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spudinsky · Resource Seeker

Can someone explain how to do this. I know you use the backend.php file somehow, but I do not understand the mechanics of setting it up.

Thank you

Evaders99 · Resource Master

backend.php automatically creates an RSS feed from your news. There is nothing you need to do. Users can put the URL to the backend.php file into their RSS reader and it should work

spudinsky · Resource Seeker

Thanks for responding....I now understand the mechanics....however, when I try to load backend.php, I get the follwowing error message:

Invalid xml declaration.
Line: 64 Character: 3

<xml>

I'm using Nuke 7.9 if that helps. Any suggestions?

spudinsky · Resource Seeker

I thought I would go ahead and post my backend.php just in case:

<php>sql_fetchrow($db->sql_query("SELECT catid FROM ".$prefix."_stories_cat WHERE title LIKE '%$cat%' LIMIT 1"));
if ($catid == "") {
$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, title, hometext FROM ".$prefix."_stories ORDER BY sid DESC LIMIT 10");
} else {
$catid = intval($catid);
$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, title, hometext FROM ".$prefix."_stories WHERE catid='$catid' ORDER BY sid DESC LIMIT 10");
}
} else {
$result = $db->sql_query("SELECT sid, title, hometext FROM ".$prefix."_stories ORDER BY sid DESC LIMIT 10");
}

echo "<xml>\n\n";
echo "<DOCTYPE>\n\n";
echo "<rss>\n\n";
echo "<channel>\n";
echo "<title>".htmlentities($sitename)."</title>\n";
echo "<link>$nukeurl</link>\n";
echo "<description>".htmlentities($backend_title)."</description>\n";
echo "<language>$backend_language</language>\n\n";

while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
$rsid = intval($row['sid']);
$rtitle = filter($row['title'], "nohtml");
$rtext = filter($row['hometext']);
echo "<item>\n";
echo "<title>".htmlentities($rtitle)."</title>\n";
echo "<link>$nukeurl/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=$rsid</link>\n";
echo "<description>".htmlentities($rtext)."</description>\n";
echo "</item>\n\n";
}
echo "</channel>\n";
echo "</rss>";

?>

Evaders99 · Resource Master

Better to point us to your actual URL to rss.php
It is the data that is usually the problem and not the rss.php code itself

spudinsky · Resource Seeker

here is the url:

www.politibyte.com/backend.php

I also have a file called www.politibyte.com/backend20.php

thanks,

Evaders99 · Resource Master

One of your files must have a bunch of blank lines before the beginning <?php tag. It's saying that the line starting

spudinsky · Resource Seeker

when you say one of your files, which files are you talking about.....what files does the backend.php file look at?

kguske · Resource Seeker

Look at your mainfile.php and config.php files.

Also, it won't solve this problem, but you may want to check out my nukeFEED module that allows you to generate many types of feeds (e.g. last 7 news items from this news category, most popular 20 downloads, etc.)

bbaros · Resourceful

I've Modified all the Backends to allow you to RSS out any news, forums and even Weblinks

On this site of NukeResources
Look up the keyword

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