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Sep 12, 2002, 5:07 AM

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Ok, I know that the old XML search results feed is no longer working (company went under?), so I'm looking at alternatives. Would people like to see a plugin using SearchFeed.com as the company where the results are grabbed? It will be a free plugin, so I'm not guaranteeing when it will be complete, but I would imagine by monday the latest.

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Andy (mod)
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Sep 14, 2002, 5:35 AM

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Sep 14, 2002, 5:35 AM

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Anyone at all interested?

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Sep 14, 2002, 6:11 AM

Payooo

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Sep 14, 2002, 6:11 AM

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I am!

Sep 16, 2002, 3:54 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 3:54 AM

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Ok, heres a little sneak preview of it ;) I'll be finishing it off pretty soon, so I'll post a beta version here once its done;

http://216.127.75.251/...gi?d=1&query=cat

Any ideas/suggestions are welcome :)

Andy (mod)
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Sep 16, 2002, 4:05 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 4:05 AM

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Ok...beta is ready now. Please find it attached. There is no readme, as its all pretty simple. If anyone does have trouble with it, please start a thread about it, or carry on this one.

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Sep 16, 2002, 4:30 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 4:30 AM

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I may be wrong but I would have thought this line would cause a fatal error:

Code:
my ($mgr, $tar) = @_; 

          # if template already exist...dont get rid of em! 
           if (-e "$CFG->{admin_root_path}/templates/$CFG->{build_default_tpl}/search_link.html") { next; }

You can't use next; outside a loop (this is in Install.pm)

Sep 16, 2002, 5:51 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 5:51 AM

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Mmm....doesn't seem to cause an error, but I see where you are coming from. Maybe I should stick an 'if' around the install part, something like;

unless (file exists) { do template install }

I'll look into it....

Thanks

Andy (mod)
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Sep 16, 2002, 5:56 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 5:56 AM

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You'll need to change it is what I'm really saying as for me it does cause a fatal.

Code:
#!/perl/bin/perl -w 
#========================================================== 

   use strict; 

   if (! -e "non-existant.txt") { 
       next; 

   } 
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";  
   print "Done";

Log:

[Fri Mar 29 13:54:58 2002] [error] [client 213.106.15.158] Can't "next" outside a loop block at E:/Apache2/cgi-bin/test.cgi line 7.

Sep 16, 2002, 5:58 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 5:58 AM

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This one better? I've used the 'unless', like i showed in my last post...

Andy (mod)
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Sep 16, 2002, 6:27 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 6:27 AM

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It looks like you've used the code from my MyLinks plugin which uses a loop but you haven't copied over the loop.

You still have a last; in your nested unless.

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unless (!-e "$CFG->{admin_root_path}/templates/$CFG->{build_default_tpl}/search_link.html") { 
      my $file = $tar->get_file ("search_link.html"); 
      $file->name("$CFG->{admin_root_path}/templates/$CFG->{build_default_tpl}/search_link.html") or return Plugins::SearchFeed_Results->error("Error: $GT::Tar::error"); 
unless ($file->write) { 
             last; 
             return Plugins::SearchFeed_Results->error("Unable to extract file: '$CFG->{admin_root_path}/templates/$CFG->{build_default_tpl}/search_link.html' ($GT::Tar::error)", 'WARN'); 
      }
}

Sep 16, 2002, 8:21 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 8:21 AM

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Ok..should be sorted now...can't believe I missed that Crazy

I've also added a small readme...

Andy (mod)
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Sep 16, 2002, 8:28 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 8:28 AM

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Hehe sorry to keep getting you to update your plugin but now you aren't calling an error for $file->write so if the file isn't extracted (which can happen) then the user won't know and some site_html errors will start showing.

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Sep 16, 2002, 9:03 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 9:03 AM

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LOL..thats no problem Wink

Heres the updated version. I add a warn statement if the template was not uploaded successfully...

At least we are getting all of the bugs out of the way Smile

Andy (mod)
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Sep 16, 2002, 9:39 AM

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Sep 16, 2002, 9:39 AM

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Hi Andy,

What can I say, Thanks :-)

It sounds good with the searchfeed plugin ( I haven't read your post before now), and I will install it right away !

Cool !!!!
Take care, Bent

Hi Again.

I have just installed the script, but I got an error, hoping that you could tell me what is wrong.

When i install it, and try to do a search, I get this:

GT::Plugins (28734): Error running plugin PRE hook: Plugins::SearchFeed_Results::do_checks. Reason: Can't locate XML/Simple.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/home/bannerzone/www/cgi-bin/links/admin /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at /usr/home/bannerzone/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/home/bannerzone/www/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 23.
at GT::Plugins::_load_hook line 263.

