RSS Issue - Broken?

[Dan~]

I've noticed this problem for ages so I went to investigate why, I thought maybe the RSS for Software url had changed, but it's completly broken, When I click RSS on the site I just get an error.

 

[madmatt]

Thread title edited to be more specific.

 

[zeke_mo]

I've noticed this problem for ages so I went to investigate why, I thought maybe the RSS for Software url had changed, but it's completly broken, When I click RSS on the site I just get an error.

I have always had this problem, everybody just things I'm crazy though:crosseyed:

 

[SPeedY_B]

Our RDF feed is crap.

Can't we just use the RDF for Klip's, and have a nice new sparkly (compliant) RSS 2.0 feed for everyone else?










*cough* it's all because vNews smells....

 

[X-Istence]

*cough* it's all because vNews smells....

This is why 😛.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Other sites using vNews don't seem to have the problems that we do with feeds.

What else could we use anyway?

 

[X-Istence]

Other sites using vNews don't seem to have the problems that we do with feeds.

What else could we use anyway?

I just wanted to get my two cents in 😛. I have no clue why other sites work fine, and we don't. As far as I know it works fine, as on my blog it is still in the side bar.

 

[Electronic Punk]

I have customised our feed, so don't blame vnews 😉
it displays more data than default and illegal characters often slip through.

 

[SPeedY_B]

But it's RDF format... who uses rdf?!

As I said before, would it not be possible to leave those feeds in place for the klip, and have a fully working, plain, compliant, no bullcrap, RSS2.0 feed for everyone else ?

 

[Electronic Punk]

Its not fully RSS2 now? 😱
Doesn't relate to that tho, its the silly utorrent think has that crazy u in it.

 

[Electronic Punk]

Here is the relevent code I need to add to:

 unset($news_data);
 
$getdata = query("SELECT news_news.id,catid,mainnews,commentcount,title,stickypost,name FROM news_news,news_category WHERE".iif($id != 0," (catid IN ($cat_ids)) AND")." (news_news.display = 1) AND (program = 0) AND news_category.id = news_news.catid ORDER BY stickypost DESC,time DESC LIMIT $backend_show");
 
while ($news = fetch_array($getdata)) {
if (isuserallowed($cat_arr[$news[catid]][allowview])) {
 
$news[title] = htmlentities($news[title]);
$news[poster] = htmlentities($news[poster]);
$news[time] = htmlentities(date($mobile_time,$news[time]-$time_offset));
 
$newsdescriptionlength = 500; // Length of the news to display before cutting off
$news[description] = iif(strlen($news[mainnews]) > $newsdescriptionlength,substr($news[mainnews],0,$newsdescriptionlength)."...",$news[mainnews]);
 
if ($news[stickypost] == 2) {
eval("\$news_data .= \"".returnpagebit("backend_xml_post")."\";");
} elseif ($news[stickypost] == 1) {
eval("\$sticky .= \"".returnpagebit("backend_xml_post")."\";");
} else {
eval("\$news_data .= \"".returnpagebit("backend_xml_post")."\";");
}
}
}
 
$sitename = htmlentities($sitename);
$homeurl = htmlentities($homeurl);
 
header("Content-Type: text/xml");
eval("echooutput(\"".returnpagebit("backend_xml")."\");");

i need to add something before or after this line:

$news[title] = htmlentities($news[title]);

that will strip weird characters out.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Its not fully RSS2 now? 😱

No.

1. Validate the feed
2. RSS 2 spec

 

[Electronic Punk]

Problem is solved anyway

 

[vern]

http://www.osnn.net/modules.php?modname=backend&action=rdf&id=1

^ That link is still broken. Other feeds for software, games, etc work fine though.

 

[SPeedY_B]

Works fine here.

 

[Electronic Punk]

Ok, sorted that - think I am gonna have to add the few bad characters as I see em. Should be alot easier to do now.