can anyone help me out with magpie?

I really need help to make this work,

in the installation file, it is not much, it seems to be simple, but why i can not make it work?

with some test and error and some info from this forum and others, here is what I did:

I made a folder off root called "rss_magp"
I made another folder off root called "cache", and chmod it to 777,

unzipped magpie 0.72 and upoladed all the folders and files into the "rss_magp" folder,

I made a php test page using DW as "test_mag.php"
and put the following codes in a table cell and upload the test page to root of my host
where my index page of site is( yes php works fine there):

 
<?php
 define('rss_magp', '/home/myusername/rss_magp/');
require_once('/home/myusername/rss_magp/rss_fetch.inc');

$url = 'http://www.articletrader.com/rss2.php?advanced=1&q=&type_of_feed=0&number_of_articles=5&sort_by=0&custom=Generate+Feed&c%5B%5D=23';
?>

Code (markup):

after resolving some error on not having a correct path, now I get no error,

but the page shows nothing, no article no error, nothing.
I did changed the feed couple of times, but same result.

what I did wrong I have no idea,
I did install Carp and it was easy and worked well, Now I want to try
magpie,

I even tried the code that mikelbeck suggested on another thread, still shows nothing,

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=28062&highlight=magpie

anyone can help me on this issue?

appreciate your help.

 

ok, I did missed a line of code i guess, this time the code looks like this:

 

<?php
 define('rss_magp', '/home/myusername/rss_magp/');
require_once('/home/myusername/rss_magp/rss_fetch.inc');

$rss = fetch_rss($url);

$url = 'http://www.articletrader.com/rss2.php?advanced=1&q=&type_of_feed=0&number_of_articles=5&sort_by=0&custom=Generate+Feed&c%5B%5D=23';
?>

Code (markup):

and I get this error:

Warning: MagpieRSS: fetch_rss called without a url in /home/myusername/rss_magp/rss_fetch.inc on line 238


and on line 238 of the file :

trigger_error( $errormsg, $lvl);

 

            if ( $errormsg ) {
            $errormsg = "MagpieRSS: $errormsg";
            $MAGPIE_ERROR = $errormsg;
            trigger_error( $errormsg, $lvl);                
            }
            }

Code (markup):

anyone have any clue?

thanks

 

OK,
Now it works,
I followed instruction on the following thread:

http://forums.seochat.com/blogs-tagging-rss-feeds-74/magpierss-help-48234.html


but i have no idea why it should be that much code in page instead.