pausing RSS Scroller, not getting RSS feed

[gentryw]

Hmmm that's a feature request that will probably have to wait. It's certainly possible, and among the ideas I have for the alternate version of the original script.

Don't suppose I've waited long enough? :x: hehe

[ddadmin]

Lol sorry, not quite. Honestly this is probably low on my priority list, relative to some of the other scripts that really could use a makeover. FYI the script I'm currently working on updating is PHP Photo Album script due to the number of requests I've gotten from people on a few features they'd like to see.

[Zico]

I'm also having difficulty with this script.

I'm using GoDaddy for hosting and it's the free account so it adds the banners at the top of the page.

I used the following URL to test:

http://www.video-cycle.com/pre-view/html/scrollerbridge.php?id=motogp

And I received the following error:

rsscontentdata="Sorry: It's not possible to reach RSS file http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=motogp&output=rss"

I have observed files being created in the cache directory. Appears to be one for each Feed I have.

The content of each file is:
b:0;

If the files can be created, then it has access to write. So, I'm not sure if the chmod to 777 will make a difference.

Do ya think the GoDaddy free hosting banners is messing with everything? It would be costly for me to test to upgrade my account to "non free".

What else could be the problem?

Thanks,
Zico

[jgarvas]

The problem you're having is that the fopen() call in php is prohibited in most shared hosting environments. If its not entirely prohibited then its prohibited for URLs and allowed for files.

The solution for this would be to use magpieRSS since it uses a web client to get remote RSS files isntead of the fopen() command that lastRSS uses.

ddadmin: I played with trying to make this script use magpieRSS but I am not that talented. lastRSS is initiated as a class and magpieRSS is initated more as a function. If you could find it in your time to make this script use magpieRSS I know the world of shared hosting folks would be thrileld

I'm also having difficulty with this script.

I'm using GoDaddy for hosting and it's the free account so it adds the banners at the top of the page.

I used the following URL to test:

http://www.video-cycle.com/pre-view/html/scrollerbridge.php?id=motogp

And I received the following error:

rsscontentdata="Sorry: It's not possible to reach RSS file http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=motogp&output=rss"

I have observed files being created in the cache directory. Appears to be one for each Feed I have.

The content of each file is:
b:0;

If the files can be created, then it has access to write. So, I'm not sure if the chmod to 777 will make a difference.

Do ya think the GoDaddy free hosting banners is messing with everything? It would be costly for me to test to upgrade my account to "non free".

What else could be the problem?

Thanks,
Zico

[Zico]

Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.

[Turan]

Can you tell me please what is the window.onload action of this script? I can't find it I run 3 javascripts and I've created a little script like,

echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n"
		."function start() {\n"
		."	loadImages();\n"
		."	startscroll();\n"
		."}\n"
		."window.onload = start;\n"
		."</script>\n";

You can access the page here.

[nelsontimken]

The problem you're having is that the fopen() call in php is prohibited in most shared hosting environments. If its not entirely prohibited then its prohibited for URLs and allowed for files.

The solution for this would be to use magpieRSS since it uses a web client to get remote RSS files isntead of the fopen() command that lastRSS uses.

ddadmin: I played with trying to make this script use magpieRSS but I am not that talented. lastRSS is initiated as a class and magpieRSS is initated more as a function. If you could find it in your time to make this script use magpieRSS I know the world of shared hosting folks would be thrileld

Admin:

I too would be very grateful if the script could be rewritten to use magpie as well. My web host, dreamhost.com, has disabled the use of fopen and thus, this great RSS feed is unavailable to me.

Thanks.


Nelson