Adding custom RSS to home page
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I wanted to create a custom page and for content display the latest posts as headlines with a summary. But I wanted to customize the look so I loaded these using some code to display the content from the site’s RSS feed rather than use a widget. I worked on this over a couple of days and had everything looking just the way I liked. But then when I visited the site, the RSS load was no loger working and giving the error… “failed to open stream – function.DOMDocument-load at https://www.site.com/feed/”
https://www.site.com/feed/ was working ok yesterday and opening that link in a browser works ok. But my script can no longer access the feed directly!
I did resolve the problem for the time being by using FeedBurner. That’s right, FeedBurner can access that link and publish my feed, and I can use the same script to open my RSS feed from Feedburner, but it doesn’t work when I open it from my site directly.
<?php $rss = new DOMDocument(); $rss->load('https://feeds.feedburner.com/Addmine'); $feed = array(); foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) { $item = array ( 'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue, 'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue, 'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue, 'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue, ); array_push($feed, $item); } $limit = 5; for($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) { $title = str_replace(' & ', ' & ', $feed[$x]['title']); $link = $feed[$x]['link']; $description = $feed[$x]['desc']; $date = date('l F d, Y', strtotime($feed[$x]['date'])); echo '<div style="padding: 3px; padding-left: 25px;">'; $shorttitle = substr($title, 0, 70); echo '<strong><a href="'.$link.'" title="'.$shorttitle.'">'.$shorttitle.'</a></strong>'; echo '</div><div style="padding: 3px; padding-left: 25px;">'.$description.'</div>'; } ?>
This code loads my RSS via FeedBurner but it no longer loads the same feed from https://www.addmine.coma.au/feed/ … even though it’s the same feed!
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