Many thanks for the rss update.

we have a problem though...

For now the rss feed is only visible for logged in members of the site.
This way the feed has little or no use for anybody it can't be imported into rss readers

Seems to be that when a user wants to see the feedlist the component checks if a user is logged in or not. Why does this happen ??

We have a working commercial site with reverse auction and several other components and everthing works very well accept the following..

The main component link (index.php?option=com_rbids) does not allow public acces... We found a work around on this forum for that problem.

We think this problem  with the rss link is the same kind of problem. 
I do not understand why this is. We have no other acces issues with Reverse auction or with other 3rd parties components everthing works fine.
For example the task listauctions and the task viewbid works and the workflow in general works just fine.

Again thanks for the development of the rss function but in our case we cannot use it. Hope you will look into this.

best regards
David

Yes, great that works

Many thanks

 

nobody else had this??

I've searched on the error, it says I should chmod the cache directory, however I've done that, it does not help!

thank you,
Rene

Hi Sorin,
i'm getting it here:
http://www.eventspotter.nl/index.php/component/rbids/listauctions

when you press the rss icon on the page you see the error.

the rss should not be empty as there are bids active...


I have joomla 1.5.15 installed

I see the issue still stands.
Evidently there are some writting permissions restrictions.
Try to make manually a rbids.xml file with 755 in the root directory of your site (the same level as administrator/, components/ , etc)

Sorin

PLEASE check properly the file rights!
The warning indicates clearly that there is a permission issue:

Warning: fopen(rbid.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

The file is not index.xml because SEF is enabled, and according to this, the feedgenerator creates the filename for the RSS using the url:
* Generate a filename for the feed cache file. The result will be $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] with the extension changed to .xml.
   
But as someone noticed  - there is some strange way the apache version changes the way this variable works:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#81216

As a solution for your problem i suggest you edit rbids.php around line 2375 and replace the line:

with this :