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Posted by iz0nlee on 05/10/05 21:02
excuse my ignorance but how do i chmod the folder, is can i do it from an
ftp prog or is it in the isp providers panel
thanks
"Andrew @ Rockface" <andrew@rockface-records.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Andrew wrote:
>> Download LastRSS and extract LastRSS into a conveinient directory, for
>> example in a folder called classes in the same directory as your page.
>>
>> <?php
>> include 'classes/lastRSS.php';
>> $rssfeed = new lastRSS;
>> /* see below on these next 2 lines */
>> $rssfeed->cache_dir = 'classes/rsscache';
>> $rssfeed->cache_time = 30*60;
>> $ascfeed =
>>
> $rssfeed->get('http://www.your.to/the/rss/feed/of/your/favourite/cheese.rss'
> );
>>>
>>
>> You're probably going to want the cache feature of this class created
>> a directory in classes called rsscache so you have /classes/rsscache/
>> and make sure it's chmodded to 777 so PHP can write to it.
>>
>> What you're left with is an associative array. You'll have to
>> formulate how to use this because obviously you want to fit it in
>> with your page. If you're unsure of how to use it, then I suggest
>> you checkout the PHP manual at http://www.php.net/array nearly
>> everything in the PHP manual is very well documented.
>>
>> It should be noted I typed this rather quickly after a quick scan down
>> the lastRSS class code (I never even downloaded it), so I might be
>> ignorant of some major functionality or requirements. Some things I
>> did notice about it are:
>>
>> - It doesn't seem to have much error control is something goes wrong
>> - It makes use of fopen for an URL without validation, meaning fopen
>> URL wrappers have to be and you shouldn't allow any way for visitors
>> to enter their own rss feed. (if intentionally or by accident)
>> - It uses regular expressions when PHP has several built in XML
>> parsers that'd do the job.
>>
>> But it'll get the job done, I hope i've been of a little help.
>
> Thanks for that. I was going to chop some of my code to post but then work
> got in the way :)
>
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> Andrew @ Rockface
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>
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