Hi there,

We are currently using the Fireboard forum on our website:

www.physiotoday.com/index.php?option=com...amp;id=8&catid=4

We are having a problem with the RSS feed on the forum. When I subscribe to it nothing happens. There are no feeds appearing.

I have switched on the RSS feed option on the config file, but still no joy.

Is there something I should be changing?

Cheers,

Peter

Hi, we have absolutely the same problem, unfortunately no one has an idea?! Thanks, Tom

Hello All,

My original problem was like many others here. I had a blank line / space for the 1st line of my RSS Output. The XML declaration statement needs to be on the 1st line for it to validate correctly. I couldn't get rid of that pesky line. I made sure I didn't have any blanks at the end of my php files. I have had that before. I hacked/cut/pasted for a number of hours. Finally I just started cutting.


This is what I did to get mine to work correctly.

In /components/com_fireboard/sources/fb_rss.php do a search for this line:
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"" . $encoding[1] . "\"?>";

Delete it


To get the feed to play nice with IE7 find this line:
<!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">

Delete it


You might want to validate your RSS Feed over at feedvalidator.org first.

Then complete one of the line deletions and re-validate to see your progress. Delete the next line and re-validate. That is what I did to go after the offenders. The RSS Feed seems to work great without the XML declaration line. I have used it in a number of different readers with No Issues yet.

Have a good one,
tyhuls

If this works for you, shout it back on this thread.