In the end, fields don't get mapped...

Just wanted to add, I am hoping to pull across the thumbnails and play links and such from Blip.

Host crashed, I'll post some proper details later when e get this back up.

Here is the best I can do for you without handing over admin access, though I am happy to do this if it would help solve the problem.

This is the feed item example from Blip.tv for one of the items in the feed.

Array
(
    [title] => Audacity Tutorial: Part I
    [description] => 
    [options] => Array
        (
            [teaser] => 
            [original_url] => http://blip.tv/file/487611
            [timestamp] => 1195234492
            [guid] => http://blip.tv/file/487611
            [original_author] => 
            [tags] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Technology
                    [1] => audacity
                    [2] => audio
                    [3] => cctv cambridge
                    [4] => cctv
                    [5] => cctv
                    [6] => goverment
                    [7] => cancer
                )

            [raw] => Array
                (
                    [link] => http://blip.tv/file/607767
                    [title] => Audacity Tutorial: Part I
                    [comments] => http://blip.tv/file/607767
                    [category] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => Technology
                            [1] => audacity
                            [2] => audio
                            [3] => cctv cambridge
                            [4] => cctv
                            [5] => cctv
                            [6] => goverment
                            [7] => cancer
                        )

                    [pubDate] => Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:34:25 +0000
                    [enclosure] => 
                )

        )

)

I've tried to create matching field with CCK, and then pointing the feed items into the CCK fields turns up no results. I am left only with the title and node creation date.

See the attached screenshot.

The result was this: http://cell.cctvcambridge.org/node/117

I already had the embedded media field installed, I installed your Blip mapper, and patched feedapi (actually the simplepie_parser.module file according to the patch file). But still nothing maps, and I have an error that suggests something should be happening but is not. See the screenshot...

If you want to see this problem then I'm about to email you with an admin access account through your contact form - if you have the time and generosity to look closer at this problem then maybe I can take it away after that and flush out the mapping of the "other" fields on my own.

I just need one good working example and I can emulate it.

This is a big bummer, mostly because I don't have the skill to write out a solution on my own. You said in an email to me that you may move forward on your own Blip.tv mapper, I would be interested in helping you with that in any way that I can. Let me know what I can do.

On other fronts, are our goals of aggregating video submissions via some third party video hosting site impossible within Drupal? In a lot of ways our goal was built on how well the core Aggregator module performed on our main website, maybe it was pure chance that it looked so good. Aggregator pulls across the thumbnail, description and playlink, we figured it was an easy step already. See what it looks like:

http://www.cctvcambridge.org/aggregator/sources/34

I didn't think it would be so difficult for Feed API to grab the same elements.

Thanks for the help so far, let me know how we can contribute.

Actually, Blip gives you a handy copy/paste code option for embedding your new Blip video onto your own site. If that code could be found in their feed, then we could pull it into an Embedded Media Field and call it done.

And if it were not available directly in the feed, could the embed code be manufactured by a module given the data that does exist from the Blip feed? This is what a typical Blip embed code looks like, and the only custom portion is the video file (ignore the guys, they're local personalities):

<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AZ2hfQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="234" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" />

Then the only thing that our specific application would need is the author and description.

I tried out SimpleFeed just now and it has the same problem, does not find the feed elements apart from the Blip feed item title, and I actually have the video file address pointing into the video_cck field. See the screenie attached.

I haven't tried parser_common_syndication, I don't (yet) have a PHP5 environment to work with.

Sean

Ekes, yes both aggregator and feedapi are using the same feed link from Blip.tv, as well as the feed I posted on another site: http://www.cctvcambridge.org/aggregator/sources/34

Workin on some stuff here, will have more soon.

PS, someone else had trouble making the Blip.tv embed field work, and found a solution. Maybe its the same problem we have:

http://drupal.org/node/227461

You are right, the only thing that needs to be inserted into the Embedded Media Field is the original Blip link. It works fine when I enter a URL manually, pulls in the media file just fine, and the rest I suppose would be themeing to make it look OK. See screens attached.

However the mapper doesn't insert the URL automatically. I had it map some of the fields once, a few hours ago, so I am going to try to sort that out now.

Some Blip fields will get mapped and some won't. I am able to map the file URLs (.flv and .mp4) into the embedded media field, I am not able to map the Blip original URL into the embedded fields. I can, however, manually edit the embedded field with a Blip original URL and it displays fine.

I've got a couple of errors that come up when I am attempting to refresh the feed with the mapper pointing the original URL into the embedded field. Maybe its helpful to see it with the admin account I gave you, if not then here are the errors:

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cctvcamb/public_html/cell/sites/all/modules/feedapi/feedapi_mapper/mappers/feedapi_mapper_video_cck.inc on line 31.

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cctvcamb/public_html/cell/sites/all/modules/emfield/emfield.module on line 123.

warning: array_pop() [function.array-pop]: The argument should be an array in /home/cctvcamb/public_html/cell/sites/all/modules/emfield/contrib/emthumb/emthumb.module on line 111.

warning: array_push() [function.array-push]: First argument should be an array in /home/cctvcamb/public_html/cell/sites/all/modules/emfield/contrib/emthumb/emthumb.module on line 113.

Seems like this set of errors repeats once for each feed item pulled in, in my case 12 sets of errors for 12 feed items.

What we figured out at a table at Drupalcon is that the Feed Element Mapper is not correctly inserting the value of the Blip.tv URL. It seems the field wants an array value when instead the Blip url is a regular string. The module should be smart enough to determine the difference between an array and string and accept both as a value.

I can back this up with the earlier posts, the mapping produces tons of errors when mapping the URL into the emfield but works just fine when mapping other elements (such as the flv URL).

Thanks to aaron and Alex of zivtech for looking at this with me.