I had some problems with my RSS working in conjunction with my Yahoo Widgets Engine rss feed reader widget (I think it had to do with the Yahoo Widget engine reading only RSS 2.0).  Anyway, I rewrote the rss.php file for RSS 2.0 (to the best of my ability and it passed RSS 2.0 validation).  If anyone else would like to use it, I've pasted it below.  You still have to call the rss feed as 'your_site/rss.php?mndo=rss'.  Hope it helps.

EDIT: See my post below for the correct scripting.  (I had a couple of small bugs / errors, but it works now).

EDIT: edited out wrong code

btw, AWESOME news script!!  It works wonders!!

Last edited by sidtheduck (19-07-2006 18:34:16)

Hallo ich habe den Quelltext geändert um .../rss.php direkt und ohne .../rss.php?mndo=rss aufzurufen ! es klappt wunderbar.  Änderungen im xml header !!
<?
// send xml header
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1');
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>\n";
echo "<rss version=\"2.0\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:admin=\"http://webns.net/mvcb/\" xmlns:rdf=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:content=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\">";
error_reporting(0);


$dir=substr(__FILE__, 0, strrpos(__FILE__, "/")+1);

// load config
include_once($dir."config.inc.php");

?>
<channel>
<title><?=htmlspecialchars($rssTitle)?></title>
<link><?=$rssChannelUrl?></link>
<description><?=htmlspecialchars($rssDescription)?></description>
<language>de</language>
<author>Denny</author>
<copyright>Denny Eberhardt</copyright>

<?
// Constructing RSS feed

// news data
$dat=$dir."data.dat";                       
$foo=file($dat);
$stuff= new mdasort;
$stuff->sortkeys = array(array('time','DESC'));

if (count($foo)==0){
    $empty=true;
}else{
    $i=0;
    foreach ($foo as $line){
        $line=explode("|", rtrim($line));
        if ($line[2]=="static" || ($line[2]=="dynamic" && $line[1]<$now)){
            $stuff->data[$i] = array("id" => $line[0], "time" => $line[1], "mode" => $line[2], "title" => $line[3], "story" => $line[4], "teaser" => $line[5]);
            $i++;
        }       
    }
    if ($i>0){
        $stuff->sortkeys = array(array('time','DESC'));
        $stuff->msort();
        $numposts=count($stuff->data);
    }else{
        $empty=true;
        $numposts=0;
    }
}

$i=0;
$news = array_slice ($stuff->data, 0, $rssNumNews);

// krsort($news);
foreach ($news as $row){
    $title =  htmlspecialchars(html_entity_decode(strip_tags(stripslashes($row['title']))));
    $description = htmlspecialchars(html_entity_decode(strip_tags(stripslashes($row['teaser']))));
    $link = $rssNewspageUrl.((strpos($rssNewspageUrl, "?")!==false) ? "&amp;" : "?")."mnid=".$row['id'];
    $i++;

    echo '
    <item>
    <title>'.$title.'</title>
    <link>'.$link.'</link>
    <description>'.$description.'</description>
    <pubdate>'.date('d.m.Y', $row['time']).'</pubdate>
    </item>    ';

}

?>
</channel>
</rss>

Last edited by Denny (18-07-2006 17:13:29)

hi sidtheduck!

i have past your code in rss.php file of my_news script... but when i visit the page i have this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /web/htdocs/www.e-torricelli.it/home/notizie/rss.php on line 8

do you know the reason??

i want to do a thing like this: http://www.tvnews-wildeck.de/Archiv2006 … p?mndo=rss

whit ?mndo=rss or without ?mndo=rss in the URL

thanks for the help you will give me! ;D

Last edited by skyh4wk (19-07-2006 16:13:28)

EDIT: Edited to render correctly on these forums.  Just cut and paste the text below and it should work well.

<?
// send xml header
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n";
echo "<rss version=\"2.0\">";
error_reporting(0);


$dir = substr(__FILE__, 0, strrpos(__FILE__, "/")+1);

// load config
include_once($dir."config.inc.php");


?>

   <channel>
      <title><?=htmlspecialchars($rssTitle)?></title>
      <ttl>60</ttl>
      <link><?=$rssChannelUrl?></link>
      <description><?= htmlspecialchars($rssDescription)?></description>
      <language>en-us</language>
      <lastBuildDate><?= date('r', filemtime($dir.'data.dat'))?></lastBuildDate>
<?
// Constructing RSS feed

// news data
$dat = $dir."data.dat";
$foo = file($dat);
$stuff = new mdasort;
$stuff->sortkeys = array(array('time', $rssOrder));

if (count($foo) == 0){
   $empty = true;
}else{
   $i = 0;
   foreach ($foo as $line){
      $line = explode("|", rtrim($line));
      if ($line[2] == "static" || ($line[2] == "dynamic" && $line[1]<$now)){
         $stuff->data[$i] = array("id" => $line[0], "time" => $line[1], "mode" => $line[2], "title" => $line[3], "story" => $line[4], "teaser" => $line[5]);
         $i++;
      }
   }
   if ($i>0){
      $stuff->msort();
      $numposts = count($stuff->data);
   }else{
      $empty = true;
      $numposts = 0;
   }
}

$i=0;
$news = array_slice ($stuff->data, 0, $rssNumNews);

foreach ($news as $row){
   $title = htmlspecialchars(html_entity_decode(strip_tags(stripslashes($row['title']))));
   $description = htmlspecialchars(html_entity_decode(strip_tags(stripslashes($row['teaser'])))) ;
   $link = $rssNewspageUrl.((strpos($rssNewspageUrl, "?")!==false) ? "&amp;" : "?")."mnid=".$row['id'];
   $i++;

   echo '      <item>
         <title>'.$title.'</title>
         <link>'.$link.'</link>
         <description>'.$description.'</description>
         <pubDate>'.date("r", $row['time']).'</pubDate>
         <guid>'.$link.'</guid>
      </item>
';

}
?>
   </channel>
</rss>

Last edited by sidtheduck (28-08-2006 17:56:31)

skyh4wk wrote:

thanks for the help!

but i'm sorry... i have the same problem...

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /web/htdocs/www.e-torricelli.it/home/notizie/rss.php on line 9

i don't know what i can do! :(

this is the link: http://www.e-torricelli.it/notizie/rss.php?mndo=rss

Try this on line 9.

Change:

$dir=substr(__FILE__, 0, strrpos(__FILE__, "/")+1);

To this:

$dir=dirname(__FILE__) . "/";

If that doesn't work, try this:

$dir="';

The last one should work as long as your '/forum/rss.html' file is in the same directory as the '/forum/config.inc.html' file.

Last edited by sidtheduck (19-07-2006 19:34:43)

i have resolve the problem!!!

i have deleted on line 54 <br> and on line 20 i have change this:     

<description><?=htmlspecialchars($rssDescription)?></description>;

with:

<description><?=htmlspecialchars($rssDescription)?> < / description > ;

this is an error of this forum!

:D

Last edited by skyh4wk (19-07-2006 19:32:05)

ok! i have seen the error! ;D

thanks lot!

the last things... you have said that the rss.php passed 3 different validators... now i am on http://feedvalidator.org/ and the check program give me this warning:

line 6, column 69: Unexpected Text [help]

<description>Liceo Evangelista Torricelli di Roma</description>;

have you before this problem??

now your script is perfect! ;D

thanks lot for the help... you are a kind person!