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• Write permissions with Codeigniter + Simplepie

  - by Malachi

  I am trying to create a simple RSS parser using the two frameworks. However I am getting PHPerrors when trying to write to my cache directory: set_cache_location(APPPATH.'cache/rss'); I am running windows 7 with XAMPP using the latest version of Simplepie from github error: A PHP Error was encountered Severity: User Warning Message: C:\xampp\htdocs\geekurls/system/application/cache/rss is not writeable. Make sure you've set the correct relative or absolute path, and that the location is server-writable. Filename: libraries/simplepie.php Line Number: 1732

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• SimplePie not parsing flickr feed

  - by mn

  I am trying to use SimplePie to pull a group pool flickr feed: $feed = new SimplePie(); $feed->set_feed_url('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=25938750@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200'); $feed->init(); $feed->handle_content_type(); Then I use typical SimplePie php calls to loop through the feed items. However, nothing is returned. The HTML is there, but the feed elements aren't inserted. When I try to use a flickr feed of tags, like: $feed->set_feed_url('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=architecture,building&lang=en-us&format=rss_200'); I get back a list of photos from the public photo feed, but the tags aren't taken into account. Any ideas? The only thing I can think of is I need an API key, but there is nothing on the flickr website that indicates a key is needed for feed calls. Plus, I can open both types of feeds in my browser and get the feed I am looking for.

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• Simplepie - fetch feeds from database

  - by krike

  I want to fetch multiple feeds from the database and in so doing fetch all new content from those feeds it works but there is a problem and I have no idea what's causing it, this is the code: $feed_sql = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT feed from tutorial_feed WHERE approved=1"); $feeds = array(); $i = 0; while($feed_r = mysqli_fetch_object($feed_sql)): $feeds[$i] .= $feed_r->feed; $i++; endwhile; $feed = new SimplePie($feeds); $feed-handle_content_type(); foreach($feed-get_items(0, 100) as $item) : echo $item-get_permalink().""; endforeach; I first get Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 3 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 4 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 5 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 6 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 7 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 8 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 9 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 Notice: Undefined offset: 10 in I:\wamp\www\cmstut\includes\cron.php on line 22 and then it will start printing the permalinks to the new content based on the imported feeds, I know undefined offset means it does not exist but I don't get it, any help would be appreciated

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• Add Flickr RSS feed to Page via SimplePie

  - by Bradley Bell

  Hi all. I'm trying to add my recently uploaded flickr feed onto a site. I've followed tutorials with Simple Pie, but can't get what I desire. I need to be able dictate where each image will sit in multiple DIV's rather than just one repeated DIV. Here is a website which seems to do what I want.. wearecondiment.com It basically updates the Static URL inside each seperate DIV.. I cant find the PHP anywhere in there code. Here is the site I plan to add this feature to.. "http://www.openyourheart.org.uk" I'll make a new page and template of square DIVs where each photo will sit. The aim of it will basically be so that people can upload their own images to display in the campaign and automatically appear on the site. It would also be great if somehow the image could crop to the size of each square/rectangle. Any ideas? Cheers, Bradley

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• div automatically added in $item->get_description(); using simplepie

  - by Carey Estes

  I am getting a div that is appearing in the output from calling a RSS feed. It is ignoring my attempts to wrap it in a paragraph tag and pushes the data out to the div. foreach ($feed->get_items(0 , 3) as $item): $feedDescription = $item->get_content(); $image = returnImage($feedDescription); $image = scrapeImage($image); $image_url= $item->get_permalink(); $description = $item->get_description(); ?> <div class="item"> <h4><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h4> <div class="image-box"><?php echo '<a href="' . $image_url . '"><img src="' . $image . '" /></a>'."\n";?></div> <p><?php echo $description ?></p> <p><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>">Continue Reading</a></p> </div> <?php endforeach; ?> Here is the html output: <div class="item"> <h4><a href="#">Lorem Ipsum</a></h4> <div class="image-box"><a href="#"><img src="image.jpg"></a> </div> <p></p> <div>Lorem Ipsum description [...]</div> <p></p> <p><a href="#">Continue Reading</a></p> </div> Why does the description call add a div tag and not get wrapped in the paragraph tag?

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• Foreach is crashing script, but no errors reported.

