Hi,
Is it possible to feed it with xml files on other servers, can you give an hint :)
Henk
Yes its possible to make the feed dir writable.
Thx Henk
Hi Henk,
Thanks for that - i'll produce a "plugin" that will enable remote fetching of a feed.
Great !!
And where can i find it when you're ready ;)
HEnk
Hiya,
I'm going to create a plugins section, which will probably have a tab along the top; as i've got a few enhancements which I don't want to include in the basic distribution in order to keep things simple.
Look out for it towards the middle of next week; although if you want to drop me an email (reply to your Magic Parser registration code email) i'll let you know as soon as it's ready.
Cheers,
David.
Hi Henk,
Thank you for your comments!
I think you are talking about the ability to have an admin screen from where you can enter the URL of a feed and automatically download that into your site (like the demo script on Magic Parser does).
I can supply code to do this; however it would be necessary for you to make your /feeds/ directory writable by PHP / Apache on your web server.
The reason I have not included this functionality in the distribution is because it does make the installation less straight forward than it is at present; and there are also other issues that come from remote retrieval of URLs, in particular the scenario in which authentication is required by the remote server; resulting in a page of HTML being downloaded rather than the feed.
Let me know if you are able to make a writable /feeds/ directory, and seeing as a number of users have now requested this feature i'll post some example code for creating a remote fetching script as an add-on to the Price Tapestry distribution.
Cheers,
David.