Nukefeed questions

registered · Regular Joined: Nov 05, 2006 Posts: 96

first problem is that feeds are coming from 'no_email@example.com" which i'm gathering is from my account not having a fake email set? before nukefeeds, it would just be from 'Posted by sixf00t4'

The other thing is that I had edited the old backend.php to include geotags, so that my posts would be scanned by sites like outside.in and pick up when I reference particular locations or google maps locations. Do we have any way to bring in more data in the feeds? I'm not seeing any nukefeeds documentation.

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:28 pm

so the pubdate was coming up blank for some reason. That was causing my posts to be skipped by some readers.

around line 1005:

Code:




         if ($this->items[$i]->date!="") {


         $itemDate = new FeedDate($this->items[$i]->date);


            $feed.= "            <pubDate>".htmlspecialchars($itemDate->rfc822())."</pubDate>\n";


         }

EDIT: it is infact blank. What would cause this?

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:03 pm

Are you talking about news feeds or what? I do not see any blank dates and I am not sure exactly what you are talking about.

On another note how did you add the geotags before? Meaning what exactly did you add to your post?

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:40 pm

yes, RSS feeds. here is a direct link to the xml produced through nuke feeds.

http://www.joshuadhall.com/feeds-5-rss20.xml

you can see there is no dc:date or pubdate.

for geotags, here's some good info- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoRSS
all I did for nukefeeds to bring the functionality back was adding to includes/feedcreator/feedcreator.class.php:

line 828:

Code:

      $feed.= "    xmlns:georss=\"http://www.georss.org/georss/\">\n";

and 987:

Code:

         $feed.= "           <georss:point>40.445281 -79.979353</georss:point>\n";

but plug in your own lat and long for the point.

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:08 pm

I have the same issue with the email. I will look into it and a few other things I don't understand. But there are a lot of files that I need to look at, that are included all over the place. Maybe somebody with more knowledge of this than me can respond.

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:56 am

no_email@example.com is to protect you against spam.
If you use feedburner there are a lot of features you can add to your feeds and its free.

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:12 am

Susann wrote:

no_email@example.com is to protect you against spam.
If you use feedburner there are a lot of features you can add to your feeds and its free.

right, but it looks cheap and unprofessional when used.

I do use feedburner, but you can't add georss functionality with feedburner, if that is what you were suggesting.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

It looks cheap and unprofessional to be compliant without getting spammed? Where does one "look" to see that?

As for the time, I agree that it needs to be changed. It should either use the actual time (if available) or nothing. Currently, if no time is available, it uses the current time, which is misleading (and raises questions).

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:27 pm

kguske wrote:

It looks cheap and unprofessional to be compliant without getting spammed? Where does one "look" to see that?

I don't see the need for it to be an email address at all, especially since it's fake anyway. Like I said, it used to just be 'Posted by etc"

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:55 pm

Just to confirm, you're talking about the feed (XML) format?

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:22 pm

Just a question but which browser is everyone using. I think IE has the ability to display more information than FF at least before FF 3.0.

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:43 pm

kguske wrote:

Just to confirm, you're talking about the feed (XML) format?

sorry, with some readers, you get it like an email, so that's where it's being shown.

Quote:

Just a question but which browser is everyone using. I think IE has the ability to display more information than FF at least before FF 3.0.

I am not using any browser for feeds, and the biggest problem I have is http://outside.in skipping my posts because there is not a valid pubdate, so no browser involved there either.

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:42 pm

Would you prefer to use the Nuke admin email, or something else, e.g. noreply@mysite.com?

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:50 am

can't we have it configurable so that anyone can have whatever they want in there?

Personally, I like having it 'Posted by xxx" but if an email address in necessary, I
would think something like rss_feed@nukesite.com would be appropropriate, where nuke site is the actual site.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:46 pm

I like the idea of rss_feed@PlaceYourSiteHere.com.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:31 pm

For validation reasons an e-mail is required but noreply@mysite.com is not a good idea.I use it as a valid e-mail and can tell some interesting experience with this address. Because I don´t use the catch all mail feature to prevent spam I can use both rss_feed@PlaceYourSiteHere.com. or no_email@example.com.
I don´t care.

But I believe some guys will get a lot of spam with rss_feed@domain.com

So why not stick with no_email@example.com ?

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:55 pm

Susann wrote:

For validation reasons an e-mail is required but noreply@mysite.com is not a good idea.I use it as a valid e-mail and can tell some interesting experience with this address. Because I don´t use the catch all mail feature to prevent spam I can use both rss_feed@PlaceYourSiteHere.com. or no_email@example.com.
I don´t care.

But I believe some guys will get a lot of spam with rss_feed@domain.com

So why not stick with no_email@example.com ?

Because when it actually says "no_email@example.com", I am with sixf00t4 when he says that it looks unprofessional. I mean no_email@mysite.com would be fine with me. The actual email address doesn't matter to me its just the @example.com is no good in my opinion.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:10 pm

I understand your point very well. But Example.com tells the stupidest spammer in China that this is not a valid e-mail.
Now its the time to choose what we prefer.
@ Kguske what do you mean ?
I agree no_email@mysite.com looks more professional but be sure you can´t prevent all spam-e-mails with such an email address.

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:45 pm

the email is more of a cosmetic issue, the biggest problem is that feeds are not showing the date the items were published.
without the story ID being passed into the function that creates the feed, from feedcreator.class.php in includes/feedcreator (the only ones are $title, $description, and $link) there's no good way to find the date from the db, without some really terrible code...

New Member Joined: Aug 17, 2009 Posts: 1

Hey... im seeing this post is from the past year....

But im having the same issue... no_email@mysite.com and no date in feeds...

The date will show only when you suscribe to the feed....

Is there a way to solve this?

Ty... Smile

registered · Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:24 am

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