I'm converting a site from Joomla to Drupal where I had a simpleXML script that showed data like lake level from another site. One of my big issues was caching or lack of. If the feed from the site went down the page lagged out trying to load the feed also when the feed went down.

I've been playing with yahoo pipes and this module. How does the caching work? What happens if the yahoo pipes feed has no data or is broken. Does it revert back to it's cache?

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satcom74’s picture

satcom74 commented

I think this module API is going to work great for my needs. I'm needing to display items from an XML (not RSS) feed. In the past, I've had issues with this XML provider's feed going down which caused issues with errors when using SimpleXML. Everytime I made a work around a minor feed change or the feed going down would cause our site to have problems. This solution seems to cache really well and was easy to integrate. I made a module that creates a block to display my content.

Today I attempted to break the feed in every imaginable kind of way. The cached feed displays until the cache is deleted and then the block doesn't display at all which is acceptable for my project.

I think I can safely take back my request. Thanks, for making a great module.

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robloach
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Status: Active » Fixed

Yay! :-)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.