  - by ILMV

  So I've created this smarty function to get images from my flickr photostream using SimplePie... simple really, or so it should be. The problem I'm having is the foreach will crash the script, this doesn't happen if I put an exit after the closing foreach, of course because of this the rest of my script doesn't execute. The problem also completely subsides if I remove the foreach, I've tested it and it's not the contents of the foreach, but the loop itself. Error reporting is turned on but I don't get any, I also tried messing with the memory_limit, with no luck. Anyone know why this foreach is killing my script? Thanks! function smarty_function_flickr ($params, &$smarty) { require_once('system/library/SimplePie/simplepie.inc'); require_once('system/library/SimplePie/idn/idna_convert.class.php'); $flickr=new flickr(); /** * Set up SimplePie with all default values using shorthand syntax. */ $feed = new SimplePie($params['feed'], 'system/library/SimplePie/cache', '600'); $feed->handle_content_type(); /** * What sizes should we use? * Choices: square, thumb, small, medium, large. */ $thumb = 'square'; $full = 'medium'; $output = array(); $counter=0; // If I comment this foreach out the problem subsides, I know it is not the code within the foreach foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item) { $url = $flickr->image_from_description($item->get_description()); $output[$counter]['title'] = $item->get_title(); $output[$counter]['image'] = $flickr->select_image($url, $full); $output[$counter]['thumb'] = $flickr->select_image($url, $thumb); $counter++; } // Set template variables and template $smarty->assign('flickr',$output); $smarty->display('forms/'.$params['template'].'.tpl'); }

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• I'm trying to run some PHP scripts as CLI instead of over HTTP. How do I make them play nice?

  - by gnfti

  Hi everyone. I'm using some PHP scripts from FeedForAll to join together RSS feeds (RSSmesh) and display them as HTML (RSS2HTML). Because I intend to run these scripts fairly intensively and don't want the resulting HTTP requests and bandwidth to count towards my hosting quota, I am in the process of moving to running them on the web host's server in an umbrella PHP "batch" script, and call this script via cron (this is a Linux server, by the way). Here's a (working) sample request over HTTP: http://www.mydomain.com/a/rss2htmlcore/rss2html2.php?XMLFILE=http://www.mydomain.com/a/myapp/xmlcache/feed.xml&TEMPLATE=template.html This will produce the desired HTML output. An example of how I want this to work on the command line: /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/rss2htmlcore/rss2html2-cli.php /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/myapp/xmlcache/feed.xml /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/template.html This is with the correct shebang line added to "rss2html2-cli.php". I could just as well specify the executable ("/usr/local/bin/php") in the request, I doubt it makes a difference because I am able to run another script (that I wrote myself) either way without problems. Now, RSS2HTML and RSSmesh are different in that, for starters, they include secondary files -- for example, both include an XML parser script -- and I suspect that this is where I am getting a bit in over my head. Right now I'm calling exec() from the "umbrella" batch script, like so: exec("/srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/rss2htmlcore/rss2html2-cli.php /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/myapp/xmlcache/feed.xml /srv/customers/mycustomer#/mydomain.com/www/a/template.html", $output) But no output is being produced. What's the best way to go about this and what "gotchas" should I keep in mind? Is exec() the right way to approach this? It works fine for the other (simple) script but that writes its own output. For this I want to get the output and write it to a file from within the umbrella script if possible. I've also tried output buffering but to no avail. Do I need to pay attention to anything specific with regard to the includes? Right now they're specified in the scripts as include_once("FeedForAll_XMLParser.inc.php"); and the specified files are indeed in the same folder. Further info: -This is a Linux server. -I have no direct access to the shell, so I can't test things directly on a command line, everything is via crontab. -I will admit that support for the FeedForAll scripts leaves a lot to be desired, but I'd like to keep using their scripts if at all possible, if only because I know them and have been using them for a while. I have looked into Simplepie, but the FFA scripts do some things that I've seen no obvious solutions for with Simplepie, like limiting the number of items per individual feed (RSSmesh) or limiting the description length (RSS2HTML). -Yahoo! Pipes is out, they cache their data for too long for my application. Should you want to take a look at the code, here are the scripts as txt files. RSS2HTML2 and RSSmesh are the FeedForAll scripts, FeedForAll_XMLParser... is the included parser. Note that I have not yet amended these to handle $argv etc. I have however in "scraper-universal-rss-cli", which works fine with CLI. If anyone has any thoughts to share on this it would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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• HTML5, CSS3 columns

