RSS Feed dissappeared Please Help [Resolved]

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MarkG Reply #1, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

I had set up my rss feed following the guide here http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources.Building+a+RSS+feed and it was working yesterday but today I just get a blank screen when viewing the page and a Page Not found for the feed link.

Any ideas?

Chunk

<item>
<title>[[+pagetitle:htmlent]]</title>
<link>[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
<description>[[+tv.blog-summary]]</description>
<pubDate>[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %R:%S %Z`]]</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.makethemclick.com.au/?id=[[+id]]</guid>
</item>

Page

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
    <title>[[*pagetitle]]</title>
    
<link>[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</link>
    <description>[[*tv.blog-summary:cdata]]</description>
    <language>[[++cultureKey]]</language>
    <ttl>120</ttl>
    <atom:link href="[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
[[getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`3`
  &depth=`3`
  &limit=`10`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &showHidden=`1`
  &hideContainers=`1`
]]
</channel>
</rss>

Thanks [ed. note: markg last edited this post 13 years, 7 months ago.]

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Friso Reply #2, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hi

what kind of response did you get?

a 404 or a 500.

Mostly if you get a blank screen there is an error in the php part.

Did you try this in the address-bar chrome or firefox?
view-source:http://the-url-you-want-to-see.com/my-page/i-want-to-view
If this is also blank there is definitely an error in the php part of the site.

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MarkG Reply #3, 13 years, 7 months ago

Frisco,

ok weird things are happening.

I'm using Firefox.

On Sunday the feed worked, on Monday I got a blank page, and today it is trying to download the feed.

Three different results in three days huh

Anyway I tried the link in Chrome and I at least got the xml version of the feed.

If I try it in MSIE I get yet another error message

Reference to undefined entity 'rsquo'.
Line: 29 Character: 279

ugh

Also interesting is my legacy feedburner account is picking up the feed ok but Google Reader can't find it.

Beats me as to what the hell's going on. [ed. note: markg last edited this post 13 years, 7 months ago.]

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MarkG Reply #4, 13 years, 7 months ago

Ok,

FF is no longer trying to download the file and is back to a blank page. When i look at the source code there is nothing there.

Chrome shows the xml structure with the correct content and MSIE shows this error message, which basically means it doesn't like apostrophes in the content.

Reference to undefined entity 'rsquo'.
Line: 37 Character: 279

The key part being members&rsquo

And feedburner still works.

??? [ed. note: markg last edited this post 13 years, 7 months ago.]

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Friso Reply #5, 13 years, 7 months ago

Ah. there is a problem with your html entities.
Also try a html entities on your tv.blog-summary. and cdata the the description

<item>
<title>[[+pagetitle:htmlent]]</title>
<link>[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
<description><![CDATA[ [[+tv.blog-summary:htmlent]] ]]</description>
<pubDate>[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %R:%S %Z`]]</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.makethemclick.com.au/?id=[[+id]]</guid>
</item>

Also use includeTV'sList makes it a bit faster

[[getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`3`
  &depth=`3`
  &limit=`10`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
&includeTVList=`blog-summary`
  &showHidden=`1`
  &hideContainers=`1`
]]

You replied when is was typing.

For the ' problem make an output filter that escapes them.

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MarkG Reply #6, 13 years, 7 months ago

AHA

bl@#dy apostrophes. After all that!

I limited the posts to just one, thereby excluding the one with correct grammar, and hey presto the feed is working again.

However, it's not really an acceptable solution as correct grammar is obviously a necessity.

Does anybody know why punctuation in the content would be causing this problem?

Is there a System setting that could be putting it off?

PS Frisco, you must have been typing the same time as me. I'll checkout your suggestions and get back to you. I had noticed my original code had got mangled somehow, maybe with a rich text editor. (It's set to off but the damage may have already been done.)

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MarkG Reply #7, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hmmm,

at some stage I went back to the original tute instructions and re did the code.

What I now have is this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
  <title>[[*pagetitle:htmlent]]</title>
    <link>[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</link>

    <description>[[*tv.blog-summary:cdata]]</description>
    <language>[[++cultureKey]]</language>
    <ttl>120</ttl>
    <atom:link href="[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
[[getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`3`
  &depth=`2`
  &limit=`1`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &includeTVList=`blog-summary`
  &showHidden=`0`
  &hideContainers=`1`
]]
</channel>
</rss>

It works apart from not accepting any apostrophes in the blog summary content.

I'll have to have another look at it in the morning.

Thanks so far.

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MarkG Reply #8, 13 years, 7 months ago

ok,

after endlessly adjusting and redoing the code I have almost got it functioning. There is still an issue related to it not liking things like apostrophes and dashes in the content title, but otherwise it's working.

That is, it pulls the content and displays it ok, unless there's a dash or apostrophe in the title.

Not sure why that would be but if anybody can explain it, thanks.

Here's what the code looks like now.

The feed page and call:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<channel>
  <title>[[*pagetitle]]</title>
    <link>[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</link>
    <description>[[*tv.blog-summary:cdata]]</description>
    <language>[[++cultureKey]]</language>
    <ttl>120</ttl>
    <atom:link href="[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
[[getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`3`
  &depth=`2`
  &limit=`4`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &showHidden=`0`
  &hideContainers=`1`
]]
</channel>
</rss>

The chunk

<item>
<title>[[+pagetitle:htmlent]]</title>
<link>[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
<link>[[~[[+id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</link>
<description>[[+tv.blog-summary:cdata]]</description>
<pubDate>[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %R:%S %Z`]]</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.makethemclick.com.au/?id=[[+id]]</guid>
</item>

I tried the chunk Frisco's chunk but it just came out blank.

So a little progress at least.

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designcouch Reply #9, 13 years, 7 months ago

I know it's a little late in the game to try and switch, but is there any reason you don't just use the Articles addon? It comes pre-packaged with a nearly flawless (and endlessly customizable) working RSS feed. I'm currently using it on half a dozen sites with NO issues whatsoever. I can see by your placeholders that you're using Revolution, so it should be a quick thing to install and import your existing Resources into Articles.

If that isn't for you, you may try calling getResources uncached, and including the &processTVs parameter.

[[!getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`3`
  &depth=`2`
  &limit=`4`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &processTVs=`1`
  &showHidden=`0`
  &hideContainers=`1`
]]

vs.

[[getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`3`
  &depth=`2`
  &limit=`4`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &showHidden=`0`
  &hideContainers=`1`
]]

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MarkG Reply #10, 13 years, 7 months ago

Jesse,

short answer: Articles doesn't do categories.

Long answer: I'm recreating an existing Evo blog on Revo, and after looking at many other posts and experimenting with Articles it was just easier and quicker to do it this way.

If I was starting from scratch I would have probably gone with Articles.

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