Please help, it has been days and I get figure this thing out.

neobodhi - February 12, 2008 - 13:36

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!

Do you have the poormanscron

bwv - February 12, 2008 - 13:53

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

neobodhi - February 12, 2008 - 14:36

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

bwv - February 12, 2008 - 14:47

Definitely try it, it might work. If not you've lost nothing (no pun intended).
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No reeason to use poormanscron if you have cron

nevets - February 12, 2008 - 16:14

No reeason to use poormanscron if you have cron

Aggregator?

Ron Williams - February 12, 2008 - 14:25

Why can't you use aggregator and cron?

I tried aggregator but for a

neobodhi - February 12, 2008 - 15:18

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?

Summit - February 12, 2008 - 15:34

Why don't you use feedapi? www.drupal.org/project/feedapi
Greetings,
Martijn

I tried that as well and

neobodhi - February 12, 2008 - 16:22

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.

 
 

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