Title: RssFetch trouble shoot
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# RssFetch trouble shoot

 *  [jubba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jubba/)
 * (@jubba)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rssfetch-trouble-shoot/)
 * Hi im trying to set up RssFetch but im slightly confused and when I enter things
   it always says “Initializing ticker…”
 * please help me to fill in.
 * This is the code:
 *     ```
       <?
       /*
        ======================================================================
        Get, cache, and output contents of a RSS XML file
        Author: George at JavaScriptKit.com/ DynamicDrive.com
        Created: Feb 5th, 2006. Updated: Feb 5th, 2006
        ======================================================================
       */
   
       header('Content-type: text/xml');
   
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
       // Enter list of possible RSS feeds to fetch inside array:
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
   
       $rsslist=array(
       "BBC" => "http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml"
       );
   
       $cachefolder="cache"; //path to cache directory. No trailing "/". Set permission to read/write!
   
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
       // Determine which RSS file to actually fetch
       // Based on the value of the "id" parameter of the URL string mapping to the RSS array's key
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
   
       $rssid=$_GET['id'];
       $rssurl=isset($rsslist[$rssid])? $rsslist[$rssid] : die("Error: Can't find requested RSS in list.");
       $localfile=$cachefolder. "/" . urlencode($rssurl); //Name cache file based on RSS URL
   
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
       // Get the minutes to cache the local RSS file based on "cachetime" parameter of URL string
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
   
       $cacheminutes=(int) $_GET["cachetime"]; //typecast "cachetime" parameter as integer (0 or greater)
   
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
       // fetchfeed() gets the contents of an external RSS feed,
       // and saves its contents to the "cached" file on the server
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
   
       function fetchfeed(){
          global $rssurl, $localfile;
          $contents=file_get_contents($rssurl); //fetch RSS feed
          $fp=fopen($localfile, "w");
          fwrite($fp, $contents); //write contents of feed to cache file
          fclose($fp);
       }
   
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
       // outputrsscontent() outputs the contents of a RSS feed using the cached local RSS file
       // It checks if a cached version of the RSS feed is available, and if not, creates one first.
       // -------------------------------------------------------------------
   
       function outputrsscontent(){
          global $rssurl, $localfile, $cacheminutes;
          if (!file_exists($localfile)){ //if cache file doesn't exist
             touch($localfile); //create it
             chmod($localfile, 0666);
             fetchfeed(); //then populate cache file with contents of RSS feed
          }
          else if (((time()-filemtime($localfile))/60)>$cacheminutes) //if age of cache file great than cache minutes setting
             fetchfeed();
          readfile($localfile); //return the contents of the cache file
       }
   
       outputrsscontent();
       ?>
       ```
   
 * ———
    what do i do in the section where it says $cachefolder=”cache”; //path to
   cache directory. No trailing “/”. Set permission to read/write!
 * I created a folder called “cachefolder” with permission 777, but i entered the
   URL for it as “/wp-content/cachefolder”
 * Looks simple but im lost.
 * Please help me.
 * Thanks

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