Hello everyone,

Just registered an account with webmaster-talk after spending hours searching for a solution to my problem.

I downloaded Smarty and MagpieRSS used to make running RSS Feeds really easy. It works fine if I want all the news scripts to show up, it also works fine if I want one.

I want to have 1-3 news feeds on front page. 8-10 on individual page.

Doing some research on my own, for hours. I discovered a few 'solutions' to limit the amount of items parsed by magpierss. I just can't seem to get it to work, here is what I was told to do:

You want to display the 10 (or 3) most recent headlines, but the RSS feed
contains 15.

SOLUTION:

$num_items = 10;
$rss = fetch_rss($url);

$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items);

Here is my code:

<?
$mydir = "/rss";

require_once($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir."/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php");
require_once($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir."/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc");

$tpl = new Smarty();

$tpl->template_dir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir.'/templates/';
$tpl->compile_dir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir.'/templates_c/';
$tpl->config_dir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir.'/configs/';
$tpl->cache_dir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir.'/cache/';

$url = "http://www.abc.net.au/news/indexes/westernvic/rss.xml";

$num_items = 10;
$rss = fetch_rss($url);

$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items);

// echo "<pre>"; print_r($rss); echo "</pre>";

if ($rss) { 

define('magpie_cache_age', 1800); # 30 x 60 = 1800 seconds

$tpl->assign("feedtitle",$rss->channel["title"]);

$tpl->assign("items",$rss->items);
}
else {

$tpl->assign("feedtitle","Problem with: $url");
}



$feedhtml = $tpl->fetch($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$mydir."/templates/newslist.html");

echo $feedhtml;
?>

Thanks in advance if we are able to find a solution.

- Solipsist

I only played with magpie for a while before I used another script. The actual limit on the items is controlled in the // RSS to HTML webpage script v.1.2 on line 37.

You can modify or adapt that code to your purpose:

// RSS to HTML webpage script v.1.2
//
// Copyright 2002-2006 ExtraLabs Software
//
// Website: http://www.extralabs.net
// Support: support@extralabs.net
//
// License: Freeware
// This script may be used freely for business or personal use
Line 37 in the script:
// the next line controls the maximum number of items retrieved
$FeedMaxItems = 5;
if (isset($_REQUEST["MAXITEMS"])) {
$FeedMaxItems = $_REQUEST["MAXITEMS"];
}

Note it still fetchs them all but you limit what is displayed.