When clicking on title of a feed node a blank screen is generated, not even site's title and sidebars present etc.

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OS: Redhat Linux Fedora 7
Site: Test.lace.me.uk
PHP: 5.2.2
Drupal: 5.1
Drupal path: \

CLIENT
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate
Browser: IE 7.0.6000.xxxx

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robsteranium commented

The aggregator item title links on the Sources page takes you to the storylink node. From there the title is no longer a link. You can click a 'full story' link to continue.

Does your linux box return anything to the browser?

John Bryan’s picture

John Bryan commented

Not sure we are quite talking about the same thing?

Clicking on the title of an individual news item node generates a blank page. The following html is returned to the browser:-

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

There is an edit option for news item nodes available via /administration/content management/content but whilst this does not blank the screen it gives an edit tab screen with no content or fields.

At no point do I see anything labeled "full story"

You say about Sources page? I do have a seperate issue, not mentioned in original post, with the "Sources" page aka menu - "News Sources" i.e. "/aggregator/sources". This take me to a list of sources but nothing is clickable with no way to reach even a list of nodes for a source from this screen. This is minor by comparison.

robsteranium’s picture

robsteranium commented

Does the link point to a node? Can you reach the node from a direct request or find it in content management?

It sounds like the links are working backwards between story link node <> sources.
e.g. From aggregator/sources click top news item's title which targets node/14. From the storylink node/14 there is a link to full story which targets the news item on the external website which syndicated the feed in the first place.

I'm not really sure what might cause this... sorry!

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John Bryan commented

From aggregator/sources

I get a list of news sources names, but they are not clickable and so can't lead to any actual news item nodes:-
http://test.lace.me.uk/aggregator/sources

From aggregator/sources/X

This displays details about the source including its URL but no list of news-item nodes. e.g.:-
http://test.lace.me.uk/aggregator/sources/1

From Content lists

Individual News-Item nodes appear in Content and taxonomy node lists etc with their normal news content with clickable title which leads to the full node node/X. But the full node does not display, although it does exist, it just generates a completely blank page as documents previously in this thread. e.g.
http://test.lace.me.uk/ {the bottom most items are feed-parser nodes (black text in a black border)}

Hopefully just seeing for your self will be more informative than my ramblings 8¬)

Possibly combination of 2 causes?

1: There seems to be no link or association between the news-sources (aggregator/sources/X) and the news items (node/X).
2: There may be broken html or PHP being generated by the full nodes (but not the teaser view). When I have seen blank screens like these before it is usually when there is a syntax error (such as an omitted ";") in my code (in this case there is none of my code involved).

robsteranium’s picture

robsteranium commented

Unfortunately I can't access your domain (http://test.lace.me.uk/) via browser or ping.

Please register at my test site to see what I've been getting...

http://ccgi.robsteranium.plus.com/susdev/?q=aggregator/sources/
... lists the latest 3 items with links to pages 2,3,4 etc.

aggregator/source/n provides info about the feed and summaries of the items that have been aggregated which themselves are stored in storylink nodes.
http://ccgi.robsteranium.plus.com/susdev/?q=aggregator/sources/18
http://ccgi.robsteranium.plus.com/susdev/?q=node/6

If you can't see any items then perhaps you haven't updated the nodes through the News Aggregator admin page. Are you sure the nodes listed in content/ taxonomy are relevant to FeedParsers (and not left over from experiments with the default RSS)? I've not been able to auto-tag items with feedparses so none of them show up in taxonomy. It's entirely possible that my site is showing nodes left over from experiments with the default RSS! The nodes do, however, look like storylinks when I click edit although I've not waded through the mysql tables to confirm this.