  - by DrGizmondo

  Hay all im building a news aggregator with SimplePie, the SP elements are working fine but I would like to have the feeds that it pulls in displayed in columns across the page using HTML5 and CSS3. I have managed to implement it so that the columns are formed and display the feeds, but at the moment the stories are being ordered one on to of the other from left to right with the newest being displayed top left, the second newest bellow the first in column one and so on. What I would like is for the stories to be displayed from left to right across the column so that the newest is at the top of the first column, the second newest at the top of the second column, the third newest in the third column and so on. The code that Im using at the moment is as follows: <div id="page-wrap"> <?php if ($feed->error): ?> <p><?php echo $feed->error; ?></p> <?php endif; ?> <?php foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item): ?> <div class="chunk"> <h4 style="background:url(<?php $feed = $item->get_feed(); echo $feed->get_favicon(); ?>) no-repeat; text-indent: 25px; margin: 0 0 10px;"><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h4> <p class="footnote">Source: <a href="<?php $feed = $item->get_feed(); echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php $feed = $item->get_feed(); echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a> | <?php echo $item->get_date('j M Y | g:i a T'); ?></p> </div> <?php endforeach; ?> And this CSS: #page-wrap { width: 100%; margin: 25px auto; height:400px; text-align: justify; -moz-column-count: 3; -moz-column-gap: 1.5em; -moz-column-rule: 1px solid #c4c8cc; -webkit-column-count: 3; -webkit-column-gap: 1.5em; -webkit-column-rule: 1px solid #c4c8cc; } If anyone could help me out with this that would be great.

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• Unable to install Wordpress on Amazon's EC2 instance due to missing php-mbstring

  - by alexus

  I've created a new instance on Amazon's EC2 and I'm trying in wordpress and it's failing due to php-mbstring: # yum install wordpress Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package wordpress.noarch 0:3.9.1-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-simplepie >= 1.3.1 for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-gd for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-enchant for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-PHPMailer for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-PHPMailer.noarch 0:5.2.6-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.1.0 for package: php-PHPMailer-5.2.6-1.el7.noarch ---> Package php-gd.x86_64 0:5.4.16-21.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libpng15.so.15(PNG15_0)(64bit) for package: php-gd-5.4.16-21.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libt1.so.5()(64bit) for package: php-gd-5.4.16-21.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libpng15.so.15()(64bit) for package: php-gd-5.4.16-21.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libXpm.so.4()(64bit) for package: php-gd-5.4.16-21.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libX11.so.6()(64bit) for package: php-gd-5.4.16-21.el7.x86_64 ---> Package php-simplepie.noarch 0:1.3.1-4.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-simplepie-1.3.1-4.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-IDNA_Convert for package: php-simplepie-1.3.1-4.el7.noarch ---> Package wordpress.noarch 0:3.9.1-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-enchant for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package libX11.x86_64 0:1.6.0-2.1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libX11-common = 1.6.0-2.1.el7 for package: libX11-1.6.0-2.1.el7.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libxcb.so.1()(64bit) for package: libX11-1.6.0-2.1.el7.x86_64 ---> Package libXpm.x86_64 0:3.5.10-5.1.el7 will be installed ---> Package libpng.x86_64 2:1.5.13-5.el7 will be installed ---> Package php-IDNA_Convert.noarch 0:0.8.0-2.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-IDNA_Convert-0.8.0-2.el7.noarch ---> Package php-PHPMailer.noarch 0:5.2.6-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.1.0 for package: php-PHPMailer-5.2.6-1.el7.noarch ---> Package php-simplepie.noarch 0:1.3.1-4.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-simplepie-1.3.1-4.el7.noarch ---> Package t1lib.x86_64 0:5.1.2-14.el7 will be installed ---> Package wordpress.noarch 0:3.9.1-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-enchant for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package libX11-common.noarch 0:1.6.0-2.1.el7 will be installed ---> Package libxcb.x86_64 0:1.9-5.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libXau.so.6()(64bit) for package: libxcb-1.9-5.el7.x86_64 ---> Package php-IDNA_Convert.noarch 0:0.8.0-2.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-IDNA_Convert-0.8.0-2.el7.noarch ---> Package php-PHPMailer.noarch 0:5.2.6-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.1.0 for package: php-PHPMailer-5.2.6-1.el7.noarch ---> Package php-simplepie.noarch 0:1.3.1-4.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-simplepie-1.3.1-4.el7.noarch ---> Package wordpress.noarch 0:3.9.1-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-enchant for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package libXau.x86_64 0:1.0.8-2.1.el7 will be installed ---> Package php-IDNA_Convert.noarch 0:0.8.0-2.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-IDNA_Convert-0.8.0-2.el7.noarch ---> Package php-PHPMailer.noarch 0:5.2.6-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.1.0 for package: php-PHPMailer-5.2.6-1.el7.noarch ---> Package php-simplepie.noarch 0:1.3.1-4.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-simplepie-1.3.1-4.el7.noarch ---> Package wordpress.noarch 0:3.9.1-1.el7 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-enchant for package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: php-PHPMailer-5.2.6-1.el7.noarch (epel) Requires: php-mbstring >= 5.1.0 Error: Package: php-IDNA_Convert-0.8.0-2.el7.noarch (epel) Requires: php-mbstring Error: Package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch (epel) Requires: php-mbstring Error: Package: php-simplepie-1.3.1-4.el7.noarch (epel) Requires: php-mbstring Error: Package: wordpress-3.9.1-1.el7.noarch (epel) Requires: php-enchant You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest # I'm using RHEL7: # cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo) # yum repolist Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb repo id repo name status epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64 4,325 rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64 Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7 1 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs) 4,447 repolist: 8,773 # a while back and another environment I had to run following command first in order to get access to php-mbstring: rhn-channel --add --channel=rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 How do you do that in Amazon EC2?:

