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Discussion in 'Programming' started by rwhetsto, Mar 25, 2004.

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  1. #1
    I just implemented my 1st RSS feeds yesterday. Very cool! I used an espn feed for headline news on my homepage and I used a feed from Yahoo, which gives valid news results for the keywords NFL+draft. Located here:
    http://www.fantasyfootballjungle.com/
    and here, respectively:
    http://www.fantasyfootballjungle.com/news/draftnews.php

    Does anyone know why those <b> and </b> tags show up in the Yahoo! feed and, more to the point, what I can do to fix them. I know they're bold tags, but why don't they work properly.

    If anyone's interested I can talk a little bit about the discoveries I made on my quest to get the RSS feeds to work, otherwise I will save you the reading time.

    Thanks,
    Ryan
     
    rwhetsto, Mar 25, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    What is the URL for the feed? On your side, they are showing properly... because if you look in the source, they are like so:


    So need to figure out if it coming like that from Yahoo or it's being converted after the fact on your end.

    - Shawn
     
    digitalpoint, Mar 25, 2004 IP
  3. rwhetsto

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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    Looks like it's coming from Yahoo like that. If you want them to be bold, simply replace &gt; with > and &lt; with < in your PHP code... or just strip them off if you don't want them to be bold.

    - Shawn
     
    digitalpoint, Mar 25, 2004 IP
  5. rwhetsto

    rwhetsto Peon

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    Got it fixed, thanks!
     
    rwhetsto, Mar 25, 2004 IP
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    Shawn,

    with the code i used, it imports the feed with <b> in text format. Is there a way to block this from occuring>
     
    schlottke, Apr 15, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #7
    Aren't you filtering them out?

    - Shawn
     
    digitalpoint, Apr 15, 2004 IP
  8. schlottke

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    It isn't filtering the <b> out, how could I go about doing that?
     
    schlottke, Apr 15, 2004 IP
  9. rwhetsto

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    #9
    Use str_replace in the php code. Refer to this page for help http://www.php.net/str_replace

    I had to add these two lines to fix my problem:
    $errsym = array("&lt;b&gt;","&lt;/b&gt;");
    $zf_items[$i]['desc'] = str_replace($errsym, "", $zf_items[$i]['desc']);

    All it does it looks for &lt;b&gt; and &lt;/b&gt; and replaces them with a blank.
     
    rwhetsto, Apr 18, 2004 IP
  10. schlottke

    schlottke Peon

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    #10
    <html>

    <head>
    <title>College Wrestling News : Wrestling Articles : Iowa and Minnesota College

    Wrestling</title>
    <meta NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="The foremost leader in Internet Based Wrestling News.

    Live Chat, Video, Audio, News, Forums, and More. The best interactive experience

    online!">
    <meta NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="wrestling news high school wrestling news amateur wrestling

    news">
    <meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days">

    <meta name="rating" content="general">
    <meta name="Owner" content="Wrestling-Connection">
    </head>

    <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="black" vlink="black" alink="black">
    <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="636">
    <tr>
    <td width="700" height="79">
    <p><img src="http://www.wrestling-connection.com/images/wrestlingdirectory.gif"> - <a

    href="http://www.wrestling-connection.com">Wrestling Directory</a> I <a

    href="http://www.wrestling-connection.com/news/index.php">Wrestling News Main Page</a></p>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td width="700"><table align="center" border="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%"

    bordercolordark="white" bordercolorlight="black" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
    <td width="80%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="27">
    <p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000000">&nbsp;College Wrestling

    News</font></p>
    </td>
    </tr><tr>
    <td width="700">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="632">
    <tr>
    <td width="700">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="650">
    <tr>
    <td width="532">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="650">
    <tr>
    <td width="70%" valign="top">
    </td>
    </tr>
    <?php
    if( ! ($fp =

    fopen("http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.h

    tml?p=%5C%22college+wrestling%5C%22", "r" )) )
    die("Couldn't open xml file!");
    $item_counter = 0;
    $in_item_tag = 0;
    $mover_current_tag_state = '';
    $mover_headline_data = array();
    function startElementHandler( $parser, $element_name, $element_attribs )
    {
    global $item_counter;
    global $in_item_tag;
    global $mover_current_tag_state;
    global $mover_headline_data;
    if( $element_name == "ITEM" )
    {
    $in_item_tag = 1;
    }
    if( $in_item_tag == 1 )
    {
    $mover_current_tag_state = $element_name;
    }
    else
    {
    $mover_current_tag_state = '';
    }
    }
    function endElementHandler( $parser, $element_name )
    {
    global $item_counter;
    global $in_item_tag;
    global $mover_current_tag_state;
    global $mover_headline_data;
    $mover_current_tag_state = '';
    if( $element_name == "ITEM" )
    {
    $item_counter++;
    $in_item_tag = 0;
    }
    }
    function characterDataHandler( $parser , $data )
    {
    global $item_counter;
    global $in_item_tag;
    global $mover_current_tag_state;
    global $mover_headline_data;
    if( $mover_current_tag_state == '' || $in_item_tag == 0 )
    return;
    if( $mover_current_tag_state == "TITLE" ) {
    $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["title"] = $data;
    }
    if( $mover_current_tag_state == "LINK" ) {
    $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["link"] = $data;
    }
    if( $mover_current_tag_state == "DESCRIPTION" ) {
    $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["description"] = $data;
    }
    }
    if( !($xml_parser = xml_parser_create()) )
    die("Couldn't create XML parser!");

    xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElementHandler", "endElementHandler");
    xml_set_character_data_handler( $xml_parser , "characterDataHandler" );
    while( $data = fread($fp, 4096) )
    {
    if( !xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp)) )
    {
    break; // get out of while loop if we're done with the file
    }
    }
    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
    printf("<table>");
    printf("<tr><th><b>Source</b></th><th><b>Description</b></th></tr>");
    for($i=0 ;$i < 20 ; $i++)
    {

    printf("<tr><td><a href=\"%s\">%s\"</a></td><td> %s<br></td></tr>\n" ,

    $mover_headline_data[$i]["link"] ,


    $mover_headline_data[$i]["title"] ,


    $mover_headline_data[$i]["description"]

    );
    }
    printf("</table>");
    ?>



    What code would I add to remove the <b> </b> and where would it go?
     
    schlottke, Apr 18, 2004 IP
  11. rwhetsto

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    Try substituting the following :

    if( $mover_current_tag_state == "DESCRIPTION" ) {
    $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["description"] = $data;
    }

    with:

    if( $mover_current_tag_state == "DESCRIPTION" ) {
    $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["description"] = $data;
    $errsym = array("&lt;b&gt;","&lt;/b&gt;");
    $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["description"] = str_replace($errsym, "", $mover_headline_data[$item_counter]["description"]);
    }
     
    rwhetsto, Apr 19, 2004 IP
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    #12
    It doesn't work, just removes the source link and leaves the description still holding the tags.
     
    schlottke, Apr 19, 2004 IP
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  14. rwhetsto

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    #14
    I can't get the new php file to post. I will just email it to you
     
    rwhetsto, Apr 19, 2004 IP
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    it must have gotten emailed incorrectly cuz it didnt bring it up.
     
    schlottke, Apr 22, 2004 IP
  16. rwhetsto

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    Did you ever get it working? I will send the file again if you need it.
     
    rwhetsto, May 11, 2004 IP
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    #17
    Can you help me with the same problem? How would I configure this code to exclude the <b></b> tags?

    <?php
    define('MAGPIE_DIR', '/home/nkm1kt2/public_html/magpie/');

    require_once(MAGPIE_DIR.'rss_fetch.inc');
    $url = 'http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=roleplaying';
    if ( $url ) {$num_items = 5;
    $rss = fetch_rss( $url );
    $items = array_slice($rss->items, 1, $num_items);
    echo "<p>";
    foreach ($items as $item) {

    $href = $item['link'];
    $title = $item['title'];
    $description = $item['description'];
    $modified = $item['modified'];
    $atom_content = $item['atom_content'];

    echo "<a href=$href target='_blank'><b><u>$title</u></b></a><br>$modified$atom_content$description<br>";
    }
    echo "</p>";
    }


    ?>
     
    juicetyger, May 20, 2004 IP
  18. rwhetsto

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    #18
    I think this should work. Make sure the copy and paste works correctly. This only gets rid of the bold text in the description area, which is what I assume you want. Let me know how it works.

    <?php
    define('MAGPIE_DIR', '/home/nkm1kt2/public_html/magpie/');

    require_once(MAGPIE_DIR.'rss_fetch.inc');
    $url = 'http://news.search.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/news_story_search_rss/index.html?p=roleplaying';
    if ( $url ) {$num_items = 5;
    $rss = fetch_rss( $url );
    $items = array_slice($rss->items, 1, $num_items);
    echo "<p>";
    foreach ($items as $item) {

    $href = $item['link'];
    $title = $item['title'];
    $description = $item['description'];
    $modified = $item['modified'];
    $atom_content = $item['atom_content'];

    //added code to 'delete' the <b> and </b> tags
    $errsym = array("&lt;b&gt;","&lt;/b&gt;");
    $description = str_replace($errsym, "", $description);
    //end added code

    echo "<a href=$href target='_blank'><b><u>$title</u></b></a><br>$modified$atom_content$description<br>";
    }
    echo "</p>";
    }


    ?>
     
    rwhetsto, May 20, 2004 IP
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    #19
    That worked awesome! You rock. Here it is in action http://1km1kt.net

    Thanks,

    Keeton
     
    juicetyger, May 21, 2004 IP
  20. rwhetsto

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    Excellent, glad to hear it!
     
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