Comments on: Building a Datafeed Site – Step 1

By: Brian Metzger

Brian Metzger — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:14:25 +0000

Thanks for the post. At ASW11, several people mentioned how they would love to do datafeeds but the technical hurdle was too much. Since Datafeeds are our bread and butter, I don’t mind the chasm. It keeps the pool less crowded so to speak. But thanks for addressing it.

The main hurdle even beyond just getting a data feed site set up is the ability to update it, and make it automated. The other factor is how to add your own value to the datafeed through content, etc.

It keeps our programmers busy…

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By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:25:12 +0000

Eric,
Thanks for the quick response.

I use 1&1 shared hosting and I believe the issue lies with the PHP configuration. I read something about it on the web earlier that this type of authentication does not work with PHP running as a CGI – I know my host does that. I did not, however, find any alternative solution to embed into the pages.

My host has an alternate method of securing individual pages from my site’s control panel, so I will likely just use that in the interim.

Thanks!
Matt

By: Eric Nagel

Eric Nagel — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:02:14 +0000

I’d have to do some debugging on your server to find the answer to this. It’s a pretty standard login script. You can try putting a print_r($_SERVER); after the else { in admin-password.php to see what values are in PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:35:10 +0000

I’m getting the admin page login screen over and over when I enter in the appropriate values. Any ideas?

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By: Isaac

Isaac — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:10:45 +0000

First visit to your site, a welcomed resource I’ll be following your feed articles closely. I’ve been looking around for a solution for my current website a mobile phone comparison site. Not a great niche I know but I appropriate the effort you have gone to here thank you.

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By: ArtMan

ArtMan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:42:38 +0000

Mike,
The advantage of doing the code is you’ll have more control over the end results and how it works. With an alreday-made plugin you are very much limited to the Author is providing.

Now I’d like to know if this is easy to implement into wordpress.

Art

By: Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:27:53 +0000

I understand that you know the technical side of building a site like this, the only problem I see is that there are already a dozen plugins or more available that can do this entire process in minutes as opposed to building it from scratch like this.

JMHO.

Mike