RSS Feed Character Limit

I have an RSS feed I want to sue but the feed gives the FULL TEXT of the article instead of a snippet.

Is there any way to have a character or word limit set for RSS fees displayed on the dolphin homepage?

I'm looking for it, too. Have you got any clues?

Cheers from Brazil, Felipe

editing the file "plugins/jquery/jquery.jfeed.js" may fix your problem.

im not really seeing anywhere in that file that pretains to character length....

Same problem here...

I just looked through that file and couldn't find any character settings.  anyone?

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Thanks coach! 

Unfortunately I got this error...

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /home/gradmin/public_html/inc/classes/BxRSS.php on line 72

This post was edited to remove a solution that did not work -- read down further for the fix to this isse.

It was missing a - ; at the end if summary.  I put that in and the page loads but the text isn't truncated.

This post was edited to remove a solution that did not work -- read down further for the fix to this isse.

Should have crossed your toes too.  Didn't work, still showing all.

Hmmm...

Maybe I am in the wrong area entirely... perhaps I should play before I post... lol

Let me play around on a test site.. see if I can get it...  brb...

D

Thanks for working on this!  Much appreciated.

Fourth time is the charm.. or is the fifth... lol

Open /inc/js/jquery.dolRSSFeed.js

find:::

var item = feed.items[iItemId];

After it paste the following:::

var trunc = item.description;

var thelength = 15;

if (trunc.length > thelength) {

trunc = trunc.substring(0,thelength);

trunc = trunc.replace(/\w+$/,'');

trunc = trunc +'.....';

item.description = trunc;

}

Fingers crossed - as the test server went down before I tested (routine maintenance) so this has not been tested. I have to take care of a few maintenance tasks - but will check back to see whether this (finally) worked for us.

D

Nope... didnt work!

Give me a sec...

That didnt work with the feeds I was testing with (containing HTML I think was the problem) - increase thelength = xxx and test it -- see if it is giving you enuf.

For feeds that contain HTML I found this works.

var trunc = item.description;

var thelength = 650; // change this value here until you get the look you want

if (trunc.length > thelength) {

trunc = trunc.substring(0,thelength);

trunc = trunc.replace(/\w+$/,'');

trunc = trunc +'.....<br>';

trunc.innerHTML = trunc;

}

I hope this does it!  

D

var trunc = item.description;

var thelength = 250; // change this value here until you get the look you want

if (trunc.length > thelength)

{

trunc = trunc.substring(0,thelength);

trunc = trunc.replace(/\w+$/,'');

trunc = trunc +'.....'; item.description = trunc;

}

Is that the finished code?? -- Just so others can change theirs if they need to.

I had forgotten to mention to change the item.description in the <div> couple lines down to

+ trunc +

instead of

+ item.description + 

Either way - I am glad (so very very glad) that we got it working for you.

Daniel

yup that should do it!

I dont know about you - but WHEW!!!

;)

I am SO not a javascript guy - so it was luck and chance we got it... lol

Time for a smoke and a coffee, both of us (should you be a smoker) - a reward for job well done and another forum question solved!

LOL

I'm sure there will be plenty of members very grateful to you for solving this.  A job well done!

Stuart: Glad to hear it helped you as well.. I havent forgotten the other task.. my test server been going up and down all day -- new guy thinks its fun to reboot or something... but its my first task in the morning.

D

I was able to get it to work with the above code.... thanks guys, i would of never come up with that!

it works thank you so much guy

i have an opposite problem---my RSS content is not showing any of the content of a forum post.

it's only showing who posted--but not the first sentence of the post or not even a word...

any ideas where the issue may be?

 Daniel - thanks for posting a solution!  Works perfectly!

Cheers - Jethro