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« on: June 18, 2006, 11:03:38 AM +0100 » |
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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 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.  |
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2006, 11:17:55 AM +0100 » |
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Nice feature Dave  |
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2006, 11:35:45 AM +0100 » |
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Added it to the Team Shark website.
Formatting is a bit odd, not very readable. Is there someway to improve that?
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 11:40:25 AM +0100 » |
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Nice one Dave, thanks.
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2006, 11:48:38 AM +0100 » |
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Added it to the Team Shark website.
Formatting is a bit odd, not very readable. Is there someway to improve that?
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. 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? |
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2006, 12:00:29 PM +0100 » |
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RIght, as a bit of an experiment (like everything on SRou  ) 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.  |
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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2006, 12:56:04 PM +0100 » |
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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 ?
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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2006, 01:25:56 PM +0100 » |
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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=12However all it gives me is a pop up to the team page, where should it point for the feed ? |
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2006, 01:38:27 PM +0100 » |
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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2006, 01:59:11 PM +0100 » |
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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2006, 02:10:01 PM +0100 » |
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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. :'( |
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2006, 03:31:55 PM +0100 » |
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Yeah i've found it a bit buggy, sometimes it works as advertised sometimes not, generally I put it down to my incompetence, lol.
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« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2006, 03:13:00 PM +0100 » |
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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.
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« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2006, 04:22:16 PM +0100 » |
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Too bad you missed UKGTR Endurance Season 3, NGT - pos. 1, points 24. Now and never again.  TT |
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« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2006, 05:25:28 PM +0100 » |
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Top job dave, much appreciated. Now all youve got to do sort out is the team drivers leaderboard |
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