?Google Feed

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

http://www.villabali.com/bali-information/latest-bali-news.php
I cannot get ~~~ItemDescription~~~ to work.
Is this because the feed is atom?
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=bali&output=atom

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2661

Correct. The ATOM specification doesn't use the standard ItemDescription tags, so the script can't pull anything from it.

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

So is there any workaround?
Are all Google feeds = atom?
Meaning that this script cannot process any Google Feeds?

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2661

The script was only intended for use with feeds in the RSS 2.0 specification and can't translate anything that isn't written in that specification. If you're familiar enough with PHP, it is possible that you could recode the templates to work off of the ATOM specification, though.

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

I am having a lot of problems with this script now.
I did not in the past.

What is this page not showing the html references to images?
http://www.gajahminaresort.com/feedback.php
(ATOM again?)

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

Hello.

Is this problem your script?
Or my implementation?
Or Atom feed?

Please advise.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2661

With the output of http://www.gajahminaresort.com/feedback.php, what is the original feed that the script is translating from?

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

Tech Support wrote:

With the output of http://www.gajahminaresort.com/feedback.php, what is the original feed that the script is translating from?

$XMLFILE = "http://www.tripadvisor.com/Feeds-d602865-treviews.xml";
$TEMPLATE = "http://www.gajahminaresort.com/rss2template2.html";
$MAXITEMS = "10";
include("rss2html.php");
?>

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2661

What's odd is that it works fine with the standard template. For example, just to see what it would look like, I uploaded a test copy.

The output does show the images properly, so I'm thinking it's something to do with your web hosting provider/web server but I'm not entirely sure what. As you can see the line references the test script on our side and the rest of the variables are your template and your feed.

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

Not parsing the xml html code (escapes?) on my server and I do not know why. Is there a php setting that should active in php.ini? I can see no firewall rules being alerted.

Changed doc type to xhtml:
http://www.gajahminaresort.com/feedback1.php

However, like you example, my test works here:
http://www.mangotoo.com/feedback1.php
(different server)

Are you able to help me work out why the xml html is not being parsed correctly on my main server?

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2661

Ah! I think I've found it. The original charset value on your website is charset=iso-8859-1. If you can have that changed to UTF-8, the images should display properly.

webfeatus · Joined: 12 May 2008 Posts: 23

I tried all those options long ago.
Please check the source code in my 2 examples above.

Tech Support · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2661

Hmm... it would appear you are correct. When I was looking at http://www.gajahminaresort.com/, the encoding is in ISO but the encoding for http://www.gajahminaresort.com/feedback.php is in UTF-8. Unfortunately, I really don't know why your http://www.gajahminaresort.com/ web server won't display the images properly. You may want to speak with your webhosting provider or web server administrator about it.