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I'm stumped.

I'm trying to display this feed, daily_routeword, in a portal block.

All that's being dispalyed however, is a bulleted list item linking to Routeworld.

I tried installing the updated Feed Writer Classes (which I'm not entirely sure I did correctly... I'll discuss that next) and I've also tried some other suggestions that I've found from searching in the forums and in the documentation regarding rss feeds, but the same output occurs regardless of what I do.

I really think that I probably messed up the install of the updated Feed classes. I originally downloaded it from geeklog.net, but was unable to get that download to unpack (I'm not sure if that's because I'm on a Windows machine at work and don't have access to anything other than winzip or because the file itself is bad.) So I downloaded it from the authors site... has the f bomb in the link so I can't put the link up here without it being censored...

I uploaded it to my system/classes/ folder.
and tried but it was a no go...

The file that I downloaded from his site was a txt file, but I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a php file, so I added .php to the end of it and deleted the two lines above where php started... here's what I mean...

(most of the stuff I cut out isn't showing in the code... it was...

atom.feed.class.php 0100700 0001753 0001001 00000023371 10035756736 013564 0 ustar Michael None )

continued on, but I didn't change anything below this... anyway I changed it to


still no go...
So then I tried renaming the file to atom.feed.class.php
still no go...

I tried a couple of other little things, with the block creation, name of the file, full content of the file, ect... but nothing panned out.

I'm at a loss and any help would be great... If I haven't explained something well or more info is needed I'll put it up, but I can't think of what else might be needed.
Thanks
Jon

Erm, in order to READ a feed, you're installing feed WRITER classes ... See the problem?

Geeklog itself will currently only display the headlines of a feed, not the contents. If you search around, there are a few alternative solutions, although I don't know if any of those display the content.

I think there was something (by Squatty?) to display feeds on a separate page as well as a hack to display them in static pages (so that you could have them in a center block) ...

bye, Dirk

that makes sense... I just got it in my head that that would fix it... I'll look at what squatty has.

thanks
jon