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• jFeed not parsing images inside RSS feed

  - by Judson Collier

  Suggestions on how to fix this? It's imperative that I use javascript, sadly, or I would have been using SimplePie eons ago.

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• Help with an RSS Feed

  - by Pete Herbert Penito

  Hi Everyone! I've spent ages on this, all I'm trying to do is extract the "title" contents from an rss feed, everything else can be ignored. I've looked into simplepie, magpie and all that stuff, but I feel its kind of overkill for what I need to do. I realise there are google gadgets that are made that can do this, but I didn't want all the google logo stuff, and I wanted to personally make this. theres a whole bunch of unneeded tags thats coming in from the rss feed all I need is the title tag, it looks like this <title> My Title 3.0 </title> My server has PHP 5+ so I know I can use some of these simple xml functions which look promising. so far I've got <?php $blogfeed = file_get_contents("http://myblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss"); echo $blogfeed; ?> And it gives me all the data, I was thinking of running through it with strpos and searching for <title> but is there any easier way to do this?? Thanks alot!

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• What would I use to remove escaped html from large sets of data.

  - by Elizabeth Buckwalter

  Our database is filled with articles retrieved from RSS feeds. I was unsure of what data I would be getting, and how much filtering was already setup (WP-O-Matic Wordpress plugin using the SimplePie library). This plugin does some basic encoding before insertion using Wordpress's built in post insert function which also does some filtering. I've figured out most of the filters before insertion, but now I have whacko data that I need to remove. This is an example of whacko data that I have data in one field which the content I want in the front, but this part removed which is at the end: <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SoundOnTheSound?i=xFxEpT2Add0:xFbIkwGc-fk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SoundOnTheSound?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img> &lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SoundOnTheSound?i=xFxEpT2Add0:xFbIkwGc-fk:D7DqB2pKExk&quot; Notice how some of the images are escape and some aren't. I believe this has to do with the last part being cut off so as to be unrecognizable as an html tag, which then caused it to be html endcoded. Another field has only this which is now filtered before insertion, but I have to get rid of the others: &lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2183/2289902369_1d95bcdb85.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;post_img&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; (all examples are on one line, but broken up for readability) Question: What is the best way to work with the above escaped html (or portion of an html tag)? I can do it in Perl, PHP, SQL, Ruby, and even Python. I believe Perl to be the best at text parsing, so that's why I used the Perl tag. And PHP times out on large database operations, so that's pretty much out unless I wanted to do batch processing and what not. PS One of the nice things about using Wordpress's insert post function, is that if you use php's strip_tags function to strip out all html, insert post function will insert <p> at the paragraph points. Let me know if there's anything more that I can answer. Some article that didn't quite answer my questions. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016751/remove-text-from-within-a-database-text-field) (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/462831/regular-expression-to-escape-html-ampersands-while-respecting-cdata)

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• What regular expression(s) would I use to remove escaped html from large sets of data.

