fetch_rss times out too quickly

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.

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?

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

otto, thank you so much!

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 https://daviding.com/blog , `<h2>Recently on coevolving.com</h2>

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

<?php $rss = fetch_rss(‘https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/feed/&#8217;); ?>

<?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.

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.

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.