Blog on homepage…

On Apr 20, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Francis Swasey wrote:

I want to have my homepage (www.uvm.edu/~fcs) show the two most  recent posts to my blog…. Steve says I want you to figure out how to  make RSS work with the magicscript…. Steve says this is a good  project for you.

hmmm…interesting. If you were using wordpress, we wouldn’t need to worry about RSS http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/

I looked into it. Found Magpie (magpierss-0.71.1). Wrote simple script

<?

require_once('magpie/rss_fetch.inc');

#$url="http://fcs.blog.uvm.edu/index.rdf";

#$url="http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/wp-rss2.php";

$rss = fetch_rss($url);

echo "

Channel Title: " . $rss->channel['title'] . "

";

foreach ($rss->items as $item) {

$href = $item['link'];

$title = $item['title'];

$what = $item['description'];

$when = $item['date'];

print "

$title

";

print "
$when
n
$what
n";

}

exit;

?>

On Apr 20, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Francis Swasey wrote:

I went to your wordpress page and clicked on the RSS 2.0 link and  got the following:  XML Parsing Error: not well-formed > Location: http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/wp-rss2.php > Line Number 18, Column 64:
http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/?Page=./default.php&p=32 link What’s that all about?

Bad wordpress code and complicated magicscript URLs. Hacked and fixed. But that wasn’t what I was talking about — what I was talking about was the incorporation of wordpress into the template But what you and Steve are talking about is this http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/rss.php?url=http://fcs.blog.uvm.edu/index.rdf or this http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/rss.php?url=http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/wordpress/ wp-rss2.php

So, look at the code of http://www.uvm.edu/~waw/rss.php modify to suit insert in your default.php file

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Dspace 1.3 Alpha

Update was fairly simple, took me maybe 1.5 hours

Results were mixed: initial performance was terribly slow. Re-read update instructions, saw that I forgot to re-index. Halted Dspace, re-index, restarted Dspace, performance was better; however, some major errors with Search and Browse by Title/Author (browse by Date is OK) From dspace.log…

2005-04-12 16:21:37,786 INFO org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.SimpleSearchServlet @ anonymous:session_id=B62D3287FD213AAC4D158CD5C0D68D87:search: query="vermont",results=(1,3,6)
2005-04-12 16:22:01,905 WARN org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.InternalErrorServlet @ :session_id=B62D3287FD213AAC4D158CD5C0D68D87:internal_error:– URL Was: http://badger.uvm.edu/dspace/simple-search?query=vermont&submit=Go — Method: GET — Parameters were: — submit: "Go" — query: "vermont" Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details. at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:944) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:764) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:382) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:472) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:451) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:439)

Whoops. Tomcat out of memory. Fixed. Increased size of VM.

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