Hi !

RSS feed does not work for me. Either Thunderbird or iGoogle complain the rss feed is not valid.

I tried passing my rss url to feedvalidator.org and got the following errors :


Sorry

This feed does not validate.

* 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 7-9: invalid data (maybe a high-bit character?)
* line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: :1:0: syntax error

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.

* Feeds should not be served with the "text/html" media type


I've tried many solutions posted here on the forum, none of them are working :
- change fb_rss.php : seems to be already integrated to FB 1.0.4
- modify fireboard.php to add ITEMID: seems to be already integrated to FB 1.0.4
- FBFeed 1.2 : does not work with FB 1.0.4

TIA for help,

Arnaud

I've tried many solutions posted here on the forum, none of them are working :
- change fb_rss.php : seems to be already integrated to FB 1.0.4
- modify fireboard.php to add ITEMID: seems to be already integrated to FB 1.0.4
- FBFeed 1.2 : does not work with FB 1.0.4

So have I. And I canīt get it to work. A solution that works for me (and You) would be great.
I Use Joomla 1.XX
Living in Sweden, using UTF8
And the problem appears on all operatingsystem at client.

RSS feed is truly not working. Please fix this.

I am Using the 1.04 FB and Default EX template on Joomla 1.5.3

V.

I can make mine work with iGoogle, but not with the IE7 browser default.

has there been a solution or timeline for this problem yet on how to fix the rss feeder or remove it off the bottom of the forum

nice feature if it works imo

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.