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By neobodhi on
Hi,
I've asked for help in a couple threads but it has been days and I have not got any response yet and I'm starting to go crazy because I can't figure this out.
All I want to do is add a few feeds to a website where they refresh every hour or so and delete the old content. I tried using simplefeed and it refreshes but old items never expire even though I set them to expire after one hour. I tried using auto expire along with simplefeed, but that did not work either. I have unistalled, reinstalled, unistalled again, I have gone from php 4 to php 5 and it still does not work. I've used fantastico, I have installed drupal manually, I have sent an e-mail to hostgator to see if there was a problem with the database and still nothing. I have tried feedapi and feedparser, but still nothing expires.
I hope there is someone out there who can help, I have nothing left to try that I can think of!
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Do you have the poormanscron
Do you have the poormanscron module installed? I ask because it might be required for simplefeed to do its job.
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I don't ave poormanscron
I don't ave poormanscron module, but I do have cron set up through my cpanel. Do you think poormanscron might help? I'm really ready to try anything at this point!
Definitely try it, it might
Definitely try it, it might work. If not you've lost nothing (no pun intended).
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I am a writer and researcher. In my spare time I build websites with Drupal.
Je peux communiquer en français. / Я могу общаться на русском языке.
No reeason to use poormanscron if you have cron
No reeason to use poormanscron if you have cron
Aggregator?
Why can't you use aggregator and cron?
Ron Williams
http://ronwilliams.io/
I tried aggregator but for a
I tried aggregator but for a few of the feeds it does not pick up any items. It is strange, simplefeed picks them up but not the aggregator. I'm sure the urls are correct so I don't know what the problem is. I tell it to update the items, but it doesn't for some reason.
Why don't you use feedapi?
Why don't you use feedapi? www.drupal.org/project/feedapi
Greetings,
Martijn
I tried that as well and
I tried that as well and still the old items would not expire. I have unistalled and reinstalled drupal with just simplefeed and/or feedapi and still nothing expires.