Re: [gleaman] AM2 Article Content Year stops at 2010

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:01:23 -0800

Aha! You are the man my friend. Thanks so much. Phew! LOL

Re: [gleaman] AM2 Article Content Year stops at 2010

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:30:12 -0800

CRAP! Mine too!! I'm so busted like this! I hope we get it fixed.

Thr $50 discount from December newsletter

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:56:16 -0800

I know I'm 15 days late on this one, but is there a tiny chance of me being able to cash in on the $50 discount you offered on the newsletter to buy my 2nd CMS Builder license?

I've been an IT user since 2001 using Article Manager and Realty Manager and CMS Builder for my sites.

Ok enough sucking up. :)

Thanks!

Colin

Flash XML Content slider with contents pulled from AM2

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:37:27 -0800

I want to use one of the cool looking flash XML content sliders which are available at http://activeden.net/

I was wondering if there was anyone successful in implementing one that links to an XML file created by AM2 to display a certain amount of headlines (with associated images that will slide).

There are quite a bit of content sliders on that page but I'm not sure which one is best for this particular job. Linking to an external XML file is a must, obviously.

Thanks,

Colin

Re: [diness] Change from Artman 2 to CMS builder

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:36:26 -0800

I've been using AM since 2001. I wouldn't mind PAYING to get CMS Builder to be honest, but I have over 8,000 articles in AM2 at the moment and unless there's a way to convert all those to CMS Builder I have no intention of changing and upgrading.

Plus I'm still not convinced that CMS builder can do all the stuff that AM2 does. I use AM2 for my news site and it is very flexible not to mention I also power my iPhone App from it.

Besides that, changing the URL's of all news stories would create a headache for those links crawled in search engines already.

Re: [biruel] The end of the Article Manager?

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:05:26 -0800

Yeah I noticed that too. It's a shame. AM2 is very powerful and does things that CMS Builder doesn't.

Not cool.

Re: [Donna] XML feed format question

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:20:51 -0700

I'll have to talk to the developer about that but from what he told me, the code just loads whatever the XML file shows so if there's a line break in the XML file then it will appear in the app.

Re: [Donna] XML feed format question

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:50:37 -0700

Well it's not technically a page. The XML file is called from my iPhone App which is, well, only available on iPhone :)

I thought the text only tag would strip all the HTML out that's why I used that but I guess it doesn't work for XML?

If you load the XML file for example at

http://www.wrestling-online.com/news/iphonewwe.xml

and see the source code of that and scroll down or look for "Melina" there are a couple of stories like it that in the description tag it also skips a line.

XML feed format question

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:04:49 -0700

Hi guys,

Ok, as you might or might not know, I have an iPhone app which feeds off my AM2 articles.

I created different pub rules in XML output and I have something that I need to fix but can't figure out how because a) either the feed doesn't load or b) stays the same.

So, here's what I have.

In the Article Row template cell I have:

      
        $article.title:textOnly:htmlEncoded$
        $published.articleiphonexml.url$
      	$article.date:format(www, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss)$ EST
        $article.content:textOnly:htmlEncoded:maxWords(20)$...
        $published.articleiphonexml.url$

That displays the headline and then the first 20 words of the article content as the preview.

The way it's set like that, I get the HTML format so if I skip a line before the first 20 words, it's displayed.

I don't want that. I need the first 20 words "unformatted" so to speak so it all displays in one nice paragraph.

What's the correct tag to use? I'm attaching a screenshot to show you how it's displayed right now.

Thanks.

Re: [Dave] php to shtml .htaccess file

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:16:29 -0700

I used the code rather than the usual SSI include tag. I edited each file manually.

Oh well. It didn't take as much as I thought!

Re: [chris] php to shtml .htaccess file

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:44:44 -0700

Well SSI works if I empty the .htaccess file; they're just not working together that's the odd thing.

Using PHP include works but that means I have to edit all files manually now :)

php to shtml .htaccess file

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:22:06 -0700

Hi

I was recently using the command

"Addhandler application/x-httpd-php .shtml .php"

in the .htaccess file for my CMS Builder website and recently my Hosts moved my site to a new server and the page wasn't being displayed and only showing the code of the website instead of the proper output.

They told me that I need to change it to the following command:

"AddHandler php5-cgi .shtml .php"

While the php data loads, the SSI doesn't. I've been sending emails back and forth for three days now and I can't seem to resolve this problem.

Any idea what else I can try?

Thanks.

Re: [ross] AM2 articles/XML feeds successfully converted into iPhone App

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:19:22 -0700

I'm happy to announce that our iPhone App which feeds off from the AM2 installed on the website is now LIVE on the Apple iTunes Store.

