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Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Hi, I have successfully implemented rss2html on a client site, and am trying to implement on another.

I am having no success -- returning gobbldeygook:

http://www.bcgoncology.com/testfeed.html

I tried changing the meta-tag to match encoding (tried bother utf and iso) per similar posts, but to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 804

Could you possibly post links to the souce feed, and the template file you are using, so we can take a closer look?

Thanks.

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

template:

http://www.bcgoncology.com/feed/template_test.html

feed:

http://www.connotea.org/rss/tag/biotechnology

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 804

I ran your feed and template through rss2html.php and it looks fine. Here is the link I used:

http://www.rss2html.com/public/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://www.connotea.org/rss/tag/biotechnology&TEMPLATE=http://www.bcgoncology.com/feed/template_test.html

It looks like the problem may be with the way you are inserting it into your existing webpage, or something like that.

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks,

Below is my code, simplified and moved into same directory as the feed:

http://www.bcgoncology.com/feed/testfeed.html

I see another post, for which I don't see a resolution, where the person is using the same host (aplus.net) and having the same problem.

I don't see how else to call from an html file -- could problem be w/ htaccess and parsing html/php etc?

I have same code on another site (different host) and works fine:

http://www.4adi.com

Weird!

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Phoenix AZ Bladder Cancer and Genitourinary Oncology Physician - BCGOncology

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 804

Instead of:

try:

The first version may just be including the contents of the .php file (the source code), instead of actually running it and including the output.

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Tried it, that didn't work either.

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Ok, I get an error when I try to open feed.php:

Fatal error: Unknown function: curl_init() in /home/u1/d414mm/html/feed/feed.php on line 576

does this help at all?

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 648

monkeydog wrote:

Ok, I get an error when I try to open feed.php:

Fatal error: Unknown function: curl_init() in /home/u1/d414mm/html/feed/feed.php on line 576

does this help at all?

That says your server for some reason wasn't compiled with cURL support. Search for $useFopenURL = 0; and change it to $useFopenURL = 1;

Jim

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Hi, sorry for the delay in responding. I tried changing to fopen, and I get the following error:

"Unable to open RSS Feed"

Oy!

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 648

monkeydog wrote:

Hi, sorry for the delay in responding. I tried changing to fopen, and I get the following error:

"Unable to open RSS Feed"

Oy!

Well then lets go back and start at step #1. Try rss2html.php?buildURL and make sure the feed can be fetched.

Jim

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

Hi Jim, thanks so much for your help, but still not working.

Yes, it can be fetched.

There is another thread on this forum with the same problem I am having (which is, code works fine on other sites, but not on a site hosted by aplus.net).

http://www.feedforall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1034

Was this one ever resolved?

Thanks,

Don

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 648

monkeydog wrote:

Hi Jim, thanks so much for your help, but still not working.

Yes, it can be fetched.

There is another thread on this forum with the same problem I am having (which is, code works fine on other sites, but not on a site hosted by aplus.net).

http://www.feedforall.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1034

Was this one ever resolved?

Thanks,

Don

I don't see a URL in your previous posts, can you post the URL of a feed that causes this. So I have it for testing.

Jim

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 12

www.bcgoncology.com/feed/feed.php

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 648

monkeydog wrote:

www.bcgoncology.com/feed/feed.php

That is the URL for the XML feed you are trying to fetch?