[jonah] Can't update news channels

[Rick Emery]

Quoting Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:

OK, I'm going to need some help with this one because I'm *way* out of my
element here.

> no but i seem to recall that there have been a couple commits to
> horde/lib/Cache.php so make sure you have all your libs cvs updated...

That seems to be where the problem is...I explain below.

> try var_dumping a bit in /jonah/news/stories.php to see where it breaks. it's
> tough to tell where it is failing from just a white page.
> a few people have got external channels running so they seem to work.

I've done some debugging, and the problem seems to be related to
horde/jonah/lib/News.php line 226:

$stories = $cache->getData($url,
"Horde_Serialize::serialize(Jonah_News::_fetchExternalStories('$url',
'$timestamp'), SERIALIZE_UTF7_BASIC);", $interval);

(in the file, that's all on one line)

Using var_dump and print, I determined that $url, $timestamp, and $interval
appear to contain valid values (they get printed onto the empty white frame I
was getting). On the line immediately below the one I listed above, I added
"var_dump($stories);" and nothing was displayed. Initially I thought $stories
was empty, but I replaced the var_dump with "print('Got here');" and still
nothing was displayed. It almost seems as though the script is dying on that
line, and nothing after is being processed. I opened up Cache.php to look at
getData, and quickly realized that I don't know enough about "the big picture"
to understand what it's doing.

I updated all of horde from cvs and tried all of this again, with the same
results. Also, you mentioned that there have been recent changes to Cache.php,
so I stopped php accelerator and flushed my browser cache just to be sure I was
using the right one.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Rick