By canadrian on

At long last, enough contrib modules have been upgraded for 4.7 for me to upgrade my site. So far, so good - pretty-much everything seems to be working, and most little bugs I'm sure will be ironed out soon.

But the last module that is pretty essential for my site is aggregator2 - I use it to syndicate the off-site blogs of members as normal nodes (with all the advantages that entails), and automatically assign points for posts. Anyhoo... I was wondering how ready aggregator2 actually is for use on Drupal 4.7? I realize the cvs version is designed for 4.7, but has anyone had any experience with it on 4.7.0 (not on the RCs, as I've seen people having trouble with those).

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colorado’s picture

colorado commented

I tried it on a fresh 4.7.0 install just yesterday. I received no errors but no items were received either. I know my feed data is correct because I have the same feed working just fine in one of my 4.6.5 installs.

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stephthegeek commented

Ditto. I was checking out Aggregator + Aggregator Node but that wasn't accomplishing nearly as much as I'd hoped to with Aggregator2.

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canadrian commented

I guess I'll give it a try. As least my existing aggregator2 nodes should work better than they do without the module, even if no new nodes are created.
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adixon commented

i upgraded an existing drupal install with aggregator2 from 4.6 to 4.7 (initially an rc3 and then 4.7.1). I upgraded aggregator 2 to the cvs version, which as noted is 4.7 though not tagged.

initially nothing worked, so i looked in the code and discovered that the node types had been changed from using a dash to an underscore! i.e. aggregator2_feed instead of aggregator2-feed (and with the items also).

conclusion: i did this to my database (in mysql):

update node set type = 'aggregator2_item' where type = 'aggregator2-item'
update node set type = 'aggregator2_feed' where type = 'aggregator2-feed';

and it now seems to be working. I haven't added any new feeds, but at least it's updating from the existing ones.

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colorado commented

This looks promising -- after running those commands in phpMyAdmin (the first line also needs a semi-colon ; added to the end) the feed seems to be working properly an items are being received!

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adixon’s picture

adixon commented

Turned out that adding new feeds and editing existing ones wasn't working because of an sql change. I manually did the sql change (you can see it in the cvs log, and an extra field added), or you could also try using the devel module to reload the agg2 module, that should run the updates correctly.

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drupalfan commented

Does anyone know when the aggregator2 module will be updated so we don't have to manually edit the SQL?

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eTech commented

I did the cvs install on an 4.7.2 and the underscores are ok.
But an error occured when i try to adjust the aggregator2_logo settings:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: form_checkbox() in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/mydomain.com/subdomains/news/httpdocs/modules/contributed/aggregator2_logo.module on line 68

Most likely cause: the module is specific for Drupal 4.6: http://drupal1.osuosl.org/node/50099

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funana commented

Got the same problem with form_checkbox() in aggregator2_logo module settings.

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Max Bell commented

I've been working with it, myself, with good results; I've simply turned off the logo module for now. I'm really surprised there is not more interest in this module, however.

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3dsoft commented

I am also interested in that module for 4.7
Same problem with form_checkbox() in aggregator2_logo module settings here.

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hickory commented

(just registering my interest, in case someone's able to fix the logo module)

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ekul08 commented

Me too! I REALLY want to be able to use Aggregator2 on 4.7 properly! I havent actually tried yet, so im gonna give it a go.

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mindwarz commented

Really need this aggregator 2 modules or i need mysql tables for aggregator version 4.7. Here is my situation. I was using CVS version with aggregator 2 that required that i deleted the orginal aggregator tables i recently upgraded to 4.7 but my upgrade did not create aggregator tables that i need to run aggregator. So now i have no aggregators available to me ANY HELP

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