[Pligg 8.2.0] Submit a feed automatically : The recap

[thedude]

Does this code check for duplicate links? I can have the cron job run once a day, but if the RSS is not updated, would it add the links again or just ignore the old links and add new links, if any?

Thanks

Originally Posted by dwg

Using Magpierss, here is something quick and dirty that seems to work for me. Not sure how to get the tags inserted, but the rest should work. Just set it up as a cron.

<?
require('../magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');

include('config.php');
require(mnminclude.'link.php');

$rss_feeds=array (
        array(
                'url'=>"http://digg.com/rss/index.xml",
                'category'=>7,
                'author'=>16,
//              'tags'=>'
        ),
);


echo "<ul>\n";
foreach ($rss_feeds as $feed ) {
$rss = fetch_rss($feed['url']);
echo "<li>Site: ", $rss->channel['title'], "<br>\n";
foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
        $item['author']=$feed['author'];
        $item['category']=$feed['category'];
 
        $title = $item[title];
        $desc= $item[description];

        echo "<ul>";
        echo "<li>Processing <a href=$url>$title</a></li>\n";
        rss_store($item);
        echo "<li>Finished Processing <a href=$url>$title</a></li><br><br/>\n\n";
        echo "</ul>";

}

echo "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";


function rss_store($item) {

        $linkres=new Link;

        $edit = false;
        $linkres->get(trim($item['link']));

        if(!$linkres->valid) {
                rss_error($item['link']);
                return;
        }

        if($linkres->duplicates($item['link']) > 0) {
                rss_error($item['url']);
                return;
        }
        $linkres->status='discard';
        $linkres->author=$item['author'];

        $linkres->title=$item['title'];
        $linkres->content=$item['description'];


        $linkres->id=0;
        $linkres->category=$item['category'];
        $linkres->randkey=rand(10000,10000000);
        $linkres->read();
        $linkres->status='queued';
        $linkres->store();
        return;
}

function rss_error($url){
        echo "Skipped $url <br/>\n";
}


?>

[thedude]

never mind. Find out that it does check for duplicates, which is great!!

[orochi]

any chance you could make it so anything submited by feeds is automatically published?

[crackah]

im getting an error message. any one know how to help me?

Warning: require(/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.dickon/crackers1/www.bombconstruction.com/rssfeed.php on line 5

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/.dickon/crackers1/www.bombconstruction.com/rssfeed.php on line 5

*EDIT**************

it magically works now.. mmhmm... okay...

http://bombconstruction.com/shakeit.php

have a look at some of the article titles... eg...
Lilly: Drug cuts diabetics' %&#vision loss - CNN

how do i fix that?

[agiacosa]

OK, so I need to install Magpie for this?

[savant]

crackah

the url seems to be encoded.
when it is out it should be decoded.

try this:

/libs/link.php

$smarty->assign('url_short', $url_short);

replace this with

$smarty->assign('url_short', urldecode($url_short));

but i dunno how safe that is.
will find out.

[skiper]

I got this error when setting a cron jobs..

/bin/sh: line 1: www.domain.com/magpierss/mycronjob.php: No such file or directory

question :
How do i set a cron job ?
do i need to point to that phpfile ?

[skiper]

Finally It worked, my path is incorrect thats why i encountered my problem

thanks...

how can I limit the amount of item to be posted for example
I only want to get 3 items per site.

[can8dn]

hmm I wonder if you could have it post but tag it as a discarded story so it does not show up.. then.. with some kind of admin panel.. go in and have a looksy what it is giving you under that user name.. tick the ones you want to show up.. and un discard them.. edit the titles etc before introducing them... a little more work but gives the more human look to them.. no??

[juicecowboy]

Need help with this--

It works excellent. one thing - on initial import, there are like 10 stories. I usually discard many of them (so that user-submitted stories don't get buried in the queue). On the next import, it picks up the "discard" stories again and puts them in the queue. It makes for alot of work with mysqladmin but if the script could include "discarded" stories in the duplicate checking that would be great.

I'm not much of a coder but I'm hoping this isn't hard. Could someone give me a quick tutorial on how to make this script check queued and discard stories?