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Started 4 years ago by ryanschefke

Last reply by iccain

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ryanschefke

Hello,

I purchased your product and I am trying to get the RSS viewer to work. I was able to test the viewer by enabling the sample news.xml file to be read; however, I want to read from a yahoo rss url feed. I am trying to load the second URL (tennis RSS feed) and I am using top stories as you have to test. My site is www.ctltennis.com. Here is the code I have that is not working:

// RSS Feed url
var RSSUrl = "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories";
//var RSSUrl = "http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/rss.xml";
// get Domain
var urlStr:Array = this._url.split("/");
var domain:String = "";
for (var i = 0; i domain = urlStr[i] "/";
}
// load xml from another domain
//xml.load(domain "news.php?url=" RSSUrl); // load using php from another domain
xml.load(RSSUrl); // load from url
//xml.load("rssnews.xml"); // load local file
preloader.lbl_txt.autoSize = true;
preloader.lbl_txt.text = "Loading RSS Feed from " RSSUrl ".\\n Please wait...";
# / posted on Dec 28, 2007
ryanschefke

I believe I may have solved the problem. I am using the php file to reference an external link. I think that may be working if you recommend that. Can you tell me how I can shrink the height of the overall viewer, say, from 600 pixels down to 300 pixels? It is too tall now for the format of my current site.
# / posted on Dec 28, 2007
Older user

Hy ryanschefke,
Thank you for purchasing and in the future please use the private message to ask questions, don't post source code on the public forum. Yes, you should use the php file to retrieve news from a different domain. Now, feel free to resize the component from your Properties panel, set it any width an height and it will be autmaticaly scaled on runtime.
Regards,
Adrian
# / posted on Dec 28, 2007
ryanschefke

Thanks for the reply. Can you please be more specific on resizing the height? In Flash, I open the .fla file and I see size: 440 x 625 in the properties tab. This is what I have it set to now. This only resizes the back white border. When I publish the fla and create the swf then add it to my site it cuts off the black border and doesn't size accordingly. For example, see my site at http://www.ctltennis.com
# / posted on Dec 30, 2007
Older user

Hi,
The border is just for design purposes, it's not a part of the News Reader component. The actual component is on the layer named "List" and it has the "news_list" name on the properties panel. This you'll have to use/resize. If you want to use the border aswell, just go to the "border" layer and edit it to fit the new size of the news component. Couldn't be more clear than this . Hope it helps
Regards,
Adrian
# / posted on Dec 30, 2007
stanfordanesthe

I just bought this rss reader, but I can't get it to load external rss feeds. Please help. Can you please also tell me how to change the color to "greyscale", I don't like the blue/green color and prefer just grey. Thanks. Larry
# / posted on Feb 02, 2008
stanfordanesthe

Does anybody know where to find documentation on getting the external site rss feeds to work? I can get the xml file locally to work, but I can't figure out how to get external rss feeds to display. Any help is appreciated! I'm getting desparate for help! Thanks so much.
# / posted on Feb 04, 2008
miguex

Oh man, I can't get this thing to work, the file is giving me an error even when I upload the files exactly the way it came:
http://www.razorskate.com/2008_site/swf ... reader.php

Can anyone help me on this? I know nothing about code.
# / posted on Feb 13, 2008
miguex

Bump!
Please help!
Anyone knows how can I contact support for this?
# / posted on Feb 14, 2008
Older user

Hi Miguex,

You are refering to my RSS Reader, not Oxylus RSS Reader.

Next time please email me direct through the private message system, as I did not know you had left a message on the forum.

The error you are receiving: "Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_file() " is most likely because "simplexml_load_file" is a PHP 5 function, and possibly your web server is not using PHP 5. I have recently uploaded a PHP 4 file, you should be able to download it from the RSS reader downloads page. Try it and see how you go.

Kind Regards,
Nellie
# / posted on Feb 15, 2008
miguex

Thanks Nellie!
I got confused, my bad. Thanks for replying and for the update.
I will be trying that now and will let you know. Thanks!
# / posted on Feb 15, 2008
miguex

it works now!
thanks so much.
now I don't see a scroll bar on the swf, is this because of php5?
either way it works, thank you so much!
# / posted on Feb 15, 2008
miguex

Oh never mind, it works!
thanks
# / posted on Feb 15, 2008
MisterJacobs

Hi Nellie.

I tried to PM you to no avail. My problem is calling an external url from feedburner. This is all I'm trying to call.
I tried putting the url in the news.php and the var RSSUrl but nothing's working.
# / posted on Feb 18, 2008
Wyffels

Hi Oxylus,

I bought your component and have a question. I already emailed you but have not heard back yet. Can your viewer read or be modified to read server resized images in a RSS feed? Here is an example:
http://www.shopzilla.com/14G_-_feed_id--4/rss.xml

Thanks
# / posted on Mar 31, 2008
Older user

Have you tried loading that rss feed ? Tried that first and let me know if it's working.

Adrian
# / posted on Apr 18, 2008
Older user

Hi, The border is just for design purposes, it's not a part of the News Reader component. The actual component is on the layer named "List" and it has the "news_list" name on the properties panel. This you'll have to use/resize. If you want to use the border aswell, just go to the "border" layer and edit it to fit the new size of the news component. Couldn't be more clear than this :). Hope it helps Regards, Adrian
# / posted on Dec 30, 2007
ryanschefke

Hello, I purchased your product and I am trying to get the RSS viewer to work. I was able to test the viewer by enabling the sample news.xml file to be read; however, I want to read from a yahoo rss url feed. I am trying to load the second URL (tennis RSS feed) and I am using top stories as you have to test. My site is www.ctltennis.com. Here is the code I have that is not working: // RSS Feed url var RSSUrl = "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories"; //var RSSUrl = "http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/rss.xml"; // get Domain var urlStr:Array = this._url.split("/"); var domain:String = ""; for (var i = 0; i# / posted on Dec 28, 2007
miguex

Bump! Please help! Anyone knows how can I contact support for this?
# / posted on Feb 14, 2008
musttafa

I want change feed source when I click a button. I think first I must clear previous feed results then load new feeds. How can I do that.