I would suggest the following:

  • try reinstalling feedparser/ it's dependents according to the install docs
  • try deleting and re-adding the rss feeds
  • update the feed from ?q=admin/content/aggregator/n

Let me know if you need permission changes to access the above links.

robsteranium’s picture

robsteranium commented

Sorry that last link should have read:
update the feed from ?q=admin/content/aggregator/update/n

John Bryan’s picture

John Bryan commented

Test.lace.me.uk seems to have dropped off the DNS map when I made it the current live site. See www.LACE.me.uk instead. (sorry bad timing)

- http://www.lace.me.uk/aggregator/sources
- http://www.lace.me.uk/aggregator/sources/1
- http://www.lace.me.uk/node/10632

I have created a logon on your test site but don't currently have permissions to aggregator/sources (Access Denied).

But from what I have seen your nodes are functional i.e. when you click on a teaser's title it takes you to an actual visual drupal node page and not just a blank HTML page.

Lace web
- Never used the original core Aggregator on this install.site
- Tagging of feed item nodes (and the fact they are nodes) is the main reason fof using feed parser, and that seems to work
- There seems to be no link between sources and created news items

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John Bryan commented

Thought I had the latest version but I just noticed that the current version came out just after my download.

Earliest chance I will update.

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John Bryan commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Have updated feed parser and many problems solved.

Cured:-
- "Title link leeds to blank page"
(i.e. node items are displaying in full page mode)
- Source views link to lists of node-items
- News item nodes can now be edited

Not cured:-
- News Items always promoted to 'front page', despite settings otherwise
- "Remove Items" in "content management/News Aggregator" does not work
(in previous version the code for this function was completely commented out)

Was & Still Working:-
- Taxonomy tagging by source

Uncertain:-
- 'Full Story'. Not seen this operating yet but may be my CSS etc.

Apologies for not realising I was a version out-of-date.

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robsteranium commented

Glad to see some of your problems are solved.

Where have you been setting the tags for news sources? Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place...

There's another issue being tracked about front page promotion. We just need to be able to edit the content type to fix this.

The absence of full story link is as intriguing as the appearance of feed body text. My feeds include the former but not the latter. Perhaps this is related to the type of syndication being provided by the sources (or indeed CSS)?

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John Bryan commented

In Categories I allocate the required taxonomy/category to content type "aggregator-item":-

Administer » Content management » Categories » "edit" <Taxonomy Name>

Then when I create or edit a "News Aggregator" source

Administer » Content management » News aggregator » "edit" <NewsFeed Name>

The category field selected above apears in the edit screen, just the same as for creating normal nodes, allowing me to specify what 'term' within <Taxonomy Name> the individual items for that NewsFeed get allocated to.

P.S. Would prefer it if the "News Sources" i.e. "/aggregator/sources" was a drill-down list so that users can see a actual list of sources rather than them being lost amongst all the news-items.

Presumably storing the actual newsfeed sources in a module-maintained "NewsSources" taxonomy (with a term per feed) has been considered? By making it a hierarchical taxonomy site adminstrator can edit it so that different types of news source can be grouped e.g.:-

NewsSources--News Gatherers--Medico.com
             |                Medinet.com
             |
           Research--------Cancer Research UK
             |
           Publications------New Scientist
             |               Nature
             |
           Hospitals--------East Midlands Cancer Unit
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robsteranium commented

I've tried this approach but still get the following warning/ error when editting sources:
You can automatically use tags defined in this feed to categories your nodes as they are created. To do this you need to create a vocabulary and assign it to the aggregator-item content-type.

I've already posted this bug elsewhere but the thread is still silent at the mo!

Have you tried using views or refine by taxonomy blocks to organise the lists as you want? I'm experimenting at the moment but will need to get the tagging right before I can demonstrate this.

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John Bryan commented

JUST NOTICED Previous info was not correct.

In Categories administration, allocate the required Taxonomy to "News Feed" (aggregator_item) not "aggregator item"(aggregator-item).

Somehow I must have managed not to follow the instructions correctly and accidentally stumble on the correct method 8¬)

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robsteranium commented

Still no luck.
I've tried simplefeed which tells me that categories must allow 'free tagging'. Even that is no help... :(

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robsteranium commented

All problems fixed in latest CVS!

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)