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1. fiddyp
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   i'm using fetch_rss() in one of my plugins and it works ok but not with feeds that take a little longer than normal to load.

   is there any way to increase the timeout figure from the 5 seconds currently used to 10 seconds without installing magpie?

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Actually, it's a 2 second timeout.

   Add this to your wp-config.php file:
   define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 2);

   Adjust the number as you see fit.

3. teamplaylotto
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   thanks Otto!
   that worked a treat, now how would I implement that in the plugin so that a user of the plugin wouldn't have to actually edit their own config file?

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Just put it in the plugin instead of wp-config.php. The plugins load before the rss functions do.

5. teamplaylotto
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   otto, thank you so much!

6. daviding
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I was having a problem with feeds from one blog not showing up on another block (which I diagnosed as a rss_fetch error), that remained a mystery.

   I've now upgraded WordPress from v2.2.1 to v2.3.2, and happened to find this thread. I suspect that my problem is a timeout error, and am experimenting. I've added define('MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT', 5); to wp-config.php .

   I had written a branch, i.e. on http://daviding.com/blog , `<h2>Recently on coevolving.com</h2>

   <?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php'); ?>

   <?php $rss = fetch_rss('http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/'); ?>

   <?php if (empty($rss->items)) echo "

   • Jump over to coevolving.com
   ";

   else

   foreach ( $rss->items as $item ) : ?>

   • '

     title='<?php echo $item['title']; ?>'>

     <?php echo $item['title']; ?>

   <?php endforeach; ?>

   `

   ... and now you can see the page load hang as it tries to access the other feed.

   It's still a mystery to me! I had thought that Magpie does some caching, so I'll leave this change in place for a little while, to see if it shakes itself out.

7. rajdash
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I tried the define code (and triple-checked syntax) and I get an error that wp-blog-header.php has undefined functions (directly below the line where it imports wp-config.php). No matter whether I copy and paste from here or manually type in the line of code, it simply won't work.

8. daviding
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Looking at the code again, I've noticed that ...

   <?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php'); ?>

   ... reads on the codex as ...
   

   <?php include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php'); ?>

   I'm not a real WordPress expert, so I'm not sure what the difference between the require_once and include_once is ... but it seems to have solved my problem -- at least in one direction of feeding the blog to the other.

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