Regards.

# / posted on Sep 03, 2008
petershilton

I want to get feeds from external sources with coldfusion rather than php (we don‘t have php on our server). Do you know of a way round this.
I‘ve previously used a CF proxy script that has always worked but it doesn‘t work with this.

<cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = “Yes”>

<!—- This specifies the URL that you want to retrieve data from —->>
<cfset dataURL=“http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml”/>

<cfhttp url=”#dataURL#” method=“get” redirect=“yes” timeout=“10”/>

<cfheader name = “Content-type” value = ”#cfhttp.mimeType#”>

<cfoutput> #cfhttp.fileContent#
</cfoutput>

</cfprocessingdirective>

A simple xml.load(“http://proxy.cfm”); doesn‘t work and i have tried numerous variations of code.

Can someone please help?

# / posted on Sep 05, 2008
Black202

DO NOT BUY THIS.

ITS NOT USER FRIENDLY AT ALL. NO DOCUMENTATION.

THIS SHIT IS WACK I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!

# / posted on Sep 27, 2008
Ashish

As Black has said there‘s no documentation for many scripts.

It‘s like Ali Baba the thieves just packed here in the den of sweeping out your money!

Shame that Flash Den allows this people, so-called Developers to sell their products without bothering to include a simple readme text.

I purchased a moment ago, the Nice Dynamic News Ticker and to my surprise, there‘s no installation o read me text. These people thought we are whiz kid like them. Better not be a whiz kid than be thieves kid like them! Shame

# / posted on Oct 15, 2008
Older user

Your comments are very rude, out of hundreds of customers on this file, unfortunately there are some that buy without thinking ahead if they have the skills to do what they set out to do. How can you have the audacity to call developers thieves when they work their butts off to make a file like this that would cost 7-900$ minimum at a decent coders rates and you buy it for $10 ? And also keep in mind authors only keep 25-50% of that. So for $2.5 would you like us to build your entire site as well ? Or maybe teach you how to use a computer ? It’s not customary for me to be harsh, but your comments deserve it. Here’s a tip that will save your money in the future. Smart buyers know what they’re capable of or what their team can do. So if they think a file is too complex for them to modify, they either buy it and leave it like it is OR they don’t buy it and go with something simpler. We, the coders, are not at fault for your lack of skills and bad judgement. This file HAS documentation that is enough to get you to set it up easily if you have basic skills and understanding of web design, file management and xml. Hire a professional next time you want to do something you’re not able to handle, we’re geting a bit sick of buyers that shout and give bad ratings at no fault to us. Your expectations are too high, try being more realistic.

I’d like to thank all the rest of our buyers that support us, there’s many people out there that apreciate the work we do and find these files useful.

Bottom line : please stop being spiteful, get realistic and asume responsability for your bad judgement and over-estimation of your skills.

# / posted on Jan 10, 2009
Older user

One more thing, FC doesn’t allow us to post links on our support forum where we do our best to help you guys out. We can’t possibly check all topics on almost 100 files on 7 sites we sell on and also PM and so on. If you’re really interested about getting support you can do a bit of research, a quick search on google would be enough !

# / posted on Jan 10, 2009
braggy

Hi Oxylus,

I’ve noticed that that Google is not indexing the feed provided, but it’s seeing the following text: “Tue, 13.05.2007 Lorem ipsum Content wil go here”

If you Google that exact term, it shows loads of people using this component!

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Braggy

# / posted on Oct 21, 2009
spyvspyaeon

Hi I’m with some problems, can’t remember how I did before. On my site http://2ndfantasy.org I have 1 working pointed to http://machinifeed.com

now I’m trying to use the rss flash to grab feed from a burner one http://feeds.feedburner.com/PookymediaFilms (burned from blogger)

edit the fla and placed xml.load(domain+“news.php?url=”+RSSUrl); to load on dif. domain.

var RSSUrl = “http://feeds.feedburner.com/PookymediaFilms”;

Can’t fix it and swf can’t read the feed, actually doesn’t prompt any error, any clue what is happening? please give me a TIP. thnks

# / posted on Jan 09, 2010
spyvspyaeon

Ok :D I got it :P feedburner doesn’t burn in RSS. 2.0 format by default to I enter on my feed and set to RSS. 2.0 and now working perfectly

http://www.2ndfantasy.org/pookymediarss/ini.html

Thnks and sorry, maybe this is helpful to others when burn on feedburner any feed

# / posted on Jan 10, 2010
iccain

Quick question for anybody…I have gotten other RSS readers to work that I have purchased from this site, so I know there is nothing wrong with the settings on my server. When I test the files as they come on my local php server, it reads the xml file as you would expect, but when I upload the files as they come to the server to test, it will not read the XML file. When I follow the included directions and enter the rss feed exactly as it is entered on the other flash rss reader I purchased from this site, it cannot read the feed.

The rss feed it: http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100

I entered the following, as explained in the directions:

var RSSUrl = “http://www.billboard.com/rss/charts/hot-100”;

xml.load(domain+“news.php?url=”+RSSUrl);

Do you have any suggestions on what I should check?

# / posted on Apr 07, 2010