Comments on: Improve Your Phplist RSS-to-Email Feature By Using Simplepie Rather Than Onyx

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:26:06 +0000

@Bill — Excellent, I’m glad to hear it!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:32 +0000

Thank you so much for this…got it working great with 2.10.10! This would be a great (and easy) addition to the primary source.

By: weston

weston — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:49:53 +0000

I needed to do this recently for my website but found the problem with the feeds itself. And a solution that i came up with was to pass the feed through feedburner and that fixed it and i didn’t have to use your solution

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:31:09 +0000

Hi Michael,

Well, you haven’t given us very much to go on, but let’s see what we can do…

The first thing I would suggest checking is to verify that 2.11.3 is fully functional with its own RSS parsing: i.e., if you use the original getrss.php file, rather than the modified one, does it handle your feed alright? If you can verify that it works just fine without the changes to getrss.php, that makes it more likely that it’s something in the getrss.php which is causing you troubles.

The next thing I would suggest checking is to verify that Simplepie is fully functional when you’re calling it from the same location as getrss.php. You might drop a test file in next to getrss.php, for example, and see if it works; if it doesn’t, there could be a problem with the path specified, or with other permissions somewhere in your setup.

Finally, if phplist is definitely working without the modified getrss.php, and Simplepie is definitely working from the same location as getrss.php, then it’s time to go through getrss.php and check whether anything at all could have been altered in there besides the path (i.e., running a diff comparing the two).

Beyond that sort of systematic testing and verifying, with the aim of excluding possible problem sources one by one, I’m afraid I can’t offer much more.

Good luck!

All the best,
Greg

By: Michael Christopher

Michael Christopher — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:54:07 +0000

Oh, one other tidbit. The rss I’m pulling in is just one feed, http://blog.hittransition.com/rss.xml. (An rss 2.0 feed. I could instead use the Atom or rss 1.0 version.)

By: Michael Christopher

Michael Christopher — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:48:45 +0000

This is very cool, if I can just get it to work. Been using phplist for 3 years, just upgraded to 2.11.3 and tested. Got SimplePie working. But can’t seem to get the two working together. I edited your getrss.php with my path to simplepie.inc, but no dice. Any chance you could point me in the right direction? I’ll be doing some interesting things with this and will gladly share. Thanks in advance!

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:19:03 +0000

Hi there cyberagency,

Two things:

1) The code I’ve modified is ONLY intended to work with 2.11.3, NOT with 2.10.4.

2) In case you’re feeling extra-extra-brave and are deliberately trying to mix 2.10.4 with 2.11.3 modified, does your Simplepie installation work OK? I.e., have you tested it, and found that all is well with Simplepie, just not with Simplepie working with phplist?

All the best,
Greg

By: cyberagency

cyberagency — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:47:16 +0000

The getrss page only displays a “Parsing http://news.google.be/nwshp?tab=wn&q=&output=rss..” nothing else. Do you have a sugestion ?

The compatibility_test and demo of simplepie is OK and the path to simplepie.inc is also OK

Thanks for your feedback

By: cyberagency

cyberagency — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:44:04 +0000

I tested this approach with out success.

OK Simplepie is a great rss system but when I implement it in phplist 2.10.4 I have no success.

The getrss page only displays