This App will list all the latest headlines and stories in four different categories for easy reading - WWE, TNA, MMA and General.

Download it for FREE at http://bit.ly/1XKN90

Any feedback would be appreciated especially from the IT guys.

Colin
Wrestling-Online.com

Re: [ross] AM2 articles/XML feeds successfully converted into iPhone App

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:04:47 -0700

I'll post here when it's successfully submitted. I currently only have two betas which are locked to two different iPhones.

AM2 articles/XML feeds successfully converted into iPhone App

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:06:03 -0700

So I have finally managed to convert my AM2 news articles and RSS feeds into an iPhone App.

It took an iPhone developer and $300 to do it but I think the end result is wonderful.

What I did is I created 5 different XML feeds, one for each category I wanted. I then created an other rule to output the articles in XML format. It took a while to figure out everything because of the special characters in articles but eventually everything came through.

I'm in the process of submitting the app to Apple for iTunes, which will cost an additional $99. I decided the app will be free....for now so there's certainly no income off this one. It's ad free as well....for now.

You can see a preview of how it looks at http://www.wrestling-online.com/iphone/preview/

I found the guy through GetAFreeLancer.com after several bids and long discussions.

Colin
Wrestling-Online.com

Re: [ross] Need to convert all content into .xml

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:35 -0700

I did infact get it worked out...I'm posting a new topic because I turned my feeds into an iPhone app. :)

Re: [Donna] Need to convert all content into .xml

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:28:48 -0700

I'm having an issue too as all the special characters like #, & and stuff like that are popping an error and not being displayed.

What's the best way to change them from & to & as I cannot go and edit them one by one. What kind of encoding would this be?

Is this possible with one template?

Sun, 10 May 2009 06:27:45 -0700

I was wondering if it's possible to do the below with one template.

I want to have a template that shows

a) Image of latest news post of the particular category
b) First link below the image in bold (image is related to the first link)
c) Top 4 headlines of the particular category underneath them.

I'm attaching an image to give you a basic idea of how I want it to look.

I have six different categories and each of them will have its own template with the above.

Thanks,

Colin

News ticker question

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:55:15 -0700

So I got this new newsticker script which works via flash. It's pretty nice and all that and managed to make it work however it's only pulling the last news I'm posting and keeps rotating the same link.

I created a new publishing rule and used a different XML template to follow what the script needed to work.

The xml file is at
http://www.wrestling-online.com/news/news.xml

The shtml file that calls the flash file is at
http://www.wrestling-online.com/news/newsticker.shtml

Loading the XML file shows all the headlines so that's working good but for some odd reason it only pulls the latest headline.

Is there something I'm missing from the AM2 end? Loading the XML test file that came with the script worked fine without any problems.

Thanks.

Colin

Re: [ColinW-O] Output as ASCII text

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:11:55 -0800

Never mind, I fixed, I forgot to close a font tag :)

Re: [ross] Output as ASCII text

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:54:17 -0800

Can you check out http://www.hurp-malta.com/races.shtml?Pozzallo-1---09-11-2008-1 and see why is it displaying tiny ASCII text rather than the normal text?

The

 tags did work but it's so small it's hard to read. Maybe I'm missing something?

Thanks.

Re: [ross] Output as ASCII text

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:53:44 -0800

The

 tags did the job! Awesome.

Thanks.

Output as ASCII text

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:04:32 -0800

One of my clients is a pigeon racing club (it's a big "sport" here in Europe!) They output their results from races in ASCII text only and I created a Races link where they can cut and paste their results.

I changed the Content field to be text field rather than WYSIWYG so it keeps the same format since they're nicely done in columns etc. However when I publish it obviously outputs in HTML rather than ASCII text so it loses the whole format.

Any way I can change this?

Thanks.

Colin

First time CMS Builder buyer

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:08:29 -0800

Purchased CMS Builder last week for a client. Pretty good, I like it. This is my third IT product (I have AM2, used Realty Manager and now CMS) and I'm never disappointed.

Good job! And thank you for all the support you give here on the forums. It's the reason why I don't even bother looking at other products because I know that if I have a problem I will come here and it will get fixed quickly.

Colin
Wrestling-Online.com

Twitter

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:50:03 -0800

Anyone ever experimented anything with Twitter and AM2? Seems like everyone uses it but I don't know if it's worth the time and effort.

Posting anything on Twitter would push people only to visit when they see a message instead of just going randomly throughout the day. But then again so do RSS feeds etc.

Anyone has or is using it to drive traffic to their sites?

Colin
Wrestling-Online.com