Comments on: Building your own Alltop or PopURLs* http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/ The view from here Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:41:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: JL http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-1006 JL Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:06:26 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-1006 Hi, Never mind, I got this problem resolved. It was caused by a bug in PHP4, and upgrading to PHP5 solved it. Thanks! Hi,

Never mind, I got this problem resolved. It was caused by a bug in PHP4, and upgrading to PHP5 solved it.

Thanks!

]]> By: JL http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-1005 JL Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:41:56 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-1005 Hi, Thanks for the guide. I have installed SimplePie and the newsblock demo, however I am getting the following error: "cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()" ... on all except the last feed "Lessig Blog (JP)". CHMOD for my "cache" directory is set to 777. I'm trying to get it working here: http://www.zlect.com Please help! Thanks a lot. Hi,

Thanks for the guide. I have installed SimplePie and the newsblock demo, however I am getting the following error:

“cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()”

… on all except the last feed “Lessig Blog (JP)”.

CHMOD for my “cache” directory is set to 777.

I’m trying to get it working here: http://www.zlect.com

Please help! Thanks a lot.

]]> By: rshah21 http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-1003 rshah21 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:03:52 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-1003 you do have the extension enabled - the error message is one that indicates the webserver you are connecting to is down or reporting a 404. Easiest way to get rid of it is to check that feed is at the URL you are pointing at. If that doesn't work, then you can remove the feed totally. Disabling cURL will disable all of the functionality you do have the extension enabled - the error message is one that indicates the webserver you are connecting to is down or reporting a 404. Easiest way to get rid of it is to check that feed is at the URL you are pointing at. If that doesn’t work, then you can remove the feed totally. Disabling cURL will disable all of the functionality

]]> By: Enri http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-1001 Enri Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:26:31 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-1001 If I am getting the error " cURL error 7: couldn't connect to host " at the end of the last row, does it means that I have php extension curl enabled? If so, how can i disable it. Thanks for response If I am getting the error ” cURL error 7: couldn’t connect to host ” at the end of the last row, does it means that I have php extension curl enabled? If so, how can i disable it.

Thanks for response

]]> By: johnny http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-1000 johnny Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:36:34 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-1000 Thanks much! Thanks much!

]]> By: rshah21 http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-999 rshah21 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:42:07 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-999 I'm a little pressed for time, so I didn't do the exact research, but I believe the simplepie documentation tells you how to set the caching parameters per feed as a parameter. There should also be some configuration parameters about caching that you could find useful. I have seen a demo with loading placeholders linked off the simplepie website. Sorry that I'm a little pressed for time, but I wanted to get you going on the right direction I’m a little pressed for time, so I didn’t do the exact research, but I believe the simplepie documentation tells you how to set the caching parameters per feed as a parameter. There should also be some configuration parameters about caching that you could find useful.

I have seen a demo with loading placeholders linked off the simplepie website.

Sorry that I’m a little pressed for time, but I wanted to get you going on the right direction

]]> By: johnny http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-997 johnny Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:35:07 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-997 Thanks for the prompt reply. To get around it yesterday, I actually just commented out that error message in simplepie.inc down around line 1672, if I remember right. How do I ensure I am caching feeds? I've reduced the number of feeds and it still takes like 6 or 7 seconds for the page to load. Is it possible to speed up the rendering of the page? I've noticed NOTHING renders until EVERYTHING renders. Ideally, I think you'd want some sort of "loading" animation going for each feed and each animation is replaced with the feed once it comes in. Thanks for the prompt reply. To get around it yesterday, I actually just commented out that error message in simplepie.inc down around line 1672, if I remember right.

How do I ensure I am caching feeds? I’ve reduced the number of feeds and it still takes like 6 or 7 seconds for the page to load.

Is it possible to speed up the rendering of the page? I’ve noticed NOTHING renders until EVERYTHING renders.

Ideally, I think you’d want some sort of “loading” animation going for each feed and each animation is replaced with the feed once it comes in.

]]> By: rshah21 http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-996 rshah21 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:23:42 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-996 I believe that tailrank is having some issue with their feed. What's showing up is actually the cached version of the feed that SimplePie has locally. I'm getting the same error, but haven't had time to diagnose. If you want to, try to grab the rss feed itself and see if it parses correctly (either via a RSS validator or just by looking at it) I believe that tailrank is having some issue with their feed. What’s showing up is actually the cached version of the feed that SimplePie has locally. I’m getting the same error, but haven’t had time to diagnose.

If you want to, try to grab the rss feed itself and see if it parses correctly (either via a RSS validator or just by looking at it)

]]> By: johnny http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-995 johnny Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:35:30 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-995 Hey, thanks much for sharing this. Quick question for you....I'm getting the following error message: "A feed could not be found at http://rss.tailrank.com/posts" Yet that tailrank.com feed does show up! Is this just a problem with that particular feed for some reason? It isn't a huge problem, but the error message does kind of break the layout a bit. Hey, thanks much for sharing this. Quick question for you….I’m getting the following error message:

“A feed could not be found at http://rss.tailrank.com/posts“

Yet that tailrank.com feed does show up! Is this just a problem with that particular feed for some reason? It isn’t a huge problem, but the error message does kind of break the layout a bit.

]]> By: Robert MacEwan http://www.delic.com/blog/2008/04/11/building-your-own-alltop-or-popurls/#comment-992 Robert MacEwan Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:13:56 +0000 http://www.delic.com/blog/?p=55#comment-992 Any chance of there being a plugin for WordPress 2.6'ish? Being able to create special pages with feeds specific to each page would be helpful. Feel free to email if you have suggestions. I'll Digg and Stumble this to assist with me remembering the domain. Thanks macewan Any chance of there being a plugin for WordPress 2.6′ish? Being able to create special pages with feeds specific to each page would be helpful. Feel free to email if you have suggestions. I’ll Digg and Stumble this to assist with me remembering the domain.

Thanks
macewan

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