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For those with their own team websites, I've developed a simple RSS feed for each team which gives a brief summary of the team's recents results which you can include automagically on your own site.

To get the URL for the feed, click on your team name on the Teams page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&teams=null) and then on the RSS button next to the Statistics title.

I'll be adding more data, like championship positions, to the feed as I work out what and how. ;)

Nice feature Dave  :)

Added it to the Team Shark website.

Formatting is a bit odd, not very readable. Is there someway to improve that?

Nice one Dave, thanks.

It's not really possible to do anything more than very basic formatting because most readers limit the amount of text in the description tag quite severely. Looking at the Team Shark site it's not doing a particularly good job of formatting the feed; check out the difference in formatting from the UKrF test page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&group=16). It would appear that Mambo doesn't really cope very well with the title element which was new in RSS 2.0.

Is there a need for RSS 0.92 support I wonder?

RIght, as a bit of an experiment (like everything on SRou :P) I've added an RSS 0.92 mode. Add "&rss=0.92" to the end of the URL, so for Team Shark use https://www.simracing.org.uk/lm2/rss.php?team=1&rss=0.92. That chops out the title link and title of each item.

The MkPortal RSS reader has its own problem in that the title doesn't work unless the link element is also present. ::)

Cant get the damn thing to work.
Correct me if i'm wrong.
Tried a new php block, no good.
Tried a new html block, no good.
Both of these just display all the xml version text ect.

Created a new .rss in the cache folder and pointed the original .rss block to it.  Great worked for about 30 secs then defaulted to reuters news feed.

What am I doing wrong Dave ?

Ok might have realised where i'm going wrong.
In the portal cp there are some options for rss, this was pointing to reuters for the feed.
I have changed it too :
https://www.simracing.org.uk/index.php?ind=lm2&team=12

However all it gives me is a pop up to the team page, where should it point for the feed ?

My guess is https://www.simracing.org.uk/lm2/rss.php?team=12 Greg

Yep worked, thanks mate. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I've since found another couple of bugs in the MkPortal RSS reader. >:( I regret ever deciding to use a "proper" portal instead of making my own template system. :'(

Yeah i've found it a bit buggy, sometimes it works as advertised sometimes not, generally I put it down to my incompetence, lol.

Okay, new version up now which includes the last few championship positions and points and the team immediately above and below the one in question.

Too bad you missed UKGTR Endurance Season 3, NGT - pos. 1, points 24.  ;)

Now and never again.  ;D

TT

Top job dave, much appreciated.  Now all youve got to do sort out is the team drivers leaderboard  ;)

You gotta have special witts to be able to make magic as you do Dave. Me I'm just happy to consume it all. Now I know why joined and why I stay in UKGTR. Top job, Dave, as allways.  :notworthy:

TT

P.S. Never mind my adverse posts. I'm just a grumpy old crow.  ;)

Guess what. ;)

Dave, I'm not sure if you are aware of this but the team RSS feed as well as the calendar RSS feed are down.

I'm getting the following error;

Both fixed, along with the Google Earth KML file generation. Thanks for the report.

Thanks Dave, all working again :)

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.36 Server at simracing.ukgtr.org Port 80


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got this message last week (two days in a row, randomly, forgot to notify u)

The server had a wobble last week when the silly sods 'upgraded' MySQL without any warning.

WTF?!