Comments on: How To: Creating a Life Stream

By: hans kainz

hans kainz — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:28:49 +0000

Hi, thanks for your great tutorial but the stream doesn´t work. I´ve updated everything but there is no data. Any idea?

By: Joe Tan

Joe Tan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:07:29 +0000

sure glad someone likes it! yeah, the theme is a bit specific to my site… perhaps i will spend some time in the future making it more friendly for use on other sites… but for now, you will have to do a little bit of hacking (hey, good learning opportunity right?)

By: joe rawr

joe rawr — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:09:37 +0000

Hey Joe, I just want to say thank you for your awesome TanTanTheme. I’ve spent the better part of my Friday afternoon mangling it to work for me. Thankfully we have the same first name, so i could skip some steps, other features not working still baffle me. i’m just chopping and cutting as i go. I love the flickr plugin, its so awesome! That kind of integration is what I was looking for in a my quest for a “is it a blog or is it a photoblog?” application. I dropped xanga about 2 years ago (just stopped blogging all together), but i’m excited to try your xanga-x-poster also.

anyways, thanks for being generous!

By: carl

carl — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:23:46 +0000

Thats it bro. thanks! I tried to make a lifestream.data file and making it writable but that did not work. I just pointed the script to a directory I use for cached files and voila!

My temp location for mine is here
http://www.carlandtracey.com/carl.php

I can’t get picasa to display images and I cant figure how to mark items from my google reader feed (since the url is the original file, not google) but other than that I am pretty happy.

Thanks for the great waste of time! lol

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:40:53 +0000

@carl, it looks like the script is having trouble opening the cache file for writing in that directory… make sure the directory you have the script in is writable by the web server, or you can change the $cacheFile variable and have it to point to a directory that is writable by the web server.

If that doesn’t work, then you could just disable the caching logic by deleting lines 35 – 38.

Hope that helps!

By: carl

carl — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:59:07 +0000

any idea what this is?

Warning: fopen(lifestream.data) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/revival/public_html/stream.php on line 35

I have my own VPS.