does that still point to these PHP modules.

To clarify:

url_fopen_disabled should be DISABLED

and CURL should be ENABLED?

(or was 'disabled' not supposed to be part of "URL_FOPEN")

Thanks,

Rick

[rickpoet]

OK, I just check the PHP ini file and both of those modules are present and ON.

Any other suggestions?

[ddadmin]

With Curl enabled, it should work regardless of the other setting. Did you chmod /rss/cache to 777?

[rickpoet]

It's rssbox/cache (not rss/cache) right?

Yes, that folder's permissions are set to 777 (and the rssbox folder is set to 755)

[rickpoet]

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[ddadmin]

Hmm the fact that your cache/ directory is empty does mean that the script is having trouble fetching the RSS feeds, which is the first step before even the script does anything with that data. Since you said your server has Curl enabled, that stage should be working. Have you tried running the compatibility PHP script within the Simpiepie directory? It might give you clues as to what the problem is.

[rickpoet]

Hi,

Yes, I ran the compatibility test and received the message "You have everything you need to run SimplePie properly! Congratulations!"

Though the version of Curl is different...it says I have "7.13.2" and it should be "7.10.5"

http://letmypeoplesing.com/simplepie...ility_test.php

But the compatibility test did say my webhost has its act together which, at least, is reassuring on some level.

[ddadmin]

This is strange indeed. What's the URL to the feed you're trying to display, as referenced by the ID "bloggers" in main.php?