readme updates

README.md

@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@ Example paths are given for CPanel type servers:
 
 * Feed - /home/USER_NAME/public_html/feed.xml 
 * HTML - /home/USER_NAME/public_html/index.html
-* Error Log - /home/USER_FOLDER/public_html/feed.log 
+* Error Log - /home/USER_NAME/public_html/feed.log 
+
+You can change the length of time the feed retains by altering this variable to the time you’d like in weeks:
+
+```
+my $num_weeks = 2;
+```
 
 ## The Site
 

blankRSS.pl

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ use warnings;
 # Packages 
 
 use Time::Piece; # https://perldoc.perl.org/Time::Piece
+use Time::Seconds; # https://perldoc.perl.org/Time::Seconds
 use LWP::Simple; # https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP::Simple
 use XML::RSS; # https://metacpan.org/pod/XML::RSS
 use HTML::Entities; # https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Entities
@@ -52,9 +53,12 @@ my $copyright = 'Copyright respective writers';
 # add to new RSS feed object
 ###################################
 
+# number of weeks in the past to hold RSS feed
+my $num_weeks = 2;
+
 # get today, subtact time to make cut off
 my $now = localtime;
-my $then = $now->add_months(-2);
+my $then = $now - (ONE_WEEK * $num_weeks); 
 
 #number of items to keep from each feed
 my $number_of_items = 2; # +1 since everything starts at 0
@@ -146,7 +150,7 @@ while ( my $url = <DATA>) {
 } # while DATA
 
 #close out the list URL html
-$listHTML .= "</div></ul>\n";
+$listHTML .= "</ul></div>\n";
 
 ###################################
 #  Write the error file 
@@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ foreach my $name (reverse sort keys %list) {
         	link  => $list{$name}->{'link'},
         	description => $list{$name}->{'description'},
         	pubDate => $list{$name}->{'pubDate'},
-        	author => $list{$name}->{'dc'}{'creator'},
+        	author => $list{$name}->{'itemAuthor'},
         	source => $list{$name}->{'feedName'},
         	sourceUrl => $list{$name}->{'feedURL'},
        ); # $rss->channel