[SOLVED] Stuck at version 3.0

Scottb, Whatadd-on is it that you currently use?

It’s the AJW Feed Parser. The developer’s website no longer has the 4/5 version, he has deleted his support forums, and he isn’t answering emails.

My site depends heavily on weather forecasts. I have been using the parser to pull in the data from a third party and automatically display the data in templates.

Have you tried upgrading to EE6 and seeing if it still worked? I just tried the EE3 version on an EE 6.0.3 with the sample Flickr snippet and all seems to work fine.

{exp:ajw_feedparser 
 url="http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=25509357@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200"
 cache_refresh="60"
 limit="5"
}
<h3 class="title">{count}/{total_results}: {title}</h3>
<h4>Tags: {media:category}</h4>
{description}
{media:thumbnail@url}
Posted by <em>{author}</em> 
{/exp:ajw_feedparser}

I may have modified it a long time ago to work, but I think I just have the version straight from his site.

I’m trying to install V5 at a folder below root to test the plugin but keep getting “Unable to locate any database connection information”. I can find no postings anywhere to explain the problem.

The server wizard produces only a blank white screen. This is on a site that currently runs EE without a problem.

You could maybe try this add-on?

https://devot-ee.com/add-ons/datagrab

It can read and import XML data feeds as well other formats.

@scottb. It looks like that error occurs when the installer is looking for your database.php file from 2.x nor is the database information in your config.php file.

Vw000, thanks for your reply. That plugin pulls data into entries. The plugin I need pulls them onto templates and overwrites the templates.

Andy, I’m trying to install a new version of v5 in a separate location and not upgrade from 2x. In addition, there is nothing in config.php for v5 that allows for the placement of database information. I have followed the installation guidelines exactly.

FYI, I have been using EE on multiple sites since 2007. I have never run into this problem.

As an alternative to paying $99 to solve the problem, I can just go ahead and upgrade the existing site if you feel confident that the plugin will work in v5 or v6.

interesting. So when you went to install v5 did you get the initial install screen where you enter your database information, admin account, etc and click install? Just wondering where in the process you got the database connection error.

A couple issues that I think might lead to this error: using the same database for EE5 as the EE2 site so it thinks there should be connection information since the database isn’t empty or the index.php and/or admin.php file of your EE5 site is pointing the system folder of your EE2 site.

Do you have a local environment setup? you can always download your files and database and then test locally. If you don’t have a local environment then I’d suggest reviewing the list of environments that we know work with ExpressionEngine in the docs: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/installation/requirements.html#local-development . I always test locally first for upgrades.

Regarding if AJW Feed Parser 100% works in EE5/6. I can’t guarantee that. All I can say is that it’s worked in my test. If there’s anything you’re doing that I haven’t tested then there might be issues.

scottb, any luck with this?

Thanks for following up, Andy. I succeeded with installing v6 in a separate environment, so the v5 problem is no longer an issue. But I haven’t had time to set up test templates (it’s a lot of code) and try the plugin yet. I hope to get an answer next week.

Hey scottb, please keep us updated, as I’m running v6 and would love to be able to pull in weather forecasts. I used to have a program that would scrape the weather.gov printable forecast page, but I don’t even know how to start making that work with EE. 😊

Cheers!

Andy, the first test on a development server was a success. I plan to watch it for a few days to make sure it continues updating. Thanks again very much for your help.

lki, I’m using World Weather Online as my data source. It has a limited free version and a cheap premium version. It works a lot better than scraping weather.gov, which I have done in the past. Customer service isn’t very good, but the product has been reliable.