Comments on: The Poor Man’s eBay RSS to WordPress Hack

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:11:23 +0000

Hi, I wonder if you might be able to tell me how I change the number of items firstrss displays? I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere.

I noticed your tweaked file, but I don’t need caching or anything else – I just want to be able to change the number of headlines displayed.

Thanks!

~Mark

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:57:43 +0000

Ohhh that looks like a good one, and specifically for ebay. Thanks for swinging back and letting us know about it uberpiglet .

Good luck with mega ebay commissions!

By: uberpiglet

uberpiglet — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:54:01 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion and help…I decided to use this plug-in instead it seems to do the trick well! Cheers.
http://www.wiredstudios.com/phpbay/phpbay-lite-wordpress-plugin-display-ebay-auctions-in-wordpress.html

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:49:56 +0000

I just found my old copy of the plugin, download it here and you’ll see the cache and display amount tweaks. Maybe you can hack your way through it .

http://superaff.com/downloads/firstRSS.txt

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:27:25 +0000

uberpiglet I haven’t played with this for awhile, but I did a quick check and it looks like eBay did a change somewhere. I know when I wrote this I could do the specific search, get the rss link for that search and then change the amount displayed from within that link.

If you see this part of the ebay rss link: frpp=25, at one time you could change that number (25) to something like “5″ and it would only display 5 items in the feed. Doesn’t work now. In fact I look at the ebay feed and it’s forcing 100 listings even when an advance search for ’25′ is made.

I know with “carp” you can control the amount of feed items displayed, though I think you’d have to buy an upgraded version to get the pics displayed with them (it’s cheap though). But getting carp to display feeds within a post is a whole nother issue itself. The plugin phpexec might do the trick though (display php within a post).

Sorry I couldn’t be more help.

By: uberpiglet

uberpiglet — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:39:52 +0000

I don’t suppose you know how to change the amount of items..the cache time and make it display images. The latest version, which I am using doesn’t seem have any options to change these settings in the php file. So I have 50 odd entries…not cool! Cheers.

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By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:41:42 +0000

I’ve been chatting with Gary by email and he has everything setup right that I can see, referred him to this post:
http://pkponline.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_pkponline_archive.html

Just an FYI for anyone else having trouble, it may be a host issue.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:59:56 +0000

Thanks for the informative post. Maybe you could help me out with my problem.

I tried this on my blog but as you can see it’s not displaying results no matter if I use rsspara or rsslist.

http://cleanpctips.com/ebayblog/

Any ideas why not?

Thanks,
Gary