Is there maybe something I haven't installed on the host where my site is? Or?

It's saying, can't locate XML, what is that....??? Shocked

Please help if you can... Cool

Thanks,

Bent

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Sep 21, 2002, 10:12 PM

fulcan

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Sep 21, 2002, 10:12 PM

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Hi,

Bannerzone - You may already have the answer to this, but what it means is that more than likely the perl module that handles the XML is not installed. I would talk to your sysadmin about getting the XML-Simple module installed which can be found here.
Webmaster
http://www.e-bannerx.com

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Sep 23, 2002, 12:08 AM

fulcan

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Sep 23, 2002, 12:08 AM

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Hi Andy,

On your search results, I have tried to make it run, however, when I type in a single word to be searched it works fine and I get all the results. However as soon as you type in two words like "alarm system" it gets an error. Here is the error message.Not an ARRAY reference at /home/virtual/site14/fst/var/www/cgi-bin/linkssql/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 85.Is there a way to fix this?Also, how do I get it to include search results from my own directory as well as the searchfeed.com results?Thanks
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Sep 23, 2002, 1:44 AM

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Sep 23, 2002, 1:44 AM

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Hi...sorry about that....it should be fixed up now. It was because the space in between the words was not being translated to a +. I've also added the code to edit anything like % $ £ " ! (i.e non-words) to a plus....if anyone has another way to edit them to URL friendly charachters, I'm all ears Wink

New version is available in the download area...

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 23, 2002, 1:55 AM

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Sep 23, 2002, 1:55 AM

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>>
if anyone has another way to edit them to URL friendly charachters, I'm all ears
<<

$IN->escape($url)

Oct 12, 2003, 12:04 AM

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Oct 12, 2003, 12:04 AM

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One of my users found a bug in this plugin. For some reason a search for creditcardconsolidators makes it return a completly blank page. See the HTML below.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Any ideas on this Andy? I have just disabled this as this is a show stopping bug. If you can't replicate this error let me know and I'll turn it on on my site so you can have a look.

cdkrg

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Oct 13, 2003, 8:26 AM

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Oct 13, 2003, 8:26 AM

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Andy,

I think I know what this is. I think that when Search Feed returns no results it kills the whole page somehow. Any ideas on how to change this?

cdkrg

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Oct 13, 2003, 9:28 AM

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Oct 13, 2003, 9:28 AM

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Interesting. After this line (in SearchFeed_Results.pm);

my $inc = $opts->{Active};

can you add;

if (!$results->{link_hits}) { return Links::SiteHTML::display('search', { error => 'No results were found for your query' } ); }

What does that do for you?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Oct 13, 2003, 9:48 AM

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Oct 13, 2003, 9:48 AM

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I get this error:

A fatal error has occured:

Undefined subroutine &Links::SiteHTML called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 51.

Please enable debugging in setup for more details.Stack Trace======================================Links (26729): Links::environment called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links.pm line 431 with no arguments.Links (26729): Links::fatal called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 51 with arguments (Undefined subroutine &Links::SiteHTML called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 51. ).Links (26729): Plugins::SearchFeed_Results::do_checks called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 118 with arguments (HASH(0x8588458)).Links (26729): GT::Plugins::dispatch called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/User/Search.pm line 67 with arguments (GT::Plugins, /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins, search_results, CODE(0x82530a4), HASH(0x83dc608)).Links (26729): Links::User::Search::search called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/User/Search.pm line 48 with no arguments.Links (26729): Links::User::Search::handle called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 108 with no arguments.Links (26729): GT::Plugins::dispatch called at search.cgi line 25 with arguments (GT::Plugins, /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins, handle_search, CODE(0x82353e0)).

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Oct 13, 2003, 11:49 AM

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Oct 13, 2003, 11:49 AM

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Try Links::SiteHTML::display

Oct 13, 2003, 1:09 PM

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Oct 13, 2003, 1:09 PM

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That gives the following error:

A fatal error has occured:

Can't use string ("No results were found for your q") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links.pm line 265.

