Comments on: Simple Activity Streaming with SimplePie

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:24:17 +0000

To do anything useful with $f you'll probably want to use print_r() or var_dump() rather than echo (since it's an object).

Your $text value won't be set correctly unless you get a match based on the switch statement ( switch ($f->get_link()) )

Try outputting the value of $f->get_link() and see what you're getting, then you should be able to work backwards from there to come up with the "case"s you're working with.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:03:23 +0000

Hi man! Great tutorial you got here!! I, however do not seem to get the $text variable working with the different cases.

It seems that my simplepie links don’t match with the links I need the code to check. In addition, when I echo the value of the variable $f I only get weird strings of text and numbers.

I’m a newby at programming PHP so maybe it’s just basics that I’m missing but I hope you can help me out!

Thanks in advance!

Jeroen

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By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:58:08 +0000

I've been meaning to play around with that plugin to see what it's capable of. I literally have an unzipped copy of it sitting on my desktop waiting for me to tinker with it Thanks for the reminder!

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:57:21 +0000

@ConradH, you could just set up a few different copies of the script, configuring each one to pull from a different Twitter account. It shouldn't be *too* hard to change it so that it supports an array of account details rather than a single constant, but the quick solution would be to just duplicate the script and change the settings at the top for each account.

By: Jon Pennington

Jon Pennington — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:38:10 +0000

Use the Lifestream widget. In wordpress Plugins just search Lifestream. It is awesome. You can mix any RSS feeds you want into one, and put it in your sidebar. Beau, I wish you would have told me this!!! I figured it out on my own.

By: ConradH

ConradH — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:04:19 +0000

Thanks for this… good info.

I'd like to be able to display a handful of Twitter feeds from different users and was hoping to use your TwitterProxy code with SimplePie to parse the links, usernames, hashtags, etc. but then realized it's written for just one pre-defined user. Is there a straightforward way to convert your code to use a variable for the twitter username, or do you know of another way to parse URLS and such in twitter statuses pulled by SimplePie for WP? I'm surprised there isn't a SimplePie add-on or something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:31:23 +0000

I'd like to build something that imported all these into wp_comments using different post_type values, then I could query them out and harness the power of WP… but that'd be a lot more work

By: Professor Pennington

Professor Pennington — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:06:13 +0000

Hey man. This is awesome! This is what we talked about.. Using this method I can combine the comment feeds from various blogs that use Intense Debate to produce a single feed on the main page of my social network! Beau, how can I find out the url for an Intense Debate comments feed of a blog that isn't my blog and I don't know the owner? This is very important for my implementation of Buddypress with ID next year. I teach Spanish and working very hard on http://www.languageconnects.us so that it will be ready for masses of students in the fall.

Also… I have to say that my Php experience is limited. I have manipulated a lot of code over the years but always based on models and trial and error. A widget would be awesome!

I have also been looking at other solutions to combine custom RSS feeds. The only solution I have found so far aside from yours is Yahoo pipes. I would love to do what you did. Am going to try to make a feed like yours with my own info… Will try do my best to build my own off of your model. Thank you so much for the walk through and model!!!

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:55:06 +0000

Yup, one day

I've been trying to figure out a decent way to widgetize it without
losing the custom functionality as well (custom strings, URL-specific
classes etc). Don't have a definite answer just yet, but got a few
options. That'd make it much more accessible to other folks.

By: Donncha

Donncha — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:31:24 +0000

Next step would be a wp-cron job that updates the feeds in the background every hour and then updates the html making up your sidebar