Grouper Function Reference : GrouperShow

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Function Reference

GrouperShow(searchterms [, cachefile [, showit [, fromcache]]]);

DEPRICATED: Beginning with Grouper 1.6, replace the use of GrouperShow with GrouperConvert or GrouperSearch, depending on which source or plugin you are using.

Fetches an RSS newsfeed from the internet, a local file, or a local cache file and outputs it according to any settings you may have specified. If a cache file was specified, the PHP variable $grouperconf['mtime'] will contain the UNIX timestamp for the last time the cache was updated after this function is called.

searchterms: The terms you would like to search for if using a Search source (eg. Google News).
cachefile: The filename of the cache file in which to store a copy of Grouper's output. If this argument is omitted, no cache file is used, and the data is re-retrieved every time. We recommend only doing this while working on the configuration (unless using GrouperCache to maintain a local copy of the data or using a local file as the data source). Once you have finalized your settings, you will see significantly faster performance by specifying a cache file.
showit: If you set this argument to 0, GrouperShow will generate or update the specified cache file, but will not display any data.
fromcache: If you have saved data using the GrouperCache function, you may specify the name of the cache file it created. If you do, GrouperShow will read the data from that file instead of retrieving it again. Note that if you specify a filename here, any search terms you specify will be ignored, since the search terms were determined when you called GrouperCache.

Example: (search Google News for "cuisine", and store output in a file named "google-cuisine", and output the RSS data)

<?php
require_once '/YOUR/PATH/TO/grouper/grouper.php';
GrouperShow('cuisine','google-cuisine');
?>

Example: (search Google News for "cuisine", and store output in a file named "google-cuisine" -- then use CaRP to display it as HTML)

<html>
<head>
<title>This is the page title</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
require_once '/YOUR/PATH/TO/grouper/grouper.php';
GrouperShow('cuisine','google-cuisine',0);
require_once '/YOUR/PATH/TO/carp/carp.php';
CarpShow('grouper:google-cuisine');
?>
</body>
</html>

NOTE: For Grouper versions before 1.6, the CarpShow line must be as follows:

CarpShow('/YOUR/PATH/TO/grouper/rsscache/google-cuisine');