Please enable debugging in setup for more details.Stack Trace======================================Links (7976): Links::environment called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links.pm line 431 with no arguments.Links (7976): Links::fatal called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links.pm line 265 with arguments (Can't use string ("No results were found for your q") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links.pm line 265. ).Links (7976): Links::user_page called at (eval 21) line 1 with arguments (search.html, error, No results were found for your query).Links (7976): Links::SiteHTML::site_html_search called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 108 with arguments (error, No results were found for your query).Links (7976): GT::Plugins::dispatch called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/SiteHTML.pm line 28 with arguments (GT::Plugins, /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins, site_html_search, *Links::SiteHTML::site_html_search, error, No results were found for your query).Links (7976): Links::SiteHTML::display called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins/SearchFeed_Results.pm line 51 with arguments (search, error, No results were found for your query).Links (7976): Plugins::SearchFeed_Results::do_checks called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 118 with arguments (HASH(0x85805e0)).Links (7976): GT::Plugins::dispatch called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/User/Search.pm line 67 with arguments (GT::Plugins, /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins, search_results, CODE(0x824a36c), HASH(0x83dbe20)).Links (7976): Links::User::Search::search called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Links/User/Search.pm line 48 with no arguments.Links (7976): Links::User::Search::handle called at /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/GT/Plugins.pm line 108 with no arguments.Links (7976): GT::Plugins::dispatch called at search.cgi line 25 with arguments (GT::Plugins, /home/a2kname/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/Plugins, handle_search, CODE(0x8235190)).

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Oct 13, 2003, 1:39 PM

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Oct 13, 2003, 1:39 PM

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The error => ... needs to be in {}

Oct 13, 2003, 2:44 PM

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Oct 13, 2003, 2:44 PM

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I tried many little variations of this:

if (!$results->{link_hits}) { return Links::SiteHTML::display('search', { error => 'No links were found!' }); }

I still get errors. Is there an obvious error in the syntax?

cdkrg

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Oct 13, 2003, 3:05 PM

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Oct 13, 2003, 3:05 PM

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What's the error message now?

Oct 13, 2003, 6:45 PM

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Oct 13, 2003, 6:45 PM

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It was different from all the others. It only said Fatal error and said that string could not be used.

It didn't output the detailed errors that I was reporting earlier.

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Oct 14, 2003, 4:31 AM

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Oct 14, 2003, 4:31 AM

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Think Andy may have to answer this. Sorry.

Oct 14, 2003, 6:44 AM

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Oct 14, 2003, 6:44 AM

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Exactly what did the error say?

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Oct 18, 2003, 3:08 AM

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Oct 18, 2003, 3:08 AM

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Sorry to get back to you so late. The error was not a GT error for that last attempt I made, it did not give any of the details. I can't reproduce it as I have uninstalled the plug in.

I'd be interested in using it but this is a show stopping bug for me so I'm looking into other ways to make monetize search. If anyone solves this one I'd sure like to know.

I'd also be very interested in a more advanced plug-in that pulls the feed for a special "sponsored" box on searches when your sites DOES return a result as well. I'd pay for that (especially if the plugin was flexible enough to adapt for other PPC advertising.

cdkrg

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Oct 18, 2003, 4:05 AM

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Oct 18, 2003, 4:05 AM

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Fixed now. I needed to define the XML::Parser as the prefered parsing system. I also had to make the fix for "Not an ARRAY reference", which was being caused when only one result was found. The latest version can be found in the plugins download area, and the download area on my site.

Cheers

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Oct 18, 2003, 7:01 PM

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Oct 18, 2003, 7:01 PM

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Awesome Andy! Do you think you'd be interested in making a commercial upgrade of this plugin that would pull the serachfeed even when there are local results?

cdkrg

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Oct 19, 2003, 2:29 AM

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Oct 19, 2003, 2:29 AM

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>>>Do you think you'd be interested in making a commercial upgrade of this plugin that would pull the serachfeed even when there are local results? <<<

Maybe in the future. I am pretty busy with custom work at the moment, so its hard to find time to do these extra little projects :(

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Oct 19, 2003, 8:19 AM

mick31

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Oct 19, 2003, 8:19 AM

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Hello Andy,

I like your plugin SearchFeed_Results.

But, I cannot use it.

SearchFeed is not international!

I use this service.

http://services.curryguide.com/docs/vseguide/

I propose search on my site with a link.

It is possible to propose a script like SearchFeed_Results?

Thank you

Mick

Oct 20, 2003, 12:49 AM

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Oct 20, 2003, 12:49 AM

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I do see where you are coming from, but my time is soooo used up at the moment with other jobs, I wouldn't personally have any time to do this kind of thing.

BTW: it doesn't look like curryguide.com offer XML feeds? Which is what you need to get the kind of results my SearchFeed_Results plugin gives.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Oct 20, 2003, 1:44 AM

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Oct 20, 2003, 1:44 AM

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I do see where you are coming from, but my time is soooo used up at the moment with other jobs, I wouldn't personally have any time to do this kind of thing.

Hello Andy,

I understand.

Yes, it seems that curryguide.com does not give a solution XML yet.

Thank you.

Sep 29, 2005, 12:14 AM