  - by Elizabeth Buckwalter

  Our database is filled with articles retrieved from RSS feeds. I was unsure of what data I would be getting, and how much filtering was already setup (WP-O-Matic Wordpress plugin using the SimplePie library). This plugin does some basic encoding before insertion using Wordpress's built in post insert function which also does some filtering. I've figured out most of the filters before insertion, but now I have whacko data that I need to remove. This is an example of whacko data that I have data in one field which the content I want in the front, but this part removed which is at the end: <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SoundOnTheSound?i=xFxEpT2Add0:xFbIkwGc-fk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SoundOnTheSound?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img> &lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SoundOnTheSound?i=xFxEpT2Add0:xFbIkwGc-fk:D7DqB2pKExk&quot; Notice how some of the images are escape and some aren't. I believe this has to do with the last part being cut off so as to be unrecognizable as an html tag, which then caused it to be html endcoded. Another field has only this which is now filtered before insertion, but I have to get rid of the others: &lt;img src=&quot;http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2183/2289902369_1d95bcdb85.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;post_img&quot; width=&quot;80&quot; (all examples are on one line, but broken up for readability) Question: What is the best way to work with the above escaped html (or portion of an html tag)? I can do it in Perl, PHP, SQL, Ruby, and even Python. I believe Perl to be the best at text parsing, so that's why I used the Perl tag. And PHP times out on large database operations, so that's pretty much out unless I wanted to do batch processing and what not. PS One of the nice things about using Wordpress's insert post function, is that if you use php's strip_tags function to strip out all html, insert post function will insert <p> at the paragraph points. Let me know if there's anything more that I can answer. Some article that didn't quite answer my questions. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016751/remove-text-from-within-a-database-text-field) (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/462831/regular-expression-to-escape-html-ampersands-while-respecting-cdata)

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• fetching rss feed, mktime problem (wordpress plugin)

  - by krike

  sorry for the weird question but actually I'm not sure how to ask this. the code works fine but the problem is the following. I fetch items from feeds and compare them to a specific date which is stored into the database as an option. I see if the fetched item is more recent or not and if it is I create a new pending post. however there is one item that just keeps being added because there is something wrong with the date and I don't understand what is wrong because all other items (before and after) are blocked once they are being added as post (so when they are not recent anymore compared with the date I store as an option) I then echo'ed that line and this is the result: yes it exist! 27-03-2010-04-03 Free Exclusive Vector Icon Pack: Web User Interface 29-01-2010-03-01 if(1330732800 < 1335830400) 01 05 2012 the first line is to see if the option still exist and what data was stored in it the second is the actual items that's causing all the problem, it's initial date is less recent then the date but still passes as more recent.... this is the code I use, any help would be great: if(!get_option('feed_last_date')): echo "nope doesn't exist, but were creating one"; $time = time()-60*60*24*30*3; add_option("feed_last_date", date('d-m-Y-h-m', $time)); else: echo "yes it exist! ".get_option('feed_last_date'); endif; //Create new instance of simple pie and pass in feed link $feed = new SimplePie($feeds); //Call function handle_content_type() $feed->handle_content_type(); $last_date = explode("-", get_option('feed_last_date')); $day = $last_date[0]; $month = $last_date[1]; $year = $last_date[2]; $hour = $last_date[3]; $minute = $last_date[4]; $last_date = mktime(0,0,0, $day, $month, $year); //4 - Loop through received items foreach($feed->get_items(0, 500) as $item) : $feed_date = explode("-", $item->get_date('d-m-Y-h-m')); $day = $feed_date[0]; $month = $feed_date[1]; $year = $feed_date[2]; $hour = $feed_date[3]; $minute = $feed_date[4]; $feed_date = mktime(0,0,0,$day, $month, $year); if($last_date < $feed_date): echo $item->get_title()." ". $item->get_date('d-m-Y-h-m') ." if(".$last_date." < ".$feed_date.") <b>".date("d m Y", $feed_date)."</b><br />"; //if datum is newer then stored in database, then create new post $description = "<h3>download the resource</h3><p><a href='".$item->get_permalink()."' target='_blank'>".$item->get_permalink()."</a></p><h3>Resource description</h3><p>".$item->get_description()."</p>"; $new_post = array( 'post_title' => $item->get_title(), 'post_content' => $description, 'post_status' => 'pending', 'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'post_author' => $user_ID, 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_category' => array(0) ); $post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post); endif; endforeach; update_option("feed_last_date", date('d-m-Y-h-m', time()));

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