[RESOLVED] RSS Feed

Shawazi

When I go to my page, it just shows up blank. I put in the header to say it's XML but my browser still doesn't like it. Any ideas?

<? header("Content-type: application/xml; charset=encoding=\"iso-8859-1\""); ?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<? 
require_once("../V1_connection.php");
$articles_res = mysql_query($articles_query);
while ($article = mysql_fetch_array($articles_res))
{
	//ommited the definition of the url and title
	echo "<item>";
	echo "<title>".$article['title']."</title>";
	echo "<description>".$article['teaser']."</description>";
	echo "<link>".$article_url."</link>";
	echo "<pubDate>".date("r", $article['posted_on'])."</pubDate>";
	echo "</item>";
}
?>
</channel>
</rss>

Shawazi

my htaccess also has:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml

the PHP parses fine if I take away all the XML lines and use that. I also can create an RSS feed using static XML WITHOUT that AddType line. Why would the server not work properly when it uses PHP with XML?

jernhenrik

Try echoing this line instead of just writing it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

e.g.

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> ';

and believe you should be getting some error messages regardless.

hth
JH

NogDog

Looks like you may be running into a collision between PHP short tags and the <?xml tag. This is why it's best to have short_open_tags turned off in your PHP installation and instead use <?php tags.

I would suggest adding the following line to your .htaccess file...

php_value short_open_tag 0

...and then replace all of your "<?" opening PHP tags with "<?php".

Shawazi

I'm gonna give that a try Nog. Hopefully find and replace will do the trick and not crash my site heh.

Shawazi

It worked - brilliant! I never knew why people